Tokyo 2020: Australia to ship 472 athletes to the Olympics

Australia will take 472 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) introduced on Monday, the nation’s second-largest staff for an abroad Summer Games. Ash Barty shall be one in all 16 Indigenous athletes on the Australian staff. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSAustralia will ship 472 athletes to the Tokyo OlympicsAustralia’s greatest staff shall be athletics, with 63 rivalsAsh Barty headlines 16 Aboriginal athletes within the staff for TokyoAustralia will ship 472 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics, the second-largest staff despatched abroad by the nation for the reason that 2004 Athens Games. The Australian Olympic Committee mentioned Monday that 254 girls and 218 males would journey to Tokyo for the video games which start July 23. At Athens, Australia despatched 482 athletes.

No. 1-ranked girls’s tennis participant Ash Barty shall be one in all 16 Indigenous athletes on the Australian staff.The Australians will compete in 33 sports activities, together with fielding athletes in 4 new Olympic sports activities — karate, skateboarding, sport climbing and browsing.Team chef de mission Ian Chesterman mentioned the chosen athletes had endured the uncertainties of a one-year postponement, disrupted competitions, qualifying alternatives and entry to coaching venues.“This has been extraordinarily tough for each athlete and every has their very own particular person story to inform. But they’ve made it. Through their willpower and dedication, they’ll Tokyo,” Chesterman said.“The AOC has talked about not setting medal targets and placing unhelpful expectations on these athletes. Given the events of the past 18 months, this has been the correct path. Getting to the start line has been so difficult.”The Australian staff could have its highest-ever proportion of feminine athletes on the Olympics — 53.5%, with the earlier excessive of fifty.90% at Rio de Janeiro in 2016.The staff can even function its oldest-ever Australian Olympic competitor — 66-year-old Mary Hanna in equestrian (dressage). Equestrian Andrew Hoy, who competes in eventing, shall be at his eighth Olympics.Australia’s greatest staff shall be athletics, with 63 rivals.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.