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The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and Seven West Media, host broadcaster of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, have joined forces to support the Commonwealth Government’s current “Arm Yourself” Covid-19 vaccination campaign.
Athletes currently competing at the Tokyo
The Australian Olympic Team has announced that that triple Olympian Aron Baynes has been ruled out for the remainder of the Boomers Olympic competition due to a neck injury.
Baynes sustained the injury during the game
Across the nation, the Australian Olympic Committee is launching the first ever Green & Gold Day on the eve of super Saturday of the Tokyo Olympic Games. It’s a day designed to unite our nation behind our sporting colours and celebrate together.
Green and Gold Day is for everyone. The
Australian Pistol athlete Elena Galiabovitch has described carrying the Olympic flag at the Tokyo Olympic Games Opening Ceremony tonight as the greatest honour in her sporting career.
Representing Oceania, Galiabovitch was one of
The Australian Olympic Committee, Facebook and Instagram today launch Green and Gold FaceFilters and Profile Frames to drive support for our Australian athletes in Tokyo.
Through Facebook and Instagram, fans will have
The Australian Olympic Committee has been informed that Edwina Tops-Alexander and Katie Laurie will be permitted to compete in the Individual Jumping competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Chef de Mission, Ian Chesterman, has welcomed
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has thanked the Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for their decision to award Brisbane, Queensland the right to host the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032.
Today’s vote at the IOC Session in Tokyo ensures
The Australian Olympic Team Chef de Mission Ian Chesterman has announced that the Australian Olympic Team Selection Committee met this afternoon and has terminated Equestrian athlete Jamie Kermond’s membership of the Tokyo 2020 Australian Olympic Team.
That determination was based on:
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Brisbane, Friday 23 July 2021
Brisbane has a front-row seat for the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics Games on Friday 23 July as Olympics Live presented by Westpac kicks off two weeks of fun and entertainment at Riverside Green, South Bank.
The live site will be the ideal place to watch the
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The Australian Olympic Team has experienced its biggest influx of the Tokyo Olympic Games on Saturday with 340 athletes, staff and officials arriving into the Australian Team allotment.
The big lift saw athletes arrive via a Qantas
The Australian Olympic Committee has announced three athletes to the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo.
Max Purcell (Tennis), Nathan Lawson (Rugby 7s) and Georgia Wilson (Hockey) will make their Olympic debuts following Alex de Minaur’s withdrawal and injury withdrawals of Henry
Australian Olympic Committee CEO Matt Carroll, AM has paid tribute to outgoing Paralympics Australia CEO Lynne Anderson for her passion and commitment to promoting the interests of para-athletes. Ms Anderson is stepping down from her current role at the end of 2021.
“During her six years at the helm of Paralympics
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has announced that Opals player Liz Cambage has withdrawn from the Australian Olympic Team to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Chef de Mission Ian Chesterman says he
The Australian Olympic Committee has expressed sympathy for Australian tennis player Alex de Minaur following news of a second positive PCR test conducted prior to his departure for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Alex undertook both the 96-hour and 72-hour
West Australian Luke Durbridge has been named to make his Olympic debut, replacing Jack Haig who suffered an injury in the Tour de France.
Durbridge is a five-time national champion across Time Trial and Road Race, and the 30-year-old has also claimed stage victories in the Giro d’Italia (Team Time Trial wins in 2014 and 2015) and stage and overall wins at the 2021 Festival of Cycling in Adelaide.
Currently riding the Tour de France, the 30-year-
BRISBANE LIVE SITE WILL OPEN FOR 2032 OLYMPIC DECISION
24 LIVE SITE EVENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
With only six days to go until Brisbane finds out if it will host the XXXV Olympic Games in 2032 and just eight days until the Tokyo Olympic Games begin on 23 July 2021, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and the Queensland Government today confirmed Brisbane will host a free, outdoor live site at South Bank for people to share in the spirit of the Games.
Olympics Live presented by Westpac will operate
Amendments to the IOC’s athlete replacement rules, along with other Team changes, has enabled the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) to select an additional 16 athletes, making it Australia’s largest ever Olympic Team for a Games on foreign soil.
The Australian Team now stands at 488,
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) will bring the Olympic spirit to remote communities in the Torres Strait and Cape York during the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The partnership reflects both the AOC and RAAF
Cyclist Lucas Hamilton and steeplechaser Matthew Clarke have been selected for the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo by the Australian Olympic Committee, increasing the overall team size to 474.
Road cyclist Hamilton, currently riding the Tour de France, replaces Cameron Meyer who withdrew from
The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has unveiled the Australian Olympians’ Oath ahead of the announcement of the two flagbearers for the Australian Olympic Team for the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony.
The Australian Olympians’ Oath is an initiative of the
Swimmer Cate Campbell and basketballer Patty Mills have been named as Flag Bearers for the Australian Olympic Team at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to be held on July 23rd.
Creating Australian Olympic history, Patty Mills becomes the first Indigenous Australian to carry the
A record number of women on an away Team and a record number of Indigenous athletes will represent Australia at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games which begin in just 18 days.
The Australian Olympic Committee has announced a Team of 472 athletes to compete in Tokyo, consisting of 254 women and 218 men, plus a record 16 First Nations athletes competing across eleven sports.
This is the biggest number of women ever on
The Australian Olympic Committee has announced the 12-strong Australian Olympic Basketball Team for Tokyo, featuring two four-time Olympians Patty Mills and Joe Ingles and seven Olympic debutants.
Mills and Ingles fourth Olympics is behind only Andrew Gaze’s five Games for an Australian basketballer, while Matthew Dellavedova and Aron Baynes return for their third Games and Chris Goulding makes his second Olympic Team.
Olympic debutants Dante Exum, Joshua Green, Nick
The Australian Olympic Committee has selected an 11-strong Gymnastics team for Tokyo, almost matching Australia’s largest ever Gymnastics squad of 12 set the last time Tokyo hosted the Games.
With all 11 athletes making their Olympic debut, Emily Whitehead, Tyson Bull and Georgia Godwin will compete in Artistic, Lidiia Iakovleva in Rhythmic individual, Emily Abbott, Alexandra Aristoteli, Alannah Matthews, Himeka Onoda and Felicity White make up the Rhythmic team, with Dominic Clarke and Jessica Pickering to compete in Trampoline.
Iakovleva and Pickering both competed for Australia
Chris McHugh and Damien Schumann will be Australia’s first male Olympic beach volleyballers since 2008, with the pair selected by the Australian Olympic Committee today.
Schumann and McHugh join women’s pair Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy to complete the four-strong Australian Beach Volleyball team for Tokyo.
Coached by Andrew Schacht, Australia’s last male
The Australian Olympic Committee have announced 24 athletes to the Australian Olympic team for Tokyo for Rugby Sevens.
Sharni Williams and Shannon Parry will co-captain the defending Olympic champion women’s side, while Nick Malouf will captain the men’s team.
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With 205 World Series caps, the women’s side sees
The Australian Olympic Committee has selected artistic swimmer Rayna Buckle to the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo 2020, replacing Hannah Cross who has retired from the sport.
The 20-year-old Sydneysider will compete in the eight-person Teams event.
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Australian Chef de Mission for Tokyo 2020 Ian Chesterman welcomed Rayna to the Team.
“Congratulations Rayna on being named to the Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo,” Mr Chesterman said.
“This has been a very long and difficult
The Australian Olympic Committee has named Aoife Coughlan and Katharina Haecker as the two judokas on to Australian Olympic Team for Tokyo.
With Judo founded in Japan, the two fighters will return to the spiritual birthplace of the sport, and will compete in Nippon Budokan – the same venue Judo made its Olympic debut in 1964.
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Rio Olympian Haecker returns for her second
The Australian Olympic Committee has named a five strong Australian Olympic Skateboarding Team for Tokyo, becoming the first Australian Olympic skaters as the sport makes its debut in Tokyo.
Poppy Starr Olsen, Keegan Palmer and Kieran
The Australian Olympic Committee has announced the four-person Golf Team for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with Rio Olympian Minjee Lee named for her second Games, and Hannah Green, Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith to make their Olympic debut.
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The golfers secured their spots for Tokyo with their world ranking, with Lee (14), Green (15),
