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Tokyo-bound: Australia To Send 472 Athletes To The Olympics 

Australia will send 472 competitors to the Tokyo Olympics, the second-biggest group sent abroad by the country since the 2004 Athens Games. 

The Australian Olympic Committee said Monday that 254 ladies and 218 men would head out to Tokyo for the games which start July 23. At Athens, Australia sent 482 competitors. 온라인카지노

No. 1-positioned ladies' tennis player Ash Barty will be one of 16 Indigenous competitors in the Australian group. 

The Australians will contend in 33 games, remembering handling competitors for four new Olympic games — karate, skating, sport climbing and surfing. 

Group culinary expert de mission Ian Chesterman said the chose competitors had persevered through the vulnerabilities of a one-year delay, disturbed rivalries, qualifying openings and admittance to preparing settings. 

"This has been incredibly hard for each competitor and each has their own individual story to tell. Yet, they have made it. Through their assurance and responsibility, they are going to Tokyo," Chesterman said. 

"The AOC has discussed not setting decoration targets and putting pointless assumptions on these competitors. Given the occasions of the previous year and a half, this has been the right way. Getting to the beginning line has been so troublesome." 

The Australian group will have its most elevated ever level of female competitors at the Olympics — 53.5%, with the past high 50.90% at Rio de Janeiro in 2016. 

The group will likewise highlight its most established ever Australian Olympic contender — 66-year-old Mary Hanna in equestrian (dressage). Equestrian Andrew Hoy, who contends in eventing, will be at his eighth Olympics. 

Australia's greatest group will be games, with 63 contenders.