Surpassing the nation’s record of 17 golds would not be a surprise at these Games but talk of medal tallies is being hosed down inside the camp
Australia's athletes take part in a beach volleyball training session at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Australia's athletes take part in a beach volleyball training session at Eiffel Tower Stadium in Paris ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
As a former athlete, Meares has sought to temper medal mania, and encourage an appreciation of the individual goals of each of her athletes. “Our best result in terms of medal tallies has been 17 gold medals. We’ll have a team of 460 in Paris, I just can’t accept that 443 athletes won’t be deemed as successful if they don’t come home with a gold medal,” she told Guardian Australia in the lead-up to the Games. “But those gold medals are really important as well.
Zac Stubblety-Cook, the Tokyo 200m breaststroke gold medal winner, said that seeing the Paris pool this week has been an important milestone. “You spend the last three years looking to Paris and looking to these Games, and then all of a sudden it’s right in front of you,” he said ahead of the first events on the weekend. “It’s not necessarily a feeling of pressure, but more excitement and rising to that occasion.
Gold medals in Tokyo were won in canoeing, cycling, rowing, sailing and skateboarding, and Australia remains in contention again in all of those sports.
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