SYDNEY – Australia will take 472 athletes to the Tokyo Olympics, the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) announced on Monday, the country’s second-largest team for an overseas Summer Games.
Some of the 254 women and 218 men who will compete in 33 sports are already in Japan making their final preparations for the Games, which were postponed for a year because of the global health crisis.
The new coronavirus has severely disrupted qualifying and Australia’s traveling contingent–second in size only to the 482 who went to Athens in 2004–might have been larger but for opportunities denied by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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