The majority of Australia's Olympic team, including numerous South Coast talents, has now arrived in Tokyo as they finalise preparations for their respective gold medal assaults at the Games.
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Saturday saw Australia experience its biggest influx of the Tokyo Olympic Games, with 340 athletes, staff and officials arriving - with the 219 of that number flying in via charter flights from Brisbane and Cairns.
Teams to arrive via those charter flights include swimming, led by former Shoalhaven-based coach Rohan Taylor, hockey, featuring Gerringong's Grace Stewart, rowing, women's water polo, men's beach volleyball, badminton, table tennis and weightlifting.
Others to land in the Japanese capital on Saturday include Minnamurra's Kieran Woolley and his skateboarding team, the road cyclists, artistic gymnasts and tennis stars, all via international flights - with the women's beach volleyball team coming in via an international commercial flight.
While the women's football team and football squad arrived via a domestic flight and bus respectively.
Then on Sunday athletes from rugby, men's water polo, athletics (such as Nowra Athletics Club's Jye Edwards), tennis, triathlon, shooting, boxing and diving entered the country.
Chef de mission Ian Chesterman said the team has arrived to a warm welcome and an Australian allotment designed to create a home away from home atmosphere.
"An enormous amount of work has gone into creating a space for our athletes that is welcoming and friendly as well as meeting those practical needs to promote their best performance - the place is now buzzing," Chesterman said.
"We have been very conscious that while these Games are different, the experience in our allotment had to be positive.
"Each team receives a full briefing on arrival, including details of our COVID counter-measures that are particular to our space, on top of the playbook protocols."
In all, there are now close to 300 Australian athletes on the ground in Japan, with the remaining expected to arrive in the coming days.
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