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Australia olympic games tokyo 202011/25/2023 ![]() “I always come back to three different things at a high level,” he says. But the high performance head honcho points to three factors that he says contributed to Australian success in Tokyo. A bold relay changeover from anchor swimmer Cate Campbell (0.03s) was the difference between gold and silver (her American opponent, Abbey Weitzeil, took 0.38s to leave the blocks).įor this reason, Conde says Australia’s golden run in Tokyo is not “explained by one thing”. In the women’s 4x100m medley swimming relay, for example, Australia beat the United States to the wall in less than two tenths of a second. Photograph: DPPI/Photo Kishimoto/LiveMedia/REX/ShutterstockĮxpected or not, Australia’s gold rush in Tokyo has been remarkable, particularly when the difference between Olympic success and failure can be miniscule. Keegan Palmer won Australia’s 17th medal at Tokyo 2020 in the men’s park skateboarding. “It’s within the range of projections that we had.” The AIS no longer makes its projections public ahead of the Games, scrapping that transparency after Rio on the basis it put unnecessary pressure on athletes. Speaking to the Guardian from Australia – Conde did not travel to Tokyo – the AIS director says the nation’s medal performance was in line with expectations. This included both wider structural reform and small details, like providing a dedicated coffee cart in the Australian section of the athletes’ village. Government funding levels have largely stayed the same ( at about A$250m annually), although changes to its distribution and timing, and some additional money for development pathways and athlete wellbeing, have been welcomed by sporting peak bodies.īut although a significant funding boost was not on the cards, Conde, Carroll and their counterparts have worked tirelessly to ensure there would be no repeat of Rio. The disappointment in Rio saw Conde appointed to the AIS and a number of sports undertake governance and high-performance shake-ups. When you haven’t gone well, you go back to square one and get stuck into it, and that’s what they have done.” They’ve been striving to improve and they have improved. “Off the back of Rio, the sports and the athletes dug deep – they looked back at their performance and wanted to improve. “No one likes not doing their best,” says Australian Olympic Committee chief executive, Matt Carroll. One is people, two is system and three is attention to detail AIS director Peter Conde The result led to much soul-searching within Australia’s multi-layered high-performance system. ![]() They did not succeed – Australia’s 10th-place finish was the worst since 1992. ![]() After bumper medal hauls at Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, a dip in performance at London 2012 meant Australia’s athletes had travelled to Rio in 2016 hoping to arrest a slide down the table. ![]()
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