Paris Olympics 2024: The Matildas, the Boomers and many more Australian teams bid for Olympic gold

Ten groups will characterize Australia throughout six sports activities on the Paris Olympic Video games, and plenty of of them will take with them vital hopes of a spot on the rostrum.

From the soccer subject to the water polo swimming pools, Aussie groups are hoping to make their mark on the Video games once more this 12 months.

The large names are on present

Having taken Australia on a magical trip via final 12 months’s Girls’s World Cup, the Matildas are able to deal with their subsequent main problem at these Olympic Video games.

The Olympics is a large deal for girls’s soccer, as not like the boys’s version there is no such thing as a age restrict imposed on squads and nations invariably choose the perfect gamers doable.

The Matildas are depleted however nonetheless a robust medal probability in Paris.(Matildas.)

Harm may need depleted the Matildas for this marketing campaign, however their medal hopes stay robust.

The Tillies kick off their Video games towards Germany in Marseille within the wee hours of Friday July 26 (AEST), earlier than they head to Good to play Zambia on Monday July 29 (AEST).

ABC Sport might be stay running a blog daily of the Paris Olympics from July 27

The group stage wraps up with a large conflict towards the US on Thursday August 1 (AEST) again in Marseille. From there, the knockout levels await as the trail to the ultimate at Parc de Princes turns into clearer.

The Boomers, our males’s basketball staff, are hoping to prime their bronze medal efficiency in Tokyo however must navigate the dreaded ‘group of dying’ first.

The Boomers have ambitions of bettering their bronze from Tokyo.(Getty Pictures: Kelly Defina)

The Aussies will face Spain, Canada and Greece of their pool video games earlier than they even have to fret about going through the would possibly of the US staff.

The Opals, the number-three-ranked staff on the earth, will face Nigeria, Canada and France on the ladies’s aspect of the draw and like their male compatriots can have the rostrum firmly of their sights.

Medals on the menu

Each our males’s and ladies’s hockey groups are ranked inside the highest 5 on the earth, and are sensible probabilities to medal in Paris.

Eddie Ockenden will lead the Kookaburras on the Olympic Video games for the fifth time, as they tackle Argentina, Belgium, India, Eire and New Zealand in group stage matches.

The Hockeyroos might be hoping to place some choice drama behind them as they bid for Olympic gold, however they too face a troublesome group.

The Hockeyroos are prepared for a run at their first medal since Sydney.(Getty Pictures: David Rogers)

Argentina, Nice Britain, Spain, USA and South Africa all await in Paris because the Hockeyroos look to say Australia’s first Olympic medal in ladies’s hockey since they claimed gold in Sydney.

Australia might be nicely represented within the rugby sevens competitors too, with medals on the radar once more for each the boys and the ladies.

Pool video games for the boys start within the days earlier than the Opening Ceremony, with medal matches scheduled on the primary full night time of competitors, giving our males the possibility to be the primary Australians to say a medal on the 2024 Paris Video games.

The ladies will not have to attend for much longer, as their pool video games get underway on day two of competitors with medal matches happening within the early hours of Monday July 29 (AEST).

The opposite Aussies to observe

Australia has once more certified in each the boys’s and ladies’s divisions for the water polo.

The boys’s staff — the Sharks — have drawn Serbia, France, Hungary, Japan and Spain in group B.

The ladies’s staff — the Stingers — will face Hungary, Canada, China and the Netherlands in group A. Development to the knockout levels will powerful for either side on this most gruelling of water sports activities.

The Sharks, Australia’s males’s water polo staff, faces a troublesome group in Paris.(AAP Picture: Dean Lewins)

And for the primary time ever, Australia can have illustration within the 3×3 basketball with our Gangurrus qualifying for the ladies’s competitors in Paris.

This fast-paced basketball adaptation was first launched to the Olympics in Tokyo, and sees two groups of three face off in a half-court with a shortened shot clock and barely altered ball.

The Gangurrus gained their option to the Olympics via a qualifying match in Japan and might be hoping to make a splash on debut in Paris.