Australia unveils opening ceremony uniforms for Tokyo

The Australian Olympic Team Opening Ceremony uniform is unveiled in Sydney

Australia unveiled the uniforms their athletes will wear at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, a milestone that world champion canoeist Jessica Fox said made her third trip to the Games ‘a bit more real’. The opening ceremony is scheduled for July 23 but it is certain to be very different to previous Olympics because of Covid-19 health protocols, and with athletes arriving in Japan closer to their events than usual. The uniforms, designed by Sportscraft, were unveiled at an ocean pool in the Sydney suburbs built in 1907 by the father of Mina Wylie, who won a swimming silver at the 1912 Stockholm Games as one of Australia's first female Olympians. ‘I think it's the milestone moment of revealing the uniform and it kind of makes everything a bit more real,’ said Fox, who won K1 canoeing silver in London in 2012 and a bronze four years later in Rio.