Inside look as Australian athletes prepare for games

Australian athletes have provided a behind-the-scenes look at life in Paris as they prepare for the 2024 Olympic Games.

Athletes began arriving in the village on Thursday led by the men’s sevens rugby team, the Hockeyroos and the Kookaburras.

Tennis star Daria Saville shared a clip of her arriving in Paris on Friday before she checked into the Athletes’ Village.

In the clip she revealed she was escorted by Olympic staff from the airport to the Athletes’ Village.

“I can’t believe I’m checking into the Olympic village today,” she said in the clip.

The Australian Team will take up residence in the purpose-built Athletes’ Village, 7km north from the centre of Paris, throughout the Games.

The windows of the lower floors sport images of some Australia’s most notorious landscapes including Uluru and the Great Barrier Reef, while banners reading: Australia, Merci Paris and Allez Aus, don the upper balconies.

Team Australia has a little café complete with a barista ready to brew athletes their perfect beverage to ensure they are sufficiently caffeinated.

The operations team has been in Paris for several weeks working to unpack nine shipping containers of uniforms and five containers of general items.

They have prepared 600 bags of uniforms for athletes and officials, along with creating an environment team for members to relax including a yarning circle, Woolworths performance pantry, Harvey Norman lounge space, recovery spaces and a gym.

Australia’s nearest neighbours in the Athletes’ Village are from the Pacific Nations and Oceania region including Fiji, Samoa and Marshall Islands.

Olympic champion slalom canoeist Jessica Fox also provided a behind-the scenes look.

She shared a clip of the massive warehouse where the uniforms are being stored.

“One of the best parts about being an athelete is of course the Olympic uniform,” she said.

“Super excited to try on all my kid, I got to do it with my sister who’s at her first games.

“I think we’re going to look so good.”

As the 30-year-old gears up to defend her gold medal at her fourth Olympic games, her sister Noemie is set to make her Olympic debut in the same sport.

The Paris 2024 opening ceremony will begin at 3.30am on Saturday, July 27, but the competition will actually kick off a few days earlier.

The action begins at 11pm on Wednesday, July 24 with a couple of men’s football games, while the men’s rugby sevens starts half an hour later.

Several competitions begin before the opening ceremony, including archery and handball.

Once the opening ceremony is done, the official “Day 1” will begin on Saturday afternoon.

Medals will be awarded in cycling, diving, fencing, judo, rugby sevens, shooting, skateboarding and swimming that same day.