Harry Garside will head to the Paris Olympics aiming to improve on his Tokyo Games bronze. The 26-year-old headlines a history-making, 12-athlete Australian boxing team searching for the nation's first ever gold medal in the discipline. Caitlin Parker joins Garside as returning Olympians, while Williamson Pohlman and Callum Peters are the first two Indigenous athletes officially selected for Paris.
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00:00 It was so so special to be going to my second Olympic Games.
00:05 When I first walked into the boxing gym, it was 16 years ago now, so most of my life I've
00:08 been boxing and I had no idea where this sport would take me.
00:13 I just wanted to go and have fun and get fit and defend myself and now here I am, I'm collecting
00:18 my second Olympic ticket.
00:20 It's super exciting and I'm just so grateful to be able to do this.
00:25 I'm incredibly proud to be sharing this journey with such an incredible team.
00:29 Well, the Kugalan is just a real small country, population of 20,000, so for one of us with
00:35 the heritage to be able to make it and go to the Olympics and fight and will win a gold,
00:41 will win gold, is pretty awesome, it's pretty amazing and yeah, why not be the first to
00:47 do it?
00:47 It's cool.
00:49 [laughter]
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