The 2024 Paris Olympics will officially kick off on Friday, but some competitions have already begun.
The Opening Ceremony has not yet taken place, but some of Australia's athletes are already off to a winning start. Two wins have rocketed Australia into the men's rugby sevens quarter-finals with one pool game to spare. The team's 21-14 defeat of Samoa was followed by a gut-busting 21-7 win against Kenya, both in front of 80,000 at the Stade de France on Wednesday.
Ockenden is competing at his fifth Olympics with the Kookaburras and is a three-time hockey Games medallist. Up to 500,000 people are set to watch the ceremony in person from specially built stands, on the river banks and from the overlooking balconies and apartments. Australia's reigning Olympic BMX champion Logan Martin has been caught up in a robbery amid his preparation for the Games.
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