Australia’s top athletes have sported the new national uniform just a few months away from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
The world is counting down to the most-anticipated event of the sporting calendar with the Games due to get underway in France from July 26.
This latest edition of the green-hand-gold garb was designed in collaboration between sports performance brand ASICS and the Australian Olympic Committee.
Sports stars including Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams and Rugby 7s player Maurice Longbottom gathered at Yurong Point – otherwise known as Mrs Macquarie Chair – in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens on Thursday.
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ASICS Oceania managing director Mark Brunton said: “It is with great pride that we see the Australian Olympic Team once again donning ASICS uniforms as they prepare to represent our nation on a global stage.”
Every part of the uniform features the nation’s iconic green and gold colour scheme, and two prints designed by First Nations artist and 2008 Olympic boxer Paul Fleming, as well Torres Strait artist David Bosun.
“The centre piece represents a meeting place because the Olympics brings together people of all colours, religions and backgrounds from all over the world who are all competing for the same goal,” Mr Fleming said of his print.
“Everyone essentially becomes ‘one’, we’re all athletes and it doesn’t matter where you come from.”
The uniform also features a nod to ASIC’s Japanese heritage with a traditional Yagasuri arrow pattern.
Chef de Mission of the Australian Olympic Team for Paris 2024 Anna Meares said the uniform looks “fantastic”.
“So many iconic Australian sporting moments played out in ASICS kit at the Tokyo Olympics, and I cannot wait to see the new
sporting history Australian athletes will create in Paris in these uniforms,” she said.
Australian Olympic Rugby Sevens star Maurice Longbottom mirrored Anna’s sentiment saying,“It fills me with enormous pride to represent my country on the world stage, wearing a uniform which incorporates Indigenous design to showcase our rich cultural heritage, uniting us as one.”
In developing the uniform, the ASICS Institute of Sport Science (ISS) considered the temperature and weather conditions that athletes will face in Paris.
As a result, the uniforms feature an advanced ventilation technology optimised specifically for the summer Olympic Games.
More than 460 athletes are expected to represent Australia in 30 sports at the Olympic Games in July.
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