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Olympic Fast Track Program: Women's Team Sprint 2024

This year, for the first time in history, the women's team sprint discipline has progressed to having three riders. This is a big milestone in equality for women in our sport. The Australian Cycling Team is taking an innovative approach to developing our team for the next Olympics in Paris 2024, ​seeking to recruit high-calibre athletes from other sports and competitive ​​​backgrounds, and leveraging the opportunity to make a tangible step-forward for women in our sport.
"We are seeking bold women who want to step out and achieve something exceptional.”

Dr. Lynne Munro, Head of Olympic Fast Track Program

Our Vision

"An Olympic gold-medal winning women’s team sprint whose journey to success
​positively impacts the future for women in the sport."

Information for Athletes

​The Olympic Fast Track (OFT) program offers the potential of a direct pathway towards contesting Olympic Gold through targeted identification of athletes with the ideal profile and fast-tracking their progress to world-standard in team sprint. It is a fully resourced, coach-led program of progressive assessment and development. Initial stages of the program will be individually tailored to meet you where you’re at, working with you to be supportive of your current training and competitive commitments.
Engagement will then increase through training and assessment at centralised camps and national training environment exposure. Understanding you and your background, is foremost throughout. Through all stages we will progress towards confirming your Olympic-potential and final commitment to the national program and Olympic journey.
Who Are You?
  • Demonstrated high level performance background
  • Driven to be world best
  • Thrives on challenge and has a "no limits" mindset
  • High levels of leg power, speed or acceleration e.g. in running, jumping or weightlifting
  • Professional, positive and contributes to exceptional team environments
  • Courageous and takes every opportunity to step forward
  • Seeks advantage in thinking differently

Program Information

The Opportunity
A clear and direct pathway towards Olympic gold, harnessing the high value and potential of established athletes, and leveraging a high-profile journey to contribute to a better future for the sport and for women.

​The Fast-Track Model
An alternative model to developing world-beating athletes, utilising innovative thinking and approaches to achieve podium standard quickly, challenging traditions and assumptions, and building an exciting culture of exploration, learning and change.

Shifting The Landscape
​A program centered around women and working in partnership with athletes, recognising their experience and uniqueness and creating a gender equitable/inclusive environment of empowerment.

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Power and Potential in the Program

​The Olympic journey is a high-visibility story that can create legacies. We aim to leverage the OFT initiative to positively impact the environment for women, including evaluating and identifying opportunities for best practice in women’s sport and performance environments, maximizing opportunities for community inspiration and empowerment, and supporting a flourishing future for women and the sport beyond 2024.
Specific Aims
  • Explore and shape a performance environment and preparation practices purposefully designed to support women achieving excellence.
  • Directly support women (staff and athletes) being involved in our sport and provide more role-models of strong, successful women to the wider community.
  • Positively impact the image and experience of women's track sprint cycling, helping improve experiences for women in being part of a vibrant culture and member of a tribe of strong, driven and supportive people.
  • Improve the engagement and collaboration of high-performance sport with our community through regular and meaningful outreach and connection.

#MyPowerOnThePodium Campaign​

Our Team. Our Community. Together We Rise.​​

Power is the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events, or to do something or act in a particular way.
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A podium is a platform used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings. Podia can also be used to raise people, it allows people to be seen and command attention.
“Sport, the Olympics, is about far more than winning and medal count, it’s about showcasing the power of humanity through exceptional human performance. As staff and athletes in a National training environment, we have a privileged position to role-model that sentiment and inspire our communities. As an athlete your power is displayed and embodied in the physicality of the competitive arena. As a community member your power is displayed and embodied in how you show up to life every day, to every person and in every situation and challenge you encounter. We need to encourage each other to be all of who we are and use our full power to make a difference. By doing so we empower others to do so too. Together we rise - lifting each other and powering change in the world one person at a time. We want to encourage our athletes and our community to use this hashtag to keep showcasing their daily actions of power. If we all keep showing up in our full power every day, tomorrow will be what we envisage it to be.”

Dr. Lynne Munro, Head of Olympic Fast Track Program​

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