High jump queens Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson are among the best medal hopes in the deepest track and field squad Australia has sent to an Olympics in nearly 70 years.
But like several of the other green and gold athletes with serious designs on a gold medal in Paris, they will come up against an alltime great.
It makes for an enthralling 11 days of competition, kicking off at the Trocadero on Thursday when Jemima Montag leads the Australian charge in the 20km walks.
