First batch of athletes and staff arrive for Paris Olympics

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Athletes from Australia, South Africa, Japan, Uruguay and the United States were among the first delegations to arrive in the Games Village for the Paris Olympic Games.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00How does it feel to arrive finally?

00:07Yeah.

00:08Okay.

00:09My name's Whitney Carter.

00:10Okay.

00:11I'm going to do all yours.

00:12What's up?

00:13We're training.

00:14Yeah.

00:15We trained really hard.

00:16It was tough.

00:18We've just kind of started our taper now.

00:19Our first kind of seven days there were hard.

00:20Big double days.

00:21We had an opportunity to do a scratch match against Ireland and Uruguay.

00:22So it's good to get a bit of a hit out.

00:23Get some hits in the body to just familiarize ourselves.

00:24Yeah.

00:25We're feeling good.

00:26Good luck.

00:27See you later.

00:28Well done.

00:29Good luck.

00:30See you later.

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00:48See you later.

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00:50Well done.

00:51Well done.

00:52I'm excited to get checked into the rooms.

00:53Get all the clothes and everything.

00:54And just get a lay of the land.

00:55It's beautiful out today, and so we are here at about lunchtime.

00:56So we're going to want to stay awake until it's time to go to the games.

00:57So we'll see you later.

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01:15It's time to go to sleep. So definitely just gonna keep ourselves occupied, you know getting to see everything here at the village

01:23I'm in Paris when things big here. So it'll be you know, definitely a lot of history here and I love Paris

01:28So I'm excited to see the city

01:30Moscow, Ukraine

01:44To be honest for every Ukrainian, I think it's an honor to represent my country

01:51As I said, it's an honor and we will show you a good result

01:57It will give motivation to someone who is not enough.

02:05When there is a war in our country, sport is like a representative of the embassy,

02:15like a representative of the country that carries the flag of peace.

02:20Sportsmen have always been the first to see that our people are peaceful people,

02:33and we are only for freedom, so that we live calmly and independently,

02:40and solve all our problems ourselves.

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