From Dunedoo to Paris on ABC TV

Countdown to Paris: Qualifying for the Olympics and Paralympics is often a bigger challenge than the Games themselves, in a road full of pressure, pain, and expectation.

Jamieson Leeson story is featured on this ABC TV story which shares her determination to overcome the barriers to sport when growing up in a small country town, Dunedoo 300km west of Sydney, to finding her way to Boccia. It didn't stop there, now a seasoned high performance athlete, with one Paralympics and a world championship campaign in her career, she is one of the leading para-athletes going into Paris 2024 Paralympics. She will be competing in Paris as the reigning World Champion.

Jamieson was awarded $2,000 by Sport Access Foundation when she was 16 years, in 2019 and clearly stated her intention to one day represent Australia. The funding we provided assisted with her costs to travel from Dunedoo to train at the NSW Institute of Sport at Sydney Olympic Park.

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Follow five Australian athletes in their quest to compete at the world’s largest sporting events in Paris 2024.

‍01:08: Athletes introduction

‍05:59: Diver Melissa Wu

‍08:16: Cyclist Alistair Donoho

e10:34: Kayaker Noemie Fox

‍14:00: Sports climber Campbell Harrison

‍17:42: Boccia player Jamieson Leeson

‍21:41: Melissa Wu’s life outside diving

‍25:34: What motivates Alistair Donohoe?32:05: J

amieson Leeson’s training regime34:32:

The inclusive culture of sports climbing36:54:

How obsession can curtail a career38:41: Did they qualify?

Noemie Fox is the only person in her family that isn’t an Olympian and is in the shadow of the greatest kayaker of all time – her sister Jess.

Alistair Donohoe is consumed with winning Paralympic gold and tortured by past failures.

Melissa Wu is defying history in a quest for a fifth Olympics.

Campbell Harrison is making his mark in the newer event of sport climbing.

And, after a childhood thinking she’d never be able to participate in sport – Jamieson Leeson is now the world’s best in boccia.