A workshop at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra has been humming with activity in preparation for the Games in Tokyo
It is easy to get lost exploring the vast campus of the Australian Institute of Sport in leafy northern Canberra. With cavernous basketball courts, neatly-manicured football fields, expansive gymnasiums and high-tech swimming pools, an intrepid visitor can quickly become side-tracked. But follow the correct directions – straight, left, right, straight, right, left, right – and an unassuming office comes into view.
It is here, deep within the AIS, that a team of engineers have been toiling away to give Australia’s Paralympians an advantage in Tokyo. The workshop may lack the grandeur of the AIS’s training facilities, but its machines, including nine 3D printers, and its people – six engineers and a machinist – could prove to be Australia’s secret weapon at the Paralympics, which begin on Tuesday.
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