James Trotter will board a plane this month and fly to France to begin his role as physical therapies lead at the Australian Olympic team headquarters for the 2024 Summer Olympics. From the moment the plane lands on the tarmac in Paris, it will be all hands on deck.

As the Australian Olympic team geared up for the 2020 Olympics in Japan, physical therapies lead James Trotter MACP and the headquarters team were just a few weeks shy of shipping their equipment in a sea freight container to Tokyo when the world was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.