The Tasmanian athletes said they have learned plenty from the first Olympic Games in South America.

Hockey player Tim Deavin said he was enjoying life in the Olymnpic village.

"One of the best things is you have a live feed into every stadium in your room which is awesome so whenever there is a particular match on we all get on and watch it together and you can hear everyone else cheering whenever anything happens,” he said.

"A lot of the big names come in to the food hall and leave pretty quick because they get mauled by everyone."

Kookaburras teammate Eddie Ockenden said his Olympic experiences in Beijing, London and now Rio could not have been more contrasting.

"This is completely different to previous my Olympics, which is good," he said.

"I like the fact that they have all been completely different. They are all challenging in different ways. We have to roll with the punches and accept the challenges which we're pretty good at. I think we're all liking it.

"It's good fun hanging around with the other Australian athletes, some you know, some you don't. It's pretty cool talking to the cyclists, the swimmers, the rugby sevens guys, basketballers, water polo guys and girls, it's cool seeing how they train and what they're up to when their games are on."

Asked to name the most famous sportsman he had seen at the village, Ockenden replied: "I saw Jamie Dwyer the other day" before adding: "We saw Novak Djokovic having a hit out on one of the village courts which was pretty cool."

Rower Kerry Hore competed in the women's quad sculls at her fourth Olympic Games dating back to 2004 in Athens. "Every one of my Olympics have been so different but this is just so amazing. You walk around and the locals get so excited, shouting out ‘Australia, Australia’. For me, rowing with three girls a lot younger than myself, all first-time Olympians, has brought a new sort of excitement,” she said.

“It’s a very spectacular rowing course, you find yourself looking up at the things around you, including Christ the Redeemer."

Meanwhile, Tasmanian-born marathon runner Milly Clark, who now competes for NSW, described the Olympics as "the best learning experience ever".

"The village is a whole eye-opening experience, being around some of the most amazing athletes and thinking 'Hey, I follow you on social media' and you are just standing next to them in the food court. It's awesome and incomparable to anything else,” Clark said.