Tasmanian Olympic hopefuls have headed to all corners of Europe to finalise their plans for Tokyo.
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A huge week of international travel has seen elite performers in four different sports descend on assorted outposts with contrasting fortunes.
Triathlete Jake Birtwhistle and rower Georgia Nesbitt have had trying weeks as they headed to Spain and Switzerland respectively while runner Stewart McSweyn and cyclist Richie Porte have plotted courses towards the continent's northern and southern extremities.
Nesbitt's Olympic dream sank in the waters of Lucerne where the Huon 29-year-old and NSW crewmate Sarah Pound were unable to secure the required top-three finish to qualify Australia's lightweight women's double scull for the upcoming Games.
The crew reached their final but finished sixth, with the qualification spots taken by the US, Switzerland and China, meaning Australia will contest the men's and women's pairs, fours, eights and quad sculls plus the women's double sculls in Tokyo.
Rowing Australia performance director Bernard Savage said the team was delighted to see all its crews make their finals at "an extremely tough" last Olympic qualification regatta where inclement weather caused the racing to be condensed into just two days instead of the planned three.
Having been denied the chance to contest the weekend's World Triathlon Series race in Japan due to illness, Birtwhistle plotted course for one of his favourite European bases.
"I'm on my way to Spain now," the Launceston 26-year-old said on Monday.
"I'll be based in Girona until my next race. I've spent a bit of time there over the years and it's a nice place."
Teaming up with his coach, Joel Filliol, and training partners, Birtwhistle, who has already secured a selection nomination for the Olympics, plans to contest the next WTS race in Leeds in early June before a block of altitude training in the Pyrenees until the start of July.
He will return to Girona for a final few weeks of training before departing for Tokyo.
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Also in Spain, but some 2500 kilometres away, is Porte who is "enjoying" a climbing training camp with his INEOS Grenadiers team on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, off the West African coast.
The Launceston 36-year-old, whose two completed WorldTour races since returning to Europe (Volta a Catalunya and Tour de Romandie) both yielded second places, is preparing for his 11th Tour de France.
Should Porte be selected for his second Olympics, he is destined for a frenetic week with Le Tour due to finish on July 18, six days before the road race is scheduled to begin at the Fuji International Speedway, west of Tokyo.
However, few Tasmanians have a busier international schedule ahead than McSweyn who flew to Europe with plans to visit both the former Iron Curtain and the far north of England.
The 25-year-old Melbourne-based King Island runner has achieved the qualification standard over three different distances and will use the upcoming track season to choose which ones to race.
McSweyn, who normally bases himself in London, will operate as a pacemaker when Uganda's 10,000m world champion Joshua Cheptegei attempts to break the 5000m world record at the 60th Ostrava Golden Spike in the Czech Republic on Wednesday.
Four days later, McSweyn will be in Gateshead for the Diamond League meeting which has been moved from Rabat, Morocco, due to the global pandemic.
A year after running an Australian 1500m record of 3:30.51, McSweyn will tackle the same distance and be joined by compatriots Ollie Hoare, Matthew Ramsden and Ryan Gregson.
McSweyn, whose coach Nic Bideau also flies to Europe this week and plans to meet up with him in Gateshead, will use the hectic European track season to finalise his Olympic plans.
However, COVID-19 complications mean the goalposts are constantly on the move with the upcoming Oslo Diamond League meet likely to be delayed for a second time and use of the London Olympic Stadium complicated by West Ham United's English Premier League commitments and the cost of reconfiguration between soccer and athletics.