With the power of hindsight, the soccer players who established a team in Ravenswood in 1968 could not have chosen a better name.
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The large cross-section of nationalities among the team - plus the rings emblazoned on the kit bought from wool manufacturer Coats Patons - prompted the players to call themselves Olympic.
Fifty-three years later, that same team is cheering on one of its own at an Olympic Games.
The term "family club" is almost as well used in regional sport as "ailing clubhouse", but the entity now called Riverside Olympic epitomises the concept and few better than A-League Grand Final MVP and Olyroo Nathaniel Atkinson.
At a club where uncles Matt and Nick played and his grandmother, Felicity, is a life member, Atkinson began in an under-sevens side coached by his mum, Kristy.
He went on to play in the under-12 to under-14 Riverside Spirit team coached by current Launceston United women's coach Lynden Prince and featuring Prince's son Tom, now Olympic's NPL Tasmania centre-back.
"He always had the skillset and was ahead of the rest even though that was a really good team," said Prince Snr.
"The only thing that let him down in junior years was his attitude. He used to sulk a fair bit when you dragged him. He'd just sit on the ground behind you until it was time to go back on. But someone has obviously fixed that now.
"I do take a fair bit of pride watching him now. Hopefully, he realises some of the things I said might have been helpful."
Becoming a mainstay of Northern Tasmanian Junior Soccer Association representative teams, Atkinson moved to Hobart aged 14 and Melbourne two years later as his career took off at state, national and international levels, including starring roles at the Tokyo Olympic Games in the past week.
But the link between the two Olympics remains solid, particularly with younger brother Jakoby now playing in the under-13 Atoms under the guidance of the club's NPL coach Alex Gaetani, having also started out in a team coached by mum, Kristy.
I do take a fair bit of pride watching him now. Hopefully, he realises some of the things I said might have been helpful.
- Nathaniel Atkinson's junior coach Lynden Prince
Atkinson even made mention of Riverside to a nationwide live audience in his post-match interview after claiming the Joe Marston Medal in Melbourne City's A-League Grand Final win over Sydney.
Like Prince, Riverside president Stuart McCarron retains vivid memories of the prodigious talent spending endless hours at Windsor Park, where the club moved to when it left Ravenswood in 1978.
"Because his grandmother was secretary and a life member, he was always at the club kicking a ball around," McCarron said. "Sometimes he even did that inside and caused a bit of damage, but I think we'll forgive him that."
Atkinson is among a select few to graduate from Tasmanian soccer. He follows the likes of Hobart's Josh Hope (Melbourne Victory) and Ulverstone's Jeremy Walker (Melbourne Heart and Perth Glory) into the A-League while David Clarkson played professionally in the English Football League and fellow Hobartian Dominic Longo was the last Tasmanian Socceroo from 1993-98 and only other Olympian (1992).
He may have been a Melburnian for six years but there's no doubt where Atkinson still calls home.
He occasionally returns to Windsor Park for training sessions, sometimes the only notice being when his name appears on the closed Facebook group for those requiring club stalwart Jamie Colgrave's internationally-famous chicken burgers.
Recovering from what threatened to be a season-ending hamstring injury, he sought solace among the Riverside supporters at a Northern derby at Launceston City.
And in an interview with The Examiner in 2018, he rattled off his junior teammates like Ricky Ponting reflecting on his mentors at Mowbray.
"Riverside has definitely helped my development a lot," he said. "Olympic was my junior club, my whole family played there - uncles, my mother and now my younger brother, my nan was the treasurer - so I was always around.
"Pretty much all the younger boys here I know - Will Coert, Riley Wakeford, Liam Gilmore, Mackye Jago, Cabe Woods, Drew Sykes, Tom Prince ... I came up with a lot of these boys and they've helped me improve.
"Tasmania's a small state and soccer isn't the biggest sport here but it keeps growing and hopefully in the future a lot more players will come through. But at the moment it's good to be one of the few."
And as Atkinson pushes the Olyroos towards success in Tokyo, Coats Patons can reflect on a proud Olympic production line.
Ariarne Titmus' grandfather, Graham, worked there too.