From Sydney trains to the Paris Games, transport worker-turned-Olympian Peter Boukouvalas has been waiting 20 years to take a journey to the big time.
It all started when the Sydney Trains employee watched the 2004 Athens Games on television alongside his Greek grandparents.
"I remember watching the (archery tournament) at my grandparents' house," he said on Friday at the announcement of Australia's archery team for the Paris Olympics.
"The Australian men's team - Simon (Fairweather), David (Barnes) and Tim (Cuddihy) - came on screen and I saw them doing it.
"And I thought, 'Yep, that's the sport I want to do'.
"I wanted to be the top one per cent in whatever I did ... and I just decided one day that was archery."
The 25-year-old picked up his first bow at the Sydney Olympic Park Archery Centre, where he stood on Friday holding his ticket to Paris.
"My home club standing behind me ... to come here now it's full circle," he said.
The field in Sydney's west is also where Fairweather won Australia's first - and so far only - Olympic gold medal in archery, at the 2000 Games.
Boukouvalas, performing in the men's individual tournament, will be joined by 22-year-old Laura Paeglis who will compete in the women's individual.
"It's almost hard to believe, after so many years of training and fighting towards this goal," Paeglis said.
"I have been working so hard the last few years to make this happen, so I really want to go ... (and) perform the best that I can."
