Once in danger of missing a second consecutive Olympics, Matildas midfield dynamo Katrina Gorry is back in full training and ready to fire in Paris. Gorry has successfully recovered from ankle surgery, undergone in March, and has linked up with her Matildas teammates for training camp in Spain. The tenacious midfielder, 31, will be pushing to feature in Sunday's friendly against Canada in Marbella, but more importantly, Australia's opening group match against Germany on July 26.
While Gorry wouldn't directly answer whether she would line up in game one, she indicated she was ready to go. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. "It's been a whirlwind couple of months for sure," Gorry said on Monday.
"Obviously, pretty devastated about my injury but so grateful for all the support and I knew that I could trust my body to get myself back here and I get to do it with my beautiful family as well. "So I'm feeling good, ankle's doing really well and just so happy to be back in camp. "I'm in full training.
I've been in full training for the last couple of weeks. "I did a lot of running sessions by myself, trying to get myself fit and back in the team and since I've been back, I've been doing full sessions, haven't missed a beat really." Gorry's fiancee Clara gave birth to son Koby last month.
The pair, along with daughter Harper, who turns three next month, are with Gorry in Spain and will also attend the Olympics. Gorry played at Rio 201.
