The Kookaburras don't need to be informed of the magnitude of what they're on the verge of achieving.
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One win away from Olympic gold, they know Thursday's Tokyo decider is the biggest game of their lives.
Standing in their way is Belgium, the team that's long shaped as their biggest threat.
"The opportunity to play in a gold-medal game is rare," former Kookaburra Simon Orchard said. "Playing for gold is what young hockey players grow up aspiring to do.
"These guys would have watched Athens in 2004 as kids and wanted to emulate that team, now they have that opportunity."
Leading the Kookaburras' charge is Illawarra pair Flynn Ogilvie and Blake Govers.
The duo have been outstanding throughout the Tokyo Olympics, Govers scoring the decisive goal in Tuesday's semi-final victory over Germany.
The 25-year-old has had five years to prepare for this moment, the Albion Park star driven by the team's quarter-final exit in 2016.
"The heartbreak from Rio still burns," older brother Kieran said. "To get so far and train so hard, what happened in Rio is still burning.
"The biggest thing is to take the game on. It's just like a club game down here in what he needs to do, there's a bigger reward at the end of it, but it's just another game of hockey."
Orchard and Kieran Govers won bronze in 2012 when Colin Batch was mentoring a young Belgian side.
They finished fifth in London, but it was clear the foundations were set for a long and successful future.
Batch moved on, however Belgium continued to grow, winning the 2018 World Cup.
After four years coaching New Zealand, the Australian returned home to take charge of a side reeling from a disappointing Rio showing.
Since then, Batch has overhauled the Kookaburras style and returned the team to the top of the world rankings.
For both Belgium and Australia, a victory will complete an ascent to the top of the mountain.
"Colin sowed the seeds for this Belgian team," Orchard said. "He was in charge of the young kids coming through, now they're the guys trying to take a medal away from Australia.
"It probably helps Belgium are the opponents. They've been earmarked to win this gold for five or six years now. The group that was very young in London has won a World Cup and are now in their prime.
"Along with Australia, they were the team everyone thought could win gold. That will help Australia because there's a lot of pressure on Belgium as well."
Veteran Eddie Ockenden is the only Australian remaining from the London team, with 11 Kookaburras playing at their first Games.
Despite the lack of Olympic experience, the squad has won Champions Trophy, Commonwealth Games and Pro League finals in the past five years.
That big-game experience will help on Thursday, but nothing can prepare the players for a gold-medal match at the Olympic Games.
"There's no preparing for an Olympic gold-medal game," Orchard said. "They don't come very often, they're a completely different beast.
"The thing for this group is to stick to the process and forget about the outcome. That's hard to do when there's a big, shiny medal at the end of 60 minutes."