Calab Law will enter his first Olympics campaign confident of reaching the semi-finals in the 200 metres on the back of the Wakka Wakka man's run of times and recent golden form.

The 20-year-old from Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast is currently ranked 31st in the world, based on a points score from a range of international meets in Law's pet sprint event.

But his personal best times suggest Law could finish inside the final 16 sprinters in Paris and in the semi-final, and a top-four finish off securing a spot in the Olympic final.

"I think my current PB right now, if you put it on paper, I should be there in a semi-final," Law had exclusively told National Indigenous Times on Wednesday.

"But you have to put it together all right on the day.

"It all depends because other people might put it together better than you.

"It's different every single time, but if you average my times out, the time I know I have to run and have before it would be that (semi-final qualification).

"I want to be in the top 16 in the world by the end of the comp."

Law's best 200-metre time is 20.42 seconds, extraordinarily recorded at the 2022 under-20 world championships where he was aged just 18, securing the former Ipswich Athletics Club junior a bronze medal.

Suffering a stress fracture to his spine shortly after the breakout performance early in 2023, he returned to the track and picked up his first open gold medal and the national title by the end of the interrupted year to be back to his best.

Law has burned his regional competition to win the gold in the 200m final after also taking out a 100m gold earlier in the 2023 Pacific Games last December.

The Olympic rookie is remaining grounded despite having a clear upside heading to Paris.

"I'm not one to put an expectation on myself, but all I want to do is go out there and run a PB because I am in the shape for a PB – I am in the shape to run fast, very fast," Law said.

"If I make a semi-final and run a PB, I will be over the moon.

"It would be like absolutely amazing.

"But if I don't make the (semi-) final, but run another PB, I will still be over the moon because it will mean I went there and did literally the best I possibly could."

Law is also set to run for Australia's 4x100m relay team among a squad of six sprinters.

Another strong performance this year in only May at the World Relay Championships held in the Bahamas secured a second spot at the Paris Olympics.

The capability to run the bends in the track over 100m almost as proficiently as he does individually in the 200m could prove invaluable for Australia to possibly reach the replay final.

"The team has not been officially selected, but we have been racing all year and I have been on the third leg position this year and just last week in London," Law said.

"So I think I have kinda got that spot too."

Law will look to emulate Patrick Johnson, the last star Aboriginal 200-metre runner, who also ran the same two events at the Olympics.

Like the Kaantyu man, also from Queensland, Law is considered the best Indigenous sprinter of his generation too and has a lot of respect for Johnson's achievements, including performing the standout 100m time run of 9.97 seconds.

"I do remember meeting Patrick Johnson once when I was younger, like when I was little, but I haven't ran into him recently," Law said.

"I'm sure he'll be supporting me."

Johnson is not in Paris, but is working in the Olympic movement with the ongoing Brisbane 2032 campaign.

But Law does have his mentor, Kyle Vander-Kuyp, on hand for the 2024 Games.

Vander-Kuyp, a former 110m hurdler, will give Law advice how to handle the moment and the pressure cooker of the Olympics.

The Worimi and Yuin man is one of Australia's four deputy chef de missions in Paris.

"Kyle and I talk pretty regularly, anyway – he's the best to me and the most relaxed person I've ever spoken to," Law said.

"He's so good at giving advice.

"Kyle's mentality with it all, you just can tell that he knows everything that you need to know.

"So it's really good to be able to talk to Kyle."

Having an Aboriginal mentor to check in with has also instilled strong cultural values in Law.

One of 11 First Nations competitors who booked their ticket for Paris, Law says he is feeling connected to his own Wakka Wakka ancestral roots.

"I'm out there, running for myself, running for Australia, but I am running for my own nation – being Indigenous," Law said.

"I think it's sick that I get to represent more than just one thing.

"I get to represent everything that makes me as one whole.

"I always reflect and think about my people, my family (when running).

"I love being able to represent not just one, but two flags."

Paris is celebrating its 100th anniversary of last hosting the Summer Olympics and are the first city to host the Games three times following its initial 1900 Olympiad – the second-ever modern events behind the Olympic birthplace of Athens.

But Law's Australian athletics team will not be a part of another first when Paris takes the opening ceremony out of a stadium and to the famous River Seine.

They will remain in their training base of Marseille until the second week of the Olympics.

"I super excited – I have waited for this all year," Law said

"Well, really, you wait for this basically for your whole life as a sprinter.

"But this is kinda surreal at the moment because we don't get to go to the opening ceremony from our pre-camp.

"We'll come in (to Paris) on another day.

"We'll just do our own thing here and do celebrations with our (athletics) team all here, which is still cool.

"I think we get to see the closing ceremony, which I think that's even better."

Less than 100 Australian Olympians are reported to be jumping on boats to participate in the opening ceremony.