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A group of Cook Islands Olympic team members are waiting to find out when they can return home, following the latest outbreak of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
Kirsten Fisher-Marsters, Wesley Roberts and Jane Nicholas in Tokyo.
Photo: Facebook/Cook Islands Canoeing Association
The Cooks are Covid-19 free but life in Japan is very different, with infections on the rise in the capital.
Spectators have been barred from attending events after Tokyo declared a state of emergency which will run throughout the Olympic Games.
Cook Islands Chef de Mission John Paul Wilson said the team s physio did not travel to Japan because he declined to be vaccinated, but the delegation on the ground have all received two doses.
But wearing masks, he admitted, has taken some getting used to for the Rarotonga-based members of their team.
Press Release – Athletics New Zealand
Dame Valerie Adams surged back to her vintage best this evening as she lit up the Sir Graeme Douglas International in Auckland by unleashing a world-class 19.65m to register her longest throw for five years.
In a brilliant return to form, Adams added almost one metre on to her season’s best and four times surpassed the 19m mark with her best effort matching the world indoor lead of Portugal’s Auriol Dongmo.
Adams has shown small incremental improvements in her three previous competitions this year but today she took a giant leap forward.
The 36-year-old mother-of-two matched her season’s best of 18.68m with her first effort before launching the 4kg metal ball to a mighty 19.65m in round two – her best effort since she threw 19.75m in August of 2016 in Germany.
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