A broken right foot is hampering Kiwi shot putter Jacko Gill's Olympic preparations.
Three weeks ago the 21-year-old suffered what's known as a "Jones fracture" in the junction of the little toe. He was told his maiden Olympics were "100% over".
Gill stuck with the team and recently delivered a series of personal best lifts. However, throwing has been difficult.
"The pivot in the middle causes a fair amount of discomfort. There was also some ligament or tendon damage around the ankle [didn't want to know what it was] and that's been causing more pain," he wrote on an Instagram post.
"A few weeks ago we did not know if it was physically possible to pivot in time for the Olympics. [But] I'd go through the pain I've gone through these last three weeks 100 times over to represent my country at the Olympics."
