Dame Valerie Adams has committed to a Tokyo Olympics campaign
Dame Valerie Adams has committed to a Tokyo Olympics campaign
18 August 2018
If the three-time shot put medallist is selected in 2020, she will join
Barbara Kendall as the only New Zealand women to feature at five Games.
The 33-year-old's path to further glory shapes as a challenge.
If her European and Commonwealth Games competitions were a gauge this season,
the international field is strengthening.
A knee niggle has ruled her out of the remainder of the northern hemisphere
season, and as Mum to 10-month-old Kimoana, much of her time is devoted to
motherhood rather than the throwing circle these days.
No-one in Team Adams is underestimating the scale of the task ahead.
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