O’Rourke let off throw
NZPA staff correspondent Los Angeles The Commonwealth javelin champion, Mike O’Rourke, has been excused having to throw 85 metres by the end of the month before being accepted as a full Olympic Games competitor. The condition was imposed by the Olympic selectors when they chose the full team in April because O’Rourke was then recovering from injury.
He is again injured now but the Olympic selection chairman, Roy Dutton, has agreed to waive the condition. The general team manager, Sir Ron Scott, and the track and Held section manager, Graham McCabe, met Dutton yesterday and put O’Rourke’s case. “The condition was waived in the best interests of the athlete,” Scott said. “We explained to Roy that in an attempt to perform
the 85-metre throw by July 28 Mike might have aggravated the injury. The main thing for him was to get medical treatment, not to have to worry about throwing a specific distance by a specific time.” O’Rourke has now left the other athletes at the University of Southern California in Irvine and arrived in the Games village where he can receive specialised treatment from the New Zealand medical staff.
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