Former world champion middle distance runner from New Zealand Kate McIlroy, is keeping her Olympic dream alive. She has been suffering from injuries.

“I’ve had a problem with my heel bone, it’s hard to explain - it hasn’t really been given a proper diagnosis - but it’s basically a bone stress.

“I actually didn’t run from October till the end of December so I was off for about 212 months.”

“The plan at the moment is to try and get to Beijing. Obviously, I’ve still got to qualify and our cut-off is the 31st of March. So I’m looking to be ready for our nationals which are on that weekend [March 29-31] in Auckland. “I’m going to try and do a qualifier there. If I do that I will go to Europe and then head off to the Olympics,” she said.

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