Knee injury setback for hammer hopeful O’Keeffe

EILEEN O’KEEFFE has suffered a setback that could affect her performance if not her participation in the qualification rounds of the women’s hammer on Monday.

She arrived at the training camp in Matsue recuperating from a knee injury that had caused her to withdraw from the Morton Meeting in Dublin a week earlier.

And, while she had been training and throwing quite well under the supervision of Dave Fagan over the previous week, she complained of discomfort in her knee when she arrived in Beijing on Thursday night.