He (Kersten) can see there's a chance that presents itself to him that he probably didn't count on earlier in the year, where he's a real shot at becoming world champion.

The big question will be how she has pulled up physically after Melbourne but so far we haven't seen any recurrence of the back injury problems that plagued her Commonwealth Games preparation.

That's why he earns so much respect around the traps, because he can handle himself not just in a very professional way, but he's very much his own man and he does things the right way.

We don't make the rules, we interpret them. Since that day he has been free to try to make the Australian team, the same as everyone else.