No shot put or discus? Use a coconut instead

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A Cook Islands athlete set to compete at the Commonwealth Games has revealed her unorthodox method for learning shot put and discus -- she used to lob coconuts.

Tereapii Tapoki, a police officer from Rarotonga, the largest of the 15 palm-fringed Pacific islands that make up the country, hit on the solution after finding throwing sports a tough nut to crack with no equipment available.

"We didn't have a shot or discus, so we threw coconuts," the 33-year-old told reporters in Gold Coast. "It was quite different -- a discus is flat and a coconut is round."