The parents of Hawke's Bay Olympian Regan Gough leave for Brazil tomorrow, a trip they would have made even if he was not selected.
"We hoped this would happen and planned the trip anyway," Penny Gough said.
"It is an added bonus Regan is going to be there to compete - we just had to take the risk."
He is part of the 20-strong New Zealand track team at Rio de Janeiro, where the 19-year-old will also have his older sister Kelsi cheering him on.
"It will be very special," father Dean Gough said.