Luck initially looked to abandon Hamish Peacock late into preparations in March.

The untimely shoulder injury that the dual Commonwealth Games medallist sustained had ruled out a second Olympic campaign.

But Peacock appears to have a new lease on life nearly three months since surgery.

"I think I was one of the very few athletes that was happy to see that it was postponed," Peacock told The Sunday Examiner.

"Really I basically injured myself just before everything had gone down into lockdown.

"So it worked out nicely for me because I wouldn't have been able to get there."

The IOC made the decision just days after Peacock's name was crossed out to suspend the 2020 Games in the wake of the global pandemic that halted sport and restricted travel.

The repercussions from the injury to delay competition a year has worked in his favour.

The 29-year-old tore a pectoral muscle off the bone from his arm, which proved a better diagnosis than it "hanging in the middle".

"I knew what I done, we had a clear idea, but from what I did do we sort of knew then when the surgeon said, 'Look, you'll be able to get full function, full strength' that it was obviously promising to return," Peacock said.

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"It's really coming along so I will just build up gradually, not push it too hard, but also get the strength and the range of motion back."

Peacock is half way towards returning to throwing at practice while a physiotherapist has forecast that a return to competition can take place by December.

The timing perfectly coincides in line with the start of Australian Olympic qualification.

The turnaround in fortunes allows Peacock the time to be more measured for what could have been the end to a ticket to the Olympics.

"Sometimes chaos is an opportunity to better sit back, reflect and sort of see what you can improve on with a bit of time," he said.

"Some athletes will deal with that better than others, obviously. I haven't been able to do much because I can't throw yet. I am only just starting to do really, really easy stuff.

"So it's going to be a few months before I can throw with any intensity, but that's okay."

Peacock is feeling philosophical after last week losing grandfather John, the patriarch and mentor of the athletics family extending to his coach and dad Evan and brother Huw.

"I had a sort of poor 18 months and hadn't thrown very well. I just got back over 80 metres at a local competition in February, so that was doing me in some confidence," he said.

"After I threw the 80 metres I was like it was good be back above 80, but I want to jump up a few more metres to my best."

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