Kammala wannan jumla: Shekaru hudu bayan haka, Rivers ya dawo daga ritaya kuma ya sami zaɓen Olympic don wasannin Olympics na Moscow na 1980. Ta lashe gasar zakarun kasa ta 1982 tare da babbar rikodin kasa na mita 69.28 kuma ta dauki lambar azurfa a Brisbane
Wasannin Commonwealth a bayan 'yar takara Sue Howland.