Pera returned from a long absence to compete at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, where he finished fifth in the same division with a total haul of 277 kg. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pera qualified for his third Cook Islands squad, as a 35-year-old, in the men's heavyweight class (105 kg) by receiving a continental berth from the Oceanian Weightlifting Championships. He successfully lifted 135 kg in the single-motion snatch, and hoisted 170 kg in the two-part, shoulder-to-overhead clean and jerk to deliver a fourteenth-place finish in a field of twenty-two weightlifters with a total of 305 kg.