Yes, just 12 months ago and Lisa Carrington as she did in London 4 years previous took speed on the water to a new level and put in a decisive performance to win her 2nd Gold in the Women’s K-1 200m sprint. Mal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA44LNEogM0
Perhaps not our better known Olympic medallists but Jo Aleh and Polly Powrie showed everyone how it was done and joined our elite group of Olympic gold medal winners. The pair also enhanced NZ’s dominance in sailing events whether in small boats or big boats. Mal
Los Angeles 1984…….One of NZ’s best performances when it came to winning medals. Who was around then and remembers this? Russell Coutts (now Sir Russell) …..didn’t he go on to do some other yachting stuff ? Americas Cup as I recall. Mal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R0_DMh2z78
Today’s Olympic Windback – London 2012 Eric Murray and Hamish Bond leave the others to contest the minor placings in the Mens Rowing Pair……..what a performance! Mal
The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel has retained its powerful midcourt trio for next year’s ANZ Premiership title defence. Forming a vital nucleus, captain Wendy Frew and Silver Ferns Shannon Francois and Gina Crampton are the first roster signings announced by the southern franchise which won both
10 August 1984 – a powerful day in NZ’s Olympic history with Ferguson and MacDonald putting in a blistering performance to win gold in the Mens K2 500 Love the commentator’s line “he’s here to win gold medals, not muck around” referring to a shot of Ferg giving it everything. Mal https://www.youtube
The fire service team has confirmed they’re the fast emergency service in Invercargill, with victory over the police team at the annual corporate cycling race held on Sunday. Nineteen teams took to the boards in the 12 th Architecture Unlimited Corporate Pursuit, which pits businesses against each o
The benefits of an intensive week of training and development were visible at the Cycling Southland Mid-Winter Track Carnival held in Invercargill last week. More than 30 track cyclists from around the South Island took part in a development camp, run by Cycling New Zealand regional performance hub
