2022 in Review: March
By Aiden McLaughlin The Women’s Cricket World Cup, originally scheduled for February and March 2021, begins as the White Ferns face the West Indies in the opening match at Bay[…]
Category: Olympics
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2022 in Review: February
The Winter Olympics start in Beijing. The New Zealand team send 15 athletes. The gold medal won by Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in Snowboard (Slopestyle) is New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :-21 August
Why not put a volleyball court in the middle of the Ljubljanica river in Slovenia? Here is a very bright photo of Glenn Phillips and Mitch Santner chilling in the[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :-14 August
Has Sam Cane ever looked this happy? The Black Caps watching the action from their hotel in Jamaica. Glenn Phillips doing a bit of damage at Sabina Park. From the[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 7 Marsh
A clean sweep for Ukraine in the men’s sprint vision-impaired para biathlon at the Winter Paralympics. Brighton’s yellow and blue third kit got a run out over the weekend. The[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 27 February
So farewell to the Beijing Winter Olympics. The background to the games might have been distasteful, but what a visual onslaught it was. Olympic workers in protective clothing rest after[…]
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Rewind: Beijing 2022
By Scott MacLean The Winter Olympics are over, and with it our most successful edition of it having doubled our all-time tally to six and grabbing those first-ever Winter Gold[…]
Sporting Pictures of the Week :- Winter Olympics Special
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s Olympics. The panoramic beauty of the ski cross. Liubov Nikitina of the Russian Olympic Committee makes the rest of us feel better during the freestyle skiing women’s aerials[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week :- Winter Olympics Special
Welcome to Beijing 2022. Where the opening ceremony is a bit trippy. The ski jumping course looks like it’s been lifted from a dystopian episode of the Simpsons. And there’s[…]
New Expectations
By Scott MacLean For many New Zealanders the Winter Olympics are something of a novelty. After all, and despite having mountains and ski fields of our own, is not what[…]
