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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
NRL Final corner. Aw shucks; thank you Benji. Wayne Bennet showing emotion. Play test cricket on the Gold Coast. Never rains there. Once again, Gritty gets it. Well, they say[…]
A Meghan Rapinoe mural in St Paul. The Blackcaps are in Bangladesh, and just check out that carpet. Paralympics corner. Abderrahmane Chetouane of Algeria reacts after beating Priscilla Gagne of[…]