Tony Orman: It’s time to stop bickering over the country’s name — there’s one logical choice

Watching the Olympics and seeing New Zealand with just 5 million people competing and winning medals, must have made any good Kiwi-blooded person proud to be a Kiwi. The sports commentators, especially in the rowing, in athletic events like the triathalon frequently referred to Kiwis — gold medallists women’s golfer Lydia Ko (incidentally born in Korea) and amazing rower Emma Twigg, kayaker Lisa Carrington were called Kiwis, not New Zealanders.

Yet strangely I noticed the name “Aotearoa” appearing alongside “New Zealand” on athlete’s singlets. But no commentator called them Aotearoans. (What a mouthful of a word anyhow.)