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Monday, January 13, 2025

Damien Grant: New Zealand is where we live. Not who we are


Who won Olympic Gold at Paris for New Zealand?

If you can recall more than one champion you have done better than me. Ten individuals or teams brought home gold. By contrast, for older readers, who won two gold medals for swimming at the 1996 games in Atlanta?

I’m asking this question as I sit at a cafĂ© in the Korean city of Jeonju. Or more precisely, the South Korean city. Korea is one nation divided by history but still, I think, a single nation, in the same way Germany was divided but not irreparably so.