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Showing posts with label Olympic Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympic Games. Show all posts
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Karl du Fresne: My complaint to the BSA about the use of 'Aotearoa'

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On the night of August 1 I was watching Sky Open’s coverage of the Olympic Games. The presenter, Laura McGoldrick, repeatedly referred to Ne...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Bruce Cotterill: What New Zealand can learn from sport

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We’ve just finished another two-week-long sporting extravaganza, courtesy of the Olympic Games. It’s interesting that these resilient young ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Point of Order: Buzz from the Beehive - 13/8/24

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Govt brings an end to the ban on gene technologies – and Greenpeace responds by calling for a culling of cows An announcement from Social De...
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Monday, August 12, 2024

Mike's Minute: This was the best Olympics ever

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The best Olympics ever. Sadly it wasn’t in our timezone, which doesn’t help the communal buzz of a nation gathered together. But we won more...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

NZCPR Weekly: Olympic Success - Political Failure

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Dear NZCPR Reader,    In this week’s NZCPR newsletter we reflect on the wonderful success of our Kiwi Olympians – and the failure...
Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Karl du Fresne: Underwhelmed by the Olympic Games? So am I

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I’m already over the  Olympic Games .  It wasn’t always like this. Historically, the Games have been the ultimate sporting contest, comm...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Kevin Donnelly: Level the playing field and you'll lose the competitive Olympic edge

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GIVEN events over the first week of the Olympics, it's clear that many are unhappy with how winners and losers are chosen and the system...
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