Dad holds his daughter’s bike steady as she balances precariously on the banked surface.
A last encouraging word, and then she’s off – on her way to her second Olympic Games gold, and her third medal in Paris.
Ellesse Andrews ensured a sensational campaign ended on Sunday in style for the New Zealand team at the 2024 Games, racing away to gold in the women’s individual sprint on the final day of the 19-day extravaganza.
The first five-time Olympic medallist in the colourful, unpredictable sport of snowboarding comes from a colourful, unexpected place: New Zealand. The honour belongs to Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, a 24-year-old from Wānaka.
His accounts have been criticised in international media as ‘AI blackface’ and ‘digital fiction’.
Duvall’s wife Luciana released a statement, writing, “Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.”
Will Appelbe has upset a rural Canterbury town after he blinded their prized salmon statue. The Greenpeace freshwater activist covered the salmon’s eyes with double sided tape and paper and left a pointed message saying, “Fonterra killed my family.”
While the rapidly changing and unprecedented fortunes of One Nation make for exciting politics, there are still plenty of opportunities for this support to dissipate.
We are not required to hate our own country to understand its past. And we are certainly not obliged to pretend that history ends in grievance rather than citizenship under a common law.
We do not want to spend another three decades discovering we have simply replaced one dysfunctional planning system with another.
