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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-900/
- Published: 2024-02-04T17:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-04T04:53:31.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:07

> The super-fit 92-old \[Jim Blair\] – born in 1931, he turns 93 in May – will be competing in the [New Zealand Masters Games](https://events.stuff.co.nz/2023/2023-downer-new-zealand-masters-games/whanganui?ref=goodoil.news) starting in Dunedin on Saturday, but moves better than some 40-year-olds and can recall decades-old facts and anecdotes (such as a trial offer with Aston Villa in the 1950s) with complete ease. \[…\]  
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> Blair will compete in the throwing events at the Masters Games. \[…\]  
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> Blair says he started playing football when he was six, which was the start of a lifelong love affair with the game that saw him win the Chatham Cup with Stop Out in 1956.  
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> The offer of a trial with Aston Villa came shortly afterwards, but with the club unable to pay for flight costs and Blair with a new house and new baby in New Zealand, he politely declined.  
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> But football wasn’t his only passion, and sport ran in the family – [brother Bob represented New Zealand in cricket](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350166729/black-caps-south-africa-compete-poignant-new-shield?ref=goodoil.news).  
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> “I think just continually being involved in sporting activities for 12 months a year,” he said. “If I wasn’t playing football, I was playing cricket. \[…\]  
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> Asked how long he intends to keep competing, Blair said: “Just as long as I’m on this side of the ground.  
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> “I’d like to be able to compete at the World Indoor Champs when I’m 95.”  
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> [Stuff](https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/350165148/92-year-old-kiwi-athlete-who-has-no-intention-stopping?ref=goodoil.news)

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