righttolife.org.uk Ernie Gawilan, the 30-year-old champion swimmer, competed in the 2016 Paralympics and was the first Filipino gold medalist at the Asian Para Games in 2018. Now, he competed at the 2021 Paralympics in Tokyo, where he carried his country’s flag in the closing ceremony.
The below e-mail was sent to Netball New Zealand in response to the anti-Israel campaign being waged by the usual suspects ( John Minto and the Palestinian Solidarity Network) to pressure them into cancelling their relationship with PUMA. Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2021 9:38 am To: Info @ Netball
Contrary to Rob Muldoon’s one-liner, it’s become pretty clear that Australia is the beneficiary when we send Kiwi jetsam packing back home, whether it’s gang criminals or high-profile sports administrators. We even managed to end Russell Crowe’s singing career. Raelene Castle was sent packing
Dear Editor My local bowls club has opened up its greens since Level 3. The conditions adhere to those of the Covid-19 website, which refers to the SportsNZ website. The Bowls NZ website also lists the same conditions. These are that players can only play within their household bubbles,
All Black and Maori All Blacks legend Waka Nathan played 23 times for the All Blacks including 14 Tests. Read the article in full here. Comment on it on The BFD.
The Catholic Church has been rightly reviled for its years of covering up for the horrendous crimes of a small core of paedophiles in its ranks. So why aren’t other organisations who are still doing the same not subject to the same opprobrium? Think schools, for example: abusers are
Jožef Šimenko University of Essex Dr Jožef Šimenko is a Lecturer in the Essex Pathways Department at the University of Essex. He is a module leader for the Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology module. He joined the Pathways department in August 2019. For fans of martial arts, Tokyo 2020 was
John Simmons newsbusters.org Imagine a world in which a professional athlete – in peak physical shape — could be ridiculed and punished for not taking an experimental vaccine for a disease with a minimal death rate. Sounds too ridiculous to actually happen, right? Well, not exactly. Bills wide receivers Isaiah McKenzie
Eliora Here are two book reviews that are very different from each other, but equally good reminders that 40 years ago a Springbok rugby tour divided New Zealand. The violence that occurred has been at times labelled as eight weeks of “Batons, Brawls, Barbed wire and Boks.” Hold The Line
