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Now Gunn has been ranked number one in the world by the World Dance Sport Federation.

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Au Revoir Paris
Olympics

Au Revoir Paris

Perhaps the most satisfying gold medallist of all was Yarin Shriki. The Israeli won the 69 kg class in jiu-jitsu after surviving the Nova music festival massacre on 7 October last year.

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We Already Know They’re Men
Olympics

We Already Know They’re Men

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, then it is a duck. Unless you’re the IOC and the duck has declared itself to be a swan. In which case, it’s a swan.

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Faces of the Day
Face of the Day

Faces of the Day

Lisa Carrington is likely to depart Paris with an amount of Olympic medals to her name which no New Zealand athlete will ever surpass. Yet any suggestion she might not get as excited as she once did about her successes were dismissed as crystal-clear as the waters of the

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Face of the Day
Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso was told to leave the Paris Olympics Village after being accused of creating an “inappropriate atmosphere”. She is understood to have left Paris after being suspended from the village, The Telegraph reported. The head of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee, Larissa Schaerer, did not elaborate on what

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Intersex Athletes Will Be on the Podium
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Intersex Athletes Will Be on the Podium

If you’re following the Olympics only through the lens of the New Zealand media you will be unaware that this saga remains one of the highest profile ongoing controversies in Paris.

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