New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size"
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@Snowy said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
@Kiwiwomble said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
@booboo exactly
also think it a bit of we were batting amazingly above our weight for a long time...and more recently its just been batting well above our weight...but people dont think about it like that and only compare to when we were amazing
It is "punching" above our weight, our batting is flakey at best and prone to collapse.
Ok, handbagging above our weight then ..
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@booboo said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
@sparky said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
And add winning the America's Cup five times and three in a row to the Honours Board.
I thought UAE won it?
Just pipped Monaco
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"Aotearoa has a lot of aura" ... considering most of the continent is underwater.
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What is so poignant about this victory is that not only was it against South Africa our nemesis in Rugby and 7s, it was around a year ago since the Rugby World Cup final give or take. I really believe this weekend has probably cemented us as probably the best sporting nation per capita in the World. In order to reach the final we had to beat the West Indies who are essentially a collection of small countries including the three who were ahead of us in medals per capital at the Olympics.
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TheNZTeam In addition to this. We had a few good finishes in other sports. Our league boys and girls and All Blacks will be wanting to stepup for next weekend.
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We are one of the wealthier countries in the world, yes I think we do punch above our weight, but we also have more money and resources to put into our sporting teams than loads of other countries. It's a pretty difficult thing to judge with so many variables.
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@No-Quarter said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
We are one of the wealthier countries in the world
interestingly 22nd out of 192. I thought we'd be lower!
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@dogmeat said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
Hyperbole or what?
Got to accept that at a global level all the weekend's successes were in niche sports
Or not. Given the population of the Indian subcontinent alone is nearly 2 Billion, cricket is pretty big for a niche sport.
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@SBW1 said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
All the curves in the right places.
All the isthmus
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@dogmeat said in New Zealand is a top sporting nation for its size":
@Donsteppa I wondered who would bring up the Indian population red herring.
There are varied measures out there when I had a look last night, but cricket seems to sit somewhere in quite a few Top 10 sporting code measures. Quite often #2 by viewership behind football, though some of those reports do seem to be citing each other...
Not every Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, or Nepalese national loves cricket, but that's the same with NZ and rugby, etc etc.