The Silver Fern

What's the point in Christie's selection?? Would have been better off giving Roigard the start to get some more international experience.

A pleasing sight to see for All Blacks fans

@sparky said in Olympics Thread:

GB get the Gold. NZ the Silver.

Silver medal a huge result for the ladies. It's NZ's first women's team sprint medal in Olympic history so pretty big deal.

From Stuff:
Overlooked as a contender in the team sprint by many pundits, who instead were tipping world champions Germany, China and the Netherlands to challenge Great Britain, the Kiwis were electric.

Well there you have it Jon Rahm came from behind to win the green jacket, his second career major title and a nice paycheck of $3.2 million.
3 LIV golfers finishing in the top 5 who would have predicted that? Mickelson turned back the clock shooting a 7 under 65 to put himself into contention.

Ryan Fox finished T-26 at Even par taking home $147,000 for his efforts.

Great final round of 6 under 69 from Jordan Speith to rocket himself up the leaderboard and finish T-4

French were rubbish for the majority of the second half.

Is this the NZ sporting moment of the weekend??
Way to go Foxy!!

I agree with Smith & Coney's comments on Sport Nation radio coverage. They needed to pick the best players right now for these test matches and Will Young needed to be in the side and that Blundell needs time away from the international area and go back to domestic cricket. Smith also said he finds it ridiculous that they picked a squad for the full series rather than just for each match given that we are playing at home.

Won a few bucks with Dan Hillier finishing inside the Top 20 so pretty happy with that. Also had Swede Alex Noren to finish inside the Top 20 as well.
What a year it's been for Xander. Started the year with no majors, now has two. He's had 12 Top 10 finishes in the 17 tournaments he has played this year including the majors.

So this will again stir up the debate about who is the greatest male tennis player of all time

Novak Djokovic wins the US Open for his 24th Grand Slam title

Some perks that Lulu gets just for making the quarter-finals. Free tickets for life. She gains entry to Wimbledon's exclusive Last 8 Club. All members get free tickets to the event and access to hospitality suites at the All England Club once their playing days are over.

Lulu Sun v Donna Vekic Wimbledon quarter-final: The perk Kiwi tennis star gets for reaching last eight

@Chris-B said in Wimbledon 2024:

That was a bit unfortunate for Lulu - she was looking good through to 3-3 in the second and then she ran out of gas pretty much at the same time that Vekic started choking (she served 4 or 5 double faults at 5-3 to let Lulu back into the set). Lulu's level dropped a few percent and suddenly it was pretty easy for Vekic and she stormed away without a noose in the third set.

In hindsight, the fourth game of set 1 was pretty costly - more than 10 deuces on Lulu's serve before she held - that was like four service games. A quicker hold there and she would have had gas at the end of the second.

Not all is lost. Venus and Skupski and Routliffe and Dabrowski are both through to respective doubles QFs - and Venus and Routliffe through to the third round in Mixed.

Lulu had run out of gas. A huge 2 weeks for her since she had to go through qualifying so she has played seven games on the trot, something that Vekic hasn't had to do since her ranking is alot higher than Lulu's. You have to win 7 games just to win a Grand Slam even if you don't go through qualifying so if Lulu had of made it to the final that would have been 10 games on the bounce. With her making the quarters at Wimbledon her ranking will move herup to 55 in the WTA rankings meaning she automatically qualifies for the next four Grand Slams main draw plus other WTA tournaments so doesn't have to worry about going through qualifying. She'll now be a regular on the WTA level.

Anyone watch the medal ceremony for the Men's Four? One of the American guys couldn't keep it together while his national anthem was playing. Winning that Olympic Gold Medal means so much to these athletes after four years of hard yakka.

Freddie Freeman wins Game 1 of the World Series for the Dodgers with 1st walk-off slam in WS history.

I'd be giving Roigard another run at 9 to be honest with Ratima to come off the bench. Roigard needs the minutes.

@antipodean said in All Blacks 2022:

Real shame for Josh but he'll bounce back and be rearing to go come SR 2023
Was playing golf a couple weekends ago and Josh was in the group in front of mine so maybe later in his recovery he can head out to work on his golf game...

Golf round-up

Lydia Ko has won the Saudi Ladies International for a second time and pockets $1.2mil

Lydia Ko storms to victory at Ladies European Tour event in Saudi Arabia

Steven Alker finishes in a tie for 8th at the latest PGA Champions event in Florida

John Rahm regains World Number One ranking after victory at the Genesis Invitational in California

Jon Rahm grabs third win of season with victory at The Genesis Invitational

Fox at the Masters: Family join Ryan Fox for emotional trip down iconic Magnolia Lane

Fox tees off at 4.36am Friday morning NZ time and is grouped with Billy Horschel & Harris English

20 year old Alabama sophomore Nick Dunlap has won the American Express PGA tour event in California. Fist amateur to win a PGA tour event since Phil Mickelson in 1991.

Last year he became the only player other than Tiger Woods to win both the U.S. Junior Amateur and U.S. Amateur.

Myrtle Beach Classic: Ryan Fox secures second top-10 PGA Tour finish to keep 2025 card dream alive

NZ now sitting 11th on the medal table. Not bad for a country of just over 5 million