Paris will be the second Olympic Games for eight-time National Champion Stairmand, while it will be the debut of Vette who recently secured a place on the coveted World Surf League Challenger Series, alongside some of the best surfers in the world.
The youngest athlete at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, 12-year-old swimmer Rebecca Perrott went on to great things in the pool, winning medals in swimming and surf lifesaving for New Zealand.
By RNZ The Christchurch City Council has voted to consider a bid for a future Commonwealth Games, to the dismay of protesters who had earlier showered.