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This week s Extra Time podcast features an interview with Rugby Players Association president David Kirk and looks at sideline violence and abuse, and a surprise in women s rugby.
Former All Blacks coach Sir Steve Hansen hates seeing NZ Rugby and the NZ Rugby Players’ Association throwing mud at each other in public. If they must squabble, he says, they should do it in the NZ Rugby boardroom and not in front of bemused Kiwi fans.
The relationship between the two parties has deteriorated in recent months because the NZRPA believes NZ Rugby shouldn’t do a deal with US investment giant Silver Lake, which wants to inject $387.5 million into the organisation for a 12.5 percent stake in the game.
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Where do Olympians keep their gold medals? We bring you the news you didn t hear from NZ s biggest sports awards and we explore the history behind Aotearoa s first scientists.
Where might an Olympic gold medallist keep their gold medals? According to two-time Olympic gold medallist canoer Lisa Carrington, she keeps her’s on her bedside table. “But I’m not very good at keeping track of them,” she admits. She was just one of the country s top sportspeople who spoke to Watch the video above as Nelsen finds out the story behind how former All Black Conrad Smith got his nickname “Snakey” and finds out the strangest questions our biggest sports stars have been asked.
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It should all be so straightforward, shouldn’t it? As a coach, you pick the best player available in every position, and then you name them all in your team. They go out on the field and play superbly, each to his or her full potential.
In reality, it never works out that way. The best players do not always work as the best combinations in the sub-units of the team. The front row, the back row, the midfield, the back three.
Kiwis urged to join well-known local faces in challenge to curb high number of Kenyan girls forced into child marriage msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
13/03/2021 By challenging ourselves, we can challenge these shocking statistics. Photo credit: Getty Images.
Kiwis are being urged to join other well-known New Zealanders by participating in a challenge to help get the high number of girls in Kenya who are forced into child marriage and experience female genital cutting into education.
About 85 percent of girls in East Pokot face this, so the inaugural 1 Human Race challenge asks people to move 85 kilometres to help raise money to get them into education to improve their lives and the lives of generations to come.
So They Can is the charity behind 1 Human Race. Founder Cassandra Treadwell says the idea to start the organisation came after she heard the stories of girls in Pokot.