2022 in Review: February
The Winter Olympics start in Beijing. The New Zealand team send 15 athletes. The gold medal won by Zoi Sadowski-Synnott in Snowboard (Slopestyle) is New Zealand’s first ever Winter Olympic[…]
Tagged: winter olympics
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 7 Marsh
A clean sweep for Ukraine in the men’s sprint vision-impaired para biathlon at the Winter Paralympics. Brighton’s yellow and blue third kit got a run out over the weekend. The[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 27 February
So farewell to the Beijing Winter Olympics. The background to the games might have been distasteful, but what a visual onslaught it was. Olympic workers in protective clothing rest after[…]
Rewind: Beijing 2022
By Scott MacLean The Winter Olympics are over, and with it our most successful edition of it having doubled our all-time tally to six and grabbing those first-ever Winter Gold[…]
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Sporting Pictures of the Week :- Winter Olympics Special
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott’s Olympics. The panoramic beauty of the ski cross. Liubov Nikitina of the Russian Olympic Committee makes the rest of us feel better during the freestyle skiing women’s aerials[…]
Sporting Pictures of the Week :- Winter Olympics Special
Welcome to Beijing 2022. Where the opening ceremony is a bit trippy. The ski jumping course looks like it’s been lifted from a dystopian episode of the Simpsons. And there’s[…]
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New Expectations
By Scott MacLean For many New Zealanders the Winter Olympics are something of a novelty. After all, and despite having mountains and ski fields of our own, is not what[…]
Sporting pictures of the Week :- 3 October
COVID Corner. The Denver Broncos doing a Southpark themed crowd thing. We haven’t heard much from Gritty recently, but he gets it. Even this guy gets it #WARNEING. The French[…]
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Sporting pictures of the Week :- 1 March
Hamilton does strange things to people. Here is Nasser Hussain doing the walk of shame. A couple of weeks ago Seth Rance was playing T20 cricket for New Zealand. This[…]
Pyeongchang
By Scott MacLean The Winter Olympics are great aren’t they? We can watch a whole heap of sports we only see every four years, bar stumbling across them when channel[…]
