Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:06 am, August 14th, 2016 - 9 comments
Congratulations to all the athletes representing NZ at the Olympics!
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 9:31 am, July 1st, 2010 - 36 comments
Desperate to gain some traction in his failing campaign, John Banks has floated the idea of Auckland hosting the Olympic Games in 2020. Current minimum estimates for the cost are $18 billion, that’s 10% of our GDP. It’s just too expensive. The Olympics is a black-hole for money that this country cannot afford. That Banks would suggest this nonsense shows how all at sea his campaign is.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 10:47 am, May 20th, 2008 - 8 comments
Oscar Pistorius now the chance to become the first amputee to compete on the track at the Olympics. The 21-year-old who runs on artificial carbon fibre legs has been cleared to compete at the Beijing Olympics if he can make the qualifying time (he needs to take about a second off his personal best). Initially Oscar was barred from […]
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 4:34 pm, May 6th, 2008 - 9 comments
Amnesty UK has just released the first of four animations intended to highlight human rights abuses in China during the lead-up to the Olympic Games.
https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.jsKatherine Mansfield left New Zealand when she was 19 years old and died at the age of 34.In her short life she became our most famous short story writer, acquiring an international reputation for her stories, poetry, letters, journals and reviews. Biographies on Mansfield have been translated into 51 ...
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