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As Lydia Ko won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympic games and became the only human with two Olympic golf medals, the young kiwi-Korean wrapped up a fun Olympic campaign for Aotearoa's wahine.
That Lisa Carrington knows her way to a medal, doesn’t she? Truly one of the dominant Olympic athletes of the twenty-first century in her chosen sport. That was the third straight time she’s won the K-1 200m gold and she wasn’t done there either.
The official NZ Olympic Committee target was 16 total medals. At The Niche Cache we’re more ambitious so we set a mark of 8 golds and 20 total medals and wouldn’t you know it we’re halfway there.
Another major tournament for Black Sticks Men and another rather disappointing campaign.
A couple of potential medallists there that weren’t able to get it done. That’s the way of the Olympics. Not every medal hope is going to actually bring one home... in fact most of them are probably gonna miss out. But this is New Zealand’s biggest ever contingent of athletes sent to a Games so there’s plenty more where they came from.
The latest Tokyo Olympics blog features a fun weekend for Black Sticks Hockey, a tough Football night against Honduras and a couple more notes from around Team Aotearoa.
Different sports come in waves, different teams/athletes emerge as genuine world-class talents and command such attention. Olympics time puts different sports in the spotlight - it's time to ride the Olympics wave.
The team has been finalised. 211 athletes will represent Aotearoa with that fern on their chests, the largest ever contingent that New Zealand has sent to an Olympic Games beating the 199 who went to Rio in 2016.