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  • NZ men's and women's sevens do double in Singapore

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    Sport
    6 May 2024
    Tyla King celebrates the Black Ferns Sevens win in Singapore 2024.

    The New Zealand men's and women's sevens teams have won the Singapore leg of the World Series with the Black Ferns Sevens crowned regular season winners.

    NZ men's and women's sevens do double in Singapore
  • Sports History NZ: Coming Soon

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    history sport
    3 May 2024
    Peter Snell, arms raised crossing the finish line at the Olympic Games. The words 'Sports History NZ' are overlaid in a striped font.

    Jesse Mulligan, host of the daily Afternoons programme on RNZ, talks to our athletes, administrators and journalists about major moments in New Zealand sport. Audio

  • Sporting History NZ: Mahé Drysdale

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    history sport
    2 May 2024
    Mahé Drysdale showing off his medal after winning gold at the London Olympics in 2012.

    For Sporting History NZ today we talk to Olympic gold winning rower Mahé Drysdale.  Audio

  • Pasifika Sipoti wrap

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    Pacific
    26 Apr 2024
    Vanuatu players celebrate in the match against Zimbabwe in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. Photo: ICC

    A wrap of sport that took place this week from around the region, including cricket, rugby and soccer.

    Pasifika Sipoti wrap
  • Anzac Day: 'It was a shrine, it was a mini orchestra'

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    New Zealand history
    25 Apr 2024
    Michael Atherton has written a history of the piano in Australia.

    Emeritus Professor Michael Atherton shares the remarkable efforts of troops to get pianos to the front during World War II. Audio

    Anzac Day: Michael Atherton on history of pianos during World War II
  • Could you play chess for 58 hours - and counting?

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    World sport
    20 Apr 2024
    Chess consultant and player Tunde Onakoya (C/L) gestures as he addresses children during a chess class at Ogolonto in Ikorodu district of Lagos on August 17, 2019. In front of chess boards in Lagos, children are busy, concentrating. They are thinking about the next move they will make, as part of a project that is supposed to bring hope to a slum in Nigeria's megapolis. While dozens of matches are played simultaneously, participants, some as young as three years old, practice this brain game often considered out of reach for the poor populations of Africa's most populous country. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)

    Under the beaming lights of New York's iconic Times Square, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya has broken the record for the longest chess marathon.

    Tunde Onakoya: Nigerian breaks chess marathon record
  • 15-strong NZ athletics team named for Olympics

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    Sport
    19 Apr 2024
    New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr celebrates winning the Men’s High Jump Final at the 2024 World Indoor Athletic Championships, Glasgow

    A pair of reigning World Indoor champions and two former Olympic medallists headline the athletics team for this year's Paris Olympics.

    15-strong NZ athletics team named for Olympics
  • V8s roar into Taupō for historic NZ comeback

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    Sport
    19 Apr 2024
    Cameron Hill’s Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet Camaro will feature a new ‘All Black’ livery in spirit of New Zealand’s return to the Repco Supercars Championship calendar.

    The historic first Supercars Championship at Taupō International Motorsport Park takes place this weekend.

    V8s roar into Taupō for historic NZ comeback
  • NZ Sporting History with Ryan Fox

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    sport
    18 Apr 2024
    Ryan Fox at the US Masters.

    Today's NZ Sporting History guest is from a family of well known sporting achievers. Golfer Ryan Fox has just finished competing at the Masters in the US and he's also New Zealand's highest ranked… Audio

  • Fever pitch: Caitlin Clark WNBA merchandise reportedly sells at record pace

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    Sport
    17 Apr 2024
    Caitlin Clark poses with WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert after being selected first overall pick by the Indiana Fever during the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music on April 15, 2024 in New York City.

    US Basketball star Caitlin Clark sets another record as shirts from her new WNBA team sell out.

    Fever pitch: Caitlin Clark WNBA merchandise reportedly sells at record pace
  • Pasifika Sipoti - wrap and results from the weekend

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    Pacific
    15 Apr 2024
    Tonga kicked off their campaign with a 3-0 victory over American Samoa.

    Tonga and Solomons unbeaten at OFC Under-16 event; Tennis wraps up in Tahiti; and Moana Pasifika climbs to eighth spot.

    Pasifika Sipoti - wrap and results from the weekend
  • OJ Simpson dies, aged 76

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    World
    12 Apr 2024
    (FILES) O.J. Simpson shows the jury a new pair of Aris extra-large gloves, similar to the gloves found at the Bundy and Rockingham crime scene 21 June 1995, during his double murder trial in Los Angeles, California. Deputy Sheriff Roland Jex(L) and Prosecutor Christopher Darden (R) look on. Simpson has died at the age of 76, his family said on April 11, 2024. (Photo by VINCE BUCCI / POOL / AFP)

    The former American footballer who was controversially cleared of double murder in the "trial of the century".

    OJ Simpson, NFL star acquitted in ‘trial of the century’, dies aged 76
  • NZ Sporting History: Sandra Edge

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    sport
    11 Apr 2024
    Sandra Edge is one of the greats of New Zealand netball.

    Sandra Edge won the complete set of World Championship medals - gold in 1987, silver in 1991, and bronze in 1995. She captained the Silver Ferns through 21 tests from 1994 to 1995, and played 89 test… Audio

  • 'No regrets': Paralympian calls time on golden career

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    In Case You Missed It sport
    9 Apr 2024
    Lisa Adams winner of the women's F37 shot put with her gold medal during the medal ceremony at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Tokyo, Japan, Saturday 28 August 2021.

    World and Paralympic shot put champion Lisa Adams has decided to retire from the sport with immediate effect.

    Paralympian Lisa Adams calls time on golden career
  • Muhammad Ali's 'Thrilla in Manila' trunks expected to sell for $10m

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    World sport
    6 Apr 2024
    FILE - A file picture dated 30 September 1975 shows US boxer Muhammad Ali (L) hitting the head of his opponent Joe Frazier during their bout in Manila, Philippines. Born Cassius Clay, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, dubbed 'The Greatest,' died on 03 June 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, at the age of 74, a family spokesman said. Photo: dpa (Photo by UPI / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

    Ali's iconic white satin shorts are up for sale with renowned auction house Sotheby's.

    Muhammad Ali's 'Thrilla in Manila' trunks expected to sell for $10m
  • Muhammad Ali's trunks from 'Thrilla in Manila' up for sale

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    World sport
    5 Apr 2024
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    Muhammad Ali's white satin boxing trunks from his epic 'Thrilla in Manila' bout with rival Joe Frazier are up for auction and expected to sell for upwards of $10 million.

    Muhammad Ali's trunks from 'Thrilla in Manila' up for sale
  • NZ Sporting History: Marise Chamberlain

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    history sport
    4 Apr 2024
    Marise Chamberlain at the 1964 Olympics

    Marise Chamberlain is one of our best-ever track competitors and only woman from New Zealand to have won a track medal at the Olympics.  Audio

  • How the Olympics' gender split disadvantages netball

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    Sport
    4 Apr 2024
    Silver Ferns lineup for the national anthem.

    Analysis - The IOC is committed to a 50:50 gender split - but what does it mean for a sport there for women when it wasn't so fair?

    How the Olympics' pursuit of a 50:50 gender split disadvantages netball
  • All Black legend fears for future of the game

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    New Zealand Sport
    2 Apr 2024
    Tana Umaga runs out onto the field before the Super 14 match between the Hurricanes and the Waratahs in 2007

    Former All Black captain Tana Umaga wants to see crowds return to rugby.

    All Black legend Tana Umaga fears for future of the game
  • NZ Sporting History: Stephen Swart

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    sport
    28 Mar 2024
    Lance Armstrong at the 2009 Tour de France in Monaco

    This week on NZ Sporting history we speak to cyclist Stephen Swart who was an integral part of the group which finally exposed Lance Armstrong's drug cheating to the world. Stephen was named New… Audio

  • 'The oldest national netball body in the world': Netball NZ turns 100

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    sport
    27 Mar 2024
    Joan Harnett shoots a goal for the Silver Ferns. Harnett played for New Zealand between 1963 and 1971.

    Netball New Zealand is celebrating 100 years this May. RNZ reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe has been looking into the sport's history, legacy and challenges. Audio

  • Pasifika Sipoti weekend wrap

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    Pacific
    25 Mar 2024

    Send your weekend sports results to be included in Pasifika Sipoti's weekly update published every Monday.

    Pasifika Sipoti weekend wrap
  • Fiscal bombs, Nazi comments and high-octane coverage for Peters

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    New Zealand Politics
    22 Mar 2024
    New Zealand First leader Winston Peters

    Analysis: The NZ First leader dropped a problem on his own government and then got into a bizarre row, Peter Wilson writes.

    Week in Politics: Fiscal bomb, Nazi comments ensure high-octane coverage for Winston Peters
  • NZ Sporting History: Emma Twigg

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    history sport
    21 Mar 2024
    Emma Twigg NZ Women's Single Scull.
World Championships, Austria, 2019.

    For today's NZ Sporting history we speak to one of Aotearoa's rowing greats, Emma Twigg. She's one of our most successful women's rowers claiming gold in Tokyo 2020 for the single scull event. Audio

  • How netball trailblazers carved a place for women and girls in NZ sport

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    Sport
    20 Mar 2024
    Netball being played in New Zealand in 1929.

    It's been the number one sport for women and girls in this country for more than 100 years. As Netball NZ gears up for its centenary, Bridget Tunnicliffe looks at how the sport carved its own path.

    How netball trailblazers carved a place for women and girls in NZ sport
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