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Sport New Zealand is the main government agency responsible for governing sport and recreation in New Zealand. It was established in 2003 by the Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002, consolidating three agencies into one, and was known as Sport and Recreation New Zealand (SPARC) until February 2012. Sport New Zealand is accountable to the ...
The New Zealand men's national football team ( Māori: Tīma hoka a-motu o Aotearoa; recognised as Aotearoa New Zealand by FIFA [ 4]) represents New Zealand in men's international football competitions. The team is governed by the governing body for football in New Zealand, New Zealand Football (NZF), which is currently a member of FIFA and the ...
Wherever they put it, American Shelby McEwen and world indoor champion Hamish Kerr of New Zealand couldn’t clear it in a jump off for the high jump title at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. It ...
Many of the national sports teams of New Zealand have been given nicknames, officially or otherwise, based on the iconic status of the All Blacks rugby team, and (mostly in the case of female teams) the silver tree fern ( Cyathea dealbata) of their logo. [1] The practice became controversial when Badminton New Zealand used the name "Black Cocks ...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Eden Park had been waiting to explode despite zero evidence that the chance would ever come. It filled Thursday night for a Women’s World Cup opener dampened by a ...
The Philippines' Sarina Bolden celebrates after scoring her team's first goal during the Women's World Cup Group A soccer match between New Zealand and the Philippines in Wellington, New Zealand ...
Sky Sport 1 is the original Sky Television sport channel in New Zealand. It was first introduced in 1990 as Sky Sport on the Sky UHF service. When Sky Sport began it operated between the hours of noon and around midnight, and occasionally screened live sports events outside these hours. By July 1991, Sky Sport commenced 24-hour transmission ...
New Zealand Football is the governing body for the sport of association football in New Zealand.It oversees the seven New Zealand Football federations, as well as the New Zealand men's national football team (nicknamed the "All Whites"), the national junior and women's teams (nicknamed the "Football Ferns"), the men's and women's national Leagues New Zealand National League, National Women's ...