By David GoldApril 14 - The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) has reported a profit of NZ$9.6 million (£5

cost effective way of working more closely with existing sponsors and partners and to better develop new

By Tom DegunApril 13 - Paralympics New Zealand and Equestrian Sports New Zealand (ESNZ) have named Rachel

The two riders are the first New Zealand equestriennes to make the Paralympics in eight years, after

Zealand chief executive Fiona Allan said."

Zealand proud when they take on the world in London."

New Zealand is giving us every opportunity and now it is down to Ricky [her horse] and me," said Stock

Meanwhile, Gunner is still coming to terms with being named officially for the New Zealand team.The

By David GoldApril 12 - World champions Japan (pictured in blue) laid down a marker for the London 2012 women's football tournament with a 4-1 win over Brazil (pictured in yellow) to lift the Kirin Cup in Kobe.

time, eventually going to penalties.This week the women's line up for London 2012 was confirmed when New

Zealand beat Papua New Guinea in the Oceania qualifiers.North Korea, Britain, South Africa, Cameroon

By Tom DegunApril 10 - New Zealand sevens men's head coach Gordon Tietjens (pictured) will lead his country

for the first time at the Rio 2016 Olympics after he signed a four-year contract extension with the New

Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU).

I love coaching the New Zealand sevens team, it's a special team and I've worked with a lot of special

The extension will also see Tietjens work with New Zealand women's sevens head coach Sean Horan in the

Zealand to gold."

Zealand," said Tew."

Zealand women's sevens teamNovember 2011: Funding boost could take New Zealand to double rugby

David GoldApril 4 - The line-up for the London 2012 women's football tournament is now complete after New

Zealand annihilated Papua New Guinea 15-0 on aggregate in the final Oceania group qualifying tie.

The victory means both New Zealand's men's and women's teams have qualified for this summer's Olympic

Games.The Kiwi women (pictured top) thrashed the Papua New Guineans 7-0 in the second leg at Port Moresby

Zealand go in at half-time four up.Anna Green, Betsy Hassett and Gregorius completed the rout in the

Zealand an unassailable first-leg advantage.Tougher tests will undoubtedly lie ahead for the Kiwi women

Zealand coach Tony Readings."

By David GoldApri 2 - Abby Bishop has earned the Maher Medal, the award for the Women's Australian International Basketball Player of the Year.

2012 Olympic Games.Bishop logged 26 points in the crucial third game of a qualifying series against New

Zealand last year.She was also key in the Australian Women's University Games team that claimed bronze

Bose was handed the men's Rookie of the Year award after averaging 15.5 points for Sydney Kings.New Zealand

By Mike RowbottomBritons, famously, are obsessed with a nice cup of tea. Miss Jane Marple. She liked nothing better than a nice cup of tea. Apart from solving gruesome murders, that is. And Boy George. He liked tea better than sex, or at least he once said he did before it turned out that he preferred heroin more than anything.When Ben Rushgrove, Britain's Paralympic and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) world 100 metre silver medallist, starts talking about a nice cup of tea, or more accurately a good cup of tea, it soon becomes clear that he is talking about more...

withdraw from the subsequent 200m event.Last year, at the IPC World Championships in Christchurch, New

Zealand, the Briton collected another 100m silver after beating Pavlyk (pictured far left) but narrowly

By David GoldMarch 25 - New Zealand have qualified for the London 2012 Olympic football tournament after

Zealand a penalty in the 18th minute.Greg Draper scored, and it proved enough to edge out Fiji, who

Vanuatu claimed bronze with a 1-0 win over Papua New Guinea in the third place play-off."

New Zealand will now be going to their second successive Olympic Games, and will hope to improve on their

Zealand yet to clinch semis spotMarch 2012: Seven teams to battle in Oceania's Olympic men's football

Zealand

By Mike RowbottomMarch 25 - France's Laurent Vidal claimed his first ITU triathlon World Cup win with an electrifying sprint in Mooloolaba.

the 2012 season.He then dedicated his debut win to his adopted home of Christchurch and the people of New

Zealand."

qualifiers for this summer's London Olympics were postponed following extreme weather conditions in Taupo, New

Zealand.

that a turnaround of 24 hours between matches should be avoided," the OFC said on their website.New Zealand

face Vanautu.Vanuatu lost 2-1 to Fiji in the clash to decide who won Group A.Fiji will now play Papua New

nbsp; [email protected] storiesMarch 2012: Oceania London 2012 qualifiers host New

qualifiersFebruary 2012: Legal row forces Oceania London 2012 qualifiers to be moved from Fiji to New

Zealand

By David GoldMarch 19 - Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu are all through to the semi-finals of the

Oceania men's football qualifiers for London 2012, but hosts New Zealand are yet to seal their last four

Papua New Guinea lost to the hosts New Zealand in the opening Group B match in Taupo at the Owen Delany

Park, but beat Tonga 3-0 to secure their semi-final place.Tonga face New Zealand in the final group

Meanwhile, Frank Farina, the former Australia manager and now Papua New Guinea coach, said after they

qualifiersFebruary 2012: Legal row forces Oceania London 2012 qualifiers to be moved from Fiji to New

Zealand

By Mike RowbottomMarch 18 - Shanaze Reade (pictured) has said that Birmingham's UCI BMX World Championships will be "harder to win than the Olympics" due to the larger field of riders at May's event, where she will seek her fourth title.

champion Mariana Pajon (pictured above, front) of Columbia and last year's runner-up Sarah Walker, from New

Zealand, as the main threats but expected every country to raise the bar in an Olympic year."

"Mariana Pajon from Columbia is a fantastic rider and Sarah Walker from New Zealand is another rider

By Tom DegunMarch 17 - Singapore has the capabilities to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games if it decides to bid, a leading Government official there has claimed.

 The Commonwealth Games Movement is known to be keen to take the event to a new territory which

having declared that it will bid for the competition and Hambantota in Sri Lanka said to be discussing a new

failure to secure the 2018 event, which went to Australia's Gold Coast.Reports suggest Christchurch in New

Zealand is another city looking to bid as part of a major rebuilding mission following devastating earthquakes

CGF PresidentNovember 2011: Exclusive - I want lots of bidders for 2022 Commonwealth Games says new

By David GoldMarch 16 - Oceania's Olympic men's football qualifiers get underway today in New Zealand

will include American Samoa (pictured below), Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, with Tonga, Papua New

Guinea and New Zealand in Group B.New Zealand will be the overwhelming favourites to win the tournament

Papua New Guinea lost to New Zealand, Fiji and the Solomon Islands in qualifiers for Beijing 2008 and

Zealand and almost finished second."

Zealand

By David GoldMarch 17 - An athlete who set up an escort agency has won a place on New Zealand's taekwondo

Logan Campbell (pictured above) opened the escort agency, which is not illegal in New Zealand, with a

Zealand at the Games in the under 60kg class, was also at Beijing 2008, when he came in the top 16 in

the featherweight class.He did though sell the agency in 2010 after being criticised by the New Zealand

Olympic Committee and Taekwondo New Zealand."

I think what happened was when they [the New Zealand Olympic Committee] first found out about it, I think