JULY 7 - A NEW report published today claims that hosting the Olympics damages a country's tourism market

to Australia declined for three years in a row, while tourism to the prime competitor destination, New

Zealand continued to grow consistently, ETOA said.  

  VANCOUVER 2010 is supposed to help bring Canadians together but the country's First Nation population are unhappy many of the venues have been built on land they claim belongs to them, as PAUL GAINS discovered

Canada along with the United States, Australia and New Zealand opposed the Declaration while 143 other

Paul Gains is a Canadian-based freelance writer whose work has appeared in Time, the New York Times,

 JULY 17 - BRITAIN'S young sailors are toasting triple success after claiming two gold medals and the prestigious Volvo Trophy with a day to spare at the 2008 Volvo Youth ISAF World Championships.

all the fleets, Britain currently lie on 336 points, with defending champions Australia tieing with New

Zealand in second place on 304 points.  

  THE Portuguese town of Montemor-o-Velho has been selected to host the 2010 European Rowing Championships, it has been announced.  

warm-up for the World Rowing Championships to take place shortly afterwards at Lake Karapiro in New

Zealand.

because it will be the last opportunity to test the teams before the World Rowing Championships in New

Zealand.

 THE Portuguese town of Montemor-o-Velho has been selected to host the 2010 European Rowing Championships, it has been announced.

as a warm-up for the World Rowing Championships to take place shortly afterwards at Lake Karapiro in New

Zealand.  

because it will be the last opportunity to test the teams before the World Rowing Championships in New

Zealand.  

 THE Portuguese town of Montemor-o-Velho has been selected to host the 2010 European Rowing Championships, it has been announced.

as a warm-up for the World Rowing Championships to take place shortly afterwards at Lake Karapiro in New

Zealand.  

because it will be the last opportunity to test the teams before the World Rowing Championships in New

Zealand.  

 BRITAIN'S Andrew Johns (pictured) won a bronze medal in the BG Triathlon World Cup in Plymouth, New

Zealand today.

success in switching from becoming a medal-winning rower to a gold-medal winning cyclist has inspired New

Zealand to set up a programme to find a top-class female for London 2012.

New Zealand's national track coach Tim Carswell said: "They were quite a number of outstanding applications

his comeback to rowing late last year for a tilt at the Beijing Olympics, had encouraged her to try a new

"Our family's basically complete and I'm ready for a new challenge and a new goal and this is an incredibly

"It's a completely new sport for me but there have been lot of examples of rowers successfully turning

It could be the third sport that Waddell has represented New Zealand in.  

  THE North-West have pulled off another coup by agreeing a deal for 15 countries from Oceania to base themselves in the region in the build-up to London 2012.

(NOCs) of Oceania but the deal with the North West Development Agency (NWDA) excludes Australia and New

Zealand, who are making their own pre-Games training camp arrrangements.  

The remaining 15 Pacific Island countries, including Fiji and Papua New Guinea, will use the North West

Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New

ISAF) has recommended that the Elliott 6m (pictured) be chosen as the equipment to be used for for the new

  If the proposal, first put forward by New Zealand, is accepted by the ISAF Events Committee and

 JULY 10 - BRITISH SWIMMERS have won their first gold medal at the World Youth Championships in Monterrey, Mexico, today thanks to Daniel Sliwinski (pictured).

in 1min 02.19sec, breaking the previous British long course record for his age group, and creating a new

Gold went to the New Zealand swimmer Daniel Bell, who finished in 55.32.

  NEW ZEALAND are among the countries that Colchester is talking too about staging a pre-Games training

Colchester’s Olympic Partnership, denied the accusations and claimed that they had been talking to New

Zealand and Fiji about basing themselves there before London 2012.  

 JUNE 8 - BRITAIN'S Helen Tucker (pictured) pulled off one of the greatest upsets in triathlon history as she was crowned as the world champion today in Vancouver.

Further back New Zealand ’s Samantha Warriner pipped Australia ’s Erin Densham for bronze

"Vancouver is my new favourite place," said a delighted Tucker, shortly after crossing the finish line

under-23 world champion, Gregor Buchholz of Germany, showed off his strong finishing kick to edge out New

Spain's Javier Gomez finished 24 seconds ahead of 2004 Olympics silver medallist Bevan Docherty of New

Zealand, with Switzerland's Reto Hug third.  

 AUGUST 26 - NEW ZEALAND'S Olympic athletes are set to receive more funding to help them prepare for

Helen Clark has now promised to review the amount of funding New Zealand athletes receive to help them

"The first thing is for Sparc (Sport and Recreation New Zealand) to do a review for Government on how

New Zealand spent NZ$65 million (£24.7 million) on high performance sport between Athens and Beijing,

New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) president Barry Maister is hoping that any extra money could be

Rowing NZ's high performance manager Andrew Matheson welcomed the idea of a link-up between New Zealand

 JUNE 22 - NEWLY-CROWNED triathlon world champion, Helen Tucker (pictured), continued her impressive run of form with a third place finish behind Australia’s Emma Snowsill and Emma Moffatt, at the BG Triathlon World Cup in Des Moines, Iowa, today.

Denmark ’s Rasmus Henning broke away late on the run to defend his Des Moines title ahead of New

Zealand’s Bevan Docherty and Australia’s Greg Bennett.