Sunday, August 17, 2008

New Zealands Medal Day!

Yesterday New Zealand won our first medal with Mahe Drysdale winning bronze in the Mens Single Sculls. Through all his illness he still made it to the final and gave it everything.
For more about this race go to:
Next, still in the rowing section Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater won another bronze in the Mens Pair event.
For more about this race go to:
Next, still in the rowing section Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell topped of the rowing events by coming first in their nail biting race.
For more about this race go to:
Ok, now the cycling. Hayden Roulston won silver in the 4000m individual pursuit at the Laoshan Velodrome in Beijing. He was racing for the gold but sadly didn't make it.
For more about this race go to:
http://tvnz.co.nz/content/2009037
Just to top the day off, Valerie Vili won gold in the Woman's Shotput final. She threw 20.56 metres beating the Belarusians.
For more about this event go to:

2 comments:

Nei-Nei Neina-Marie said...

*Cough Cough* GO VALARIE! She is so good! Did you see when she walked around, with all these miniscle shotput people in front of her. She wasted everyone!

And the everswindells! Phew! By a hundreth of a second... wow.
Five medals in a day. Has to be a ercord!

Lyinda said...

Yeah go New Zealand! Hope we win more medals.