The skills of the Japanese and Korean figure skaters at the inaugural Winter Games will linger long in the memory of the 1000 spectators at the Dunedin Ice Stadium yesterday.
Vivian Cheng (Wellington) will use the Great Naseby Water Race 50km event today as a warm-up for an ultra-distance international.
The New Zealand women's team nearly pulled off a huge upset in the semifinal of the women's curling yesterday when it fell just short of beating China.
China and the United States will play a tie-breaker to determine the fourth men's semifinalist at the Winter Games curling today.
The Southern Stampede faces the Canterbury Red Devils in a double-header in Queenstown this weekend that will decide which team will host the New Zealand Ice Hockey League final.
Australian skip Hugh Millikin (53), the oldest curler at the Winter Games, has played a key role in Australia's top position at the championships.
Korea's decision to hold a figure skating training camp at the Dunedin Ice Stadium next year is a coup for Dunedin, which is poised to become the ice sports capital of the southern hemisphere.
When Warren Kearney was growing up in Ranfurly he wanted to be an All Black like his great uncle.
A change of tactics helped the New Zealand women's team win its first match yesterday.
There is still ice on the course and the natural luge demonstration sport will be held at at Naseby on Sunday.
It was a dismal day for Chinese curlers, with both the men's and women's teams beaten yesterday.
New Zealand ice hockey came of age when the Ice Blacks beat Australia 5-4 at the Dunedin Ice Stadium last night.
Beating Australia in the test last night gave Ice Blacks goal tender Zak Nothling a sweet feeling.
Canada is the only team capable of stopping China from winning two curling gold medals at the New Zealand Winter Games.
Striker Simon Glass is back and keen to put the record straight against Australia in the Winter Games ice hockey tests this weekend.
Waitaki Boys High School was beaten but not disgraced in the final of the Highlanders First XV competition in Invercargill yesterday evening.
Auckland does not want her, but the Otago Spirit has jumped at the chance to have Black Ferns great Anna Richards in its team as a loan player for the national championship.
Black Sticks striker Katie Glynn has two hockey mums - her mother, Pat Glynn, and New Zealand manager Debbie Balme.
Steve Varga entered the record books when he won his fourth New Zealand powerlifting title in Auckland recently.
New Zealand beat Australia at the Oceania Cup on the Queensland Gold Coast in 2007 to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games.
