Top Otago swimmers Shane Patience and Phoebe Williams are in heavy training and will not be tapering for the New Zealand summer championships in Christchurch, starting today.
Otago rugby bosses say they do not expect former Otago All Black Carl Hayman to break his multimillion-dollar contract with Newcastle and return to New Zealand.
Experienced South African umpire Rudi Koertzen supports the use of television to help umpires in test matches and would like to see it extended.
The tough fitness regime of former Australian rugby league star Steve Folkes will be put to the test when the West Indies face New Zealand in the first cricket test at the University Oval tomorrow.
Dunedin's John Winsbury's hopes of winning the Kepler Challenge were dashed at Te Anau on Saturday when he finished fourth in the gruelling 60km mountain race.
Dunedin's John Winsbury will be attempting to turn second into first during the 21st annual Kepler Challenge on the mountains around Te Anau tomorrow.
The Mainland Challenge marching championships will be held at Carisbrook at the weekend. But a covered indoor stadium is needed to stage future New Zealand championships.
Jiujitsu was the discipline that helped Philip Lindsay lose 30kg and turn his life around.
Internationally Ian Dickison is ranked No 1.
Green Island bowler Lyn Rance has won 14 Bowls Dunedin titles and is poised to become only the fourth Dunedin woman to add a double bar to her gold star.
The steady improvement in Otago junior tennis over the past three years was demonstrated when nine players from the province were selected for the Southern Districts teams for the national team championships next month.
Otago athletics is poised to return to the golden summer it experienced in the 1970s when its athletes made a mark on the international scene.
Record breakers Alistair McKay (Southland) and Ron Stevens (Canterbury), who entered masters athletics in different ways, were in dominant mood at the South Island championships at the weekend.
Faye Cosgrove reached a significant milestone when she won her 10th Bowls Dunedin title and added a bar to her gold star yesterday.
William Lucas came close to a world barefoot record.
Olympian Kashi Leuchs will face a strong challenge from current international Marcus Roy in the gruelling 75.4km marathon Bannockburn Gutbuster in the Central Otago heat today.
SPARC has set high targets for New Zealand elite sport over the next four years - 10 medals at the London Olympics in 2012 and wins in the rugby, netball and cricket World Cups.
New Zealand junior representative Brad Evans is a third-generation cyclist who reaped the benefits of the family tradition at the Oceania championships at Adelaide last week.
Mahe Drysdale has put the disappointment of the Beijing Olympics behind him and has set his sights on retaining his world single sculls crown in Poland next year.
Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie struck the right chord when he retained the national Edwina Thompson Silver Tray Invitation title in Hawkes Bay last week.
