Alistair McMurran

Make no mistake about it: fans will watch rugby at Forsyth Barr Stadium.

It was down to the wire. The calculators had to be used to determine the winner of the zone six women's finals yesterday.

Hill City sprinter Daniel O'Shea will not attempt to regain his New Zealand 400m hurdles title in Auckland later this month.

Hamish bond (North End) and Fiona Bourke (University) are booked for the Olympics in London, while Fergus Fauvel (University) has a chance if the men's eight wins the qualifying regatta in Switzerland.

Taine Randell supports the New Zealand Rugby Union decision not to bail out the Otago Rugby Football Union.

The Otago Rugby Football Union's plight is not an isolated problem, Sport New Zealand chief executive Peter Miskimmin says.

Ben Smith 10, the media 0. The Otago All Black deflected all the questions fired at him after training at the Forsyth Barr Stadium yesterday.

Board members Dick Bunton and Russell Cassidy say they are sympathetic to the plight of people owed money by the Otago Rugby Football Union.

The money was not spent wisely. Alhambra-Union chairman Gary Wheeler was critical of some of the players contracted by the Otago Rugby Football Union last year.

The big throw keeps eluding Marshall Hall (Taieri) in the discus. He once again failed to break the 55m barrier at the Caledonian Ground.

It appears a majority of Otago clubs will support the mass resignation of an embattled Otago Rugby Football Union board.

There could be a second Bond at the London Olympics. Alistair Bond is poised to join elder brother Hamish in the New Zealand rowing team.

There is an ironic twist to Mark Craig's recall to the Otago team to play Central Districts in Queenstown.

The stand-out Otago rowers on the final day of the New Zealand championships were international Fiona Bourke and Kavanagh College pupils Zoe McBride and Hannah Duggan.

The London Olympics come too soon for Malcolm Hicks (Canterbury) but he is targeting the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.

No mistakes were made this time. Hill City athlete Rozie Robinson's 3km walk record was legal.

Otago sculler Lucy Strack (North End) put herself back into Olympic Games reckoning by winning a premier women's silver medal at Lake Karapiro yesterday.

Andrew Davidson is the stayer and Malcolm Hicks the sprinter.

It was a lighter Claire Giles who stood on the top of the podium seven times at the Oceania masters athletics championships in Tauranga last week.

More medals will be on the agenda for Kavanagh College pupils Zoe McBride and Hannah Duggan at Lake Karapiro today.