New Zealand had one of it's greatest sporting days in history on our Saturday.
To start the night of the New Zealand Warriors won the rugby league against the higher ranked Cronulla Sharks to send us into the 8th playoff spot for the first time this season.
Then we won Bronze through a fantastic effort by three-time world champion in the mens single sculls by Mahe Drysdale. He lost 4kg throughout the week, and was so sick he shouldn't have even been racing, yet he turned up and only lost the race because he started to feel the effects of his illness in the last 150m. So sad but so proud.
Then gold by 0.01s (a la Phelps) and bronze in the mens pairs. Later on in the night bad boy Hayden Roulston got the silver in the mens individual pursuit, unexpected but great.
Valerie Vili then smashed the competition with a gold medal in the womens shotput.
To finish the night off, the All Blacks made history by keeping South Africa scoreless on their own home ground 19-0. No All Blacks side has ever done that and I believe you could count the numbers of total teams in history to do this on one hand. How hard is it to keep South Africa scoreless in South Africa let along even win in South Africa.
What a night!
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