Dylan

Valerie Adams and the Shot-put

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As she goes to pick up a shot-put she notices there are no shot-put's she calls up the man and say's that their are no shot-put's in the box he said he would go and get one of her. He came back a couple of minutes later and said that their were none here in the Arena but that they would keep looking. Another 5 minutes past before he returned and said that they had just simply vanished ======

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By now the crowd did not seem very happy with this because the last person to throw was 10 minutes ago and they were all hyped up because they thought that Valerie Adams would get beaten by the competitor before and they were waiting for Valerie Adams to beat the girl before her and maybe set a new world record and get gold for New Zealand. So they weren't very happy because neither would you if you were as hyped as these people here ======

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Another minute past before a volunteer ran up to the man and said that they had seen a man walking away with the rest of the shot-put's and that they had ran after him which was very easy because he had a very heavy load to carry. ======

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So they struggled but managed to bring the rest of the shot-puts back and Valerie Adams of New Zealand managed to wipe everyone and absolutely smash the world record and later on win the gold medal for New Zealand and, they found out that the man who stole the shot-put box was in the country of the competitor that challenged Valerie Adams rein as champion and gold medalist. And he was sure and very jealous that Valerie Adams was going to wipe her. But in the end Valerie won gold, The Challenger got silver and surprisingly an under dog got bronze. ======


 * Reporter: Dylan Anderson**


 * Our Golden Hour **

Double gold, double delight ... New Zealand's rowers last night turned the Olympic course into their personal playground. Super-scullers Eric Murray and Hamish Bond smashed through their final challenge, winning the only challenge left for them to overcome in the past four years. Forty minutes later, Mahe Drysdale slapped the water in joy as he joined them in finally achieving the gold that he deserved since Beijing, 4 Years ago. Drysdale's gold completed the haul as New Zealand's 20th Olympic rowing medal - including nine other golds - and the third at this regatta, after Nathan Cohen and Joseph Sullivan's victory in the double scull 24 hours earlier. Over the past 4 years Murray and Bond have remained totally unbeaten while Drysdale has had to work hard to hold off his fiercest rival, Czech Republic sculler, Ondrej Synek. Emotion overcame the 33-year-old, Drysdale, and he collapsed on the pontoon. It was a full four minutes before he was able to stand, breathless, realising the enormity of his achievement. Long-time rival Synek embraced him with sincere sportsmanship. These two back-to-back victories drew a reminder for many of the Murray Halberg & Peter Snell's golden hour on the Olympic track at Rome, 1960. New Zealand have now achieved a remarkable 5 medals so far at the games, with more expected in the coming days. When Drysdale was struck by illness in the days leading up to the final in Beijing, he had to settle for a bronze medal. But five-times world champion Drysdale will feel vindicated by today's victory. In front of his friends and family, he had his nose in front of Synek at the halfway point. Then he put in a strong third quarter hanging on to win in 6m 57.82s, 1.55s ahead of the Czech with Britain's Alan Campbell third. "I can't really believe it," Drysdale said after the race. "I've been working for this for 12 years. "I had absolutely nothing in that last bit and I could see Synek coming at me. It was just a matter of trying to hold on. I'm so happy I did." Only forty minutes earlier, Bond and Murray had crossed the line in 6m 16.65s in front of the packed stands and their crazy supporters. A long five seconds behind them came the French crew of Germain Chardin and Dorian Mortelette, closely followed by George Nash and William Satch of Great Britain. The only part of the race that seemed undecided was for the silver and bronze medals. "Before the semis, I said we were at the Hillary Step, with the summit in sight," Bond said. "But now we're there and no one can take that away from us. "Whatever happens in the future, we'll know that over these four years we've achieved anything anyone could have set out to do in the pair." On the start line, Bond looked relaxed and focused, whereas Murray seemed slightly more nervous and pumped up, matching their personalities. When they left the boat they looked like they had simply been out for a quick training row. At the halfway mark they were 1.5s ahead and they seemed to stop making a contest of it by the third quarter, finally crossing the 1500m line 5.2s ahead of everyone else. Their record of success over the past four years is astonishing and possibly unprecedented. Not once has a boat crossed a finishing line in front of them. Rivalries have been invented but the simple truth is that they are peerless. They are coached by Richard Tonks, a truly now-legendary mentor with a very simple philosophy: keep doing the stuff that makes the boat go fast, strip away all the extra stuff. There would have been no big pre-race pep talk, just a simple message to go out and do what they've always done. Which they did. With an entire cheer-team of 4.3million behind them. They might not share a lot in common off the water, but Bond and Murray now have an unbreakable link as they enter New Zealand sporting folklore. We already believed that they were special, somewhere beyond brilliant. Their gold medals have totally confirmed it for them all now.



1983-04-30 22  5' 5"/1.65m  Weight  77 KG  Richard Patterson A.K.A Richie is 1 out of 4 New Zealand weightlifter for the London 2012 Olympics.  In the Beijing Olympics he got 21st overall.  In the Commonwealth Games he got a silver medal for NZ in weight lifting.  His ultimate goal is to become New Zealand’s best weightlifter ever.  His Idol is Nigel Avery because he used to go and watch him at his boarding school gym.  All of the new Zealand weight lifters ([|Nigel Avery], [|Olivia Baker], [|John Bolton,][|Harold Cleghorn], [|Tony Ebert], [|Brian Marsden], [|Don Oliver]) New Zealand has never won a medal in the Olympics for weightlifting.
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