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<blockquote data-quote="darwin_23" data-source="post: 285967">&lt;div class=&#039;quotetop&#039;&gt;QUOTE (Infern0 @ Nov 6 2009, 01:34 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=419494" target="_blank">&lt;{POST_SNAPBACK}&gt;</a>&lt;/div&gt;You forget tiddlywink and Bingo!&nbsp; Wow Bobsleigh, Skiing, MMA, Snooker, Darts, Curling - what an elite list of sports we struggle at (and you thought some of the sports that I listed were obscure!)!&nbsp; You are correct that we struggle at winter spots, which is strange as we have such great conditions for these sports. I will note we are actually ok at Curling, ranked 14th in the world (England incidentally are 23rd!). We also don&#039;t do overly well in individual sports (Darts, Snooker, Tennis etc), and as I&#039;ve mentioned we aren&#039;t the greatest soccer nation on earth.&nbsp; On boxing, yes Tua is Samoan but he learnt to box in NZ and has spent the majority of his life here - I&#039;m sure NZ can take some credit in making him the boxer he is today - do you really think he would be as good if he had stayed in Samoa?Yes you have listed some (obscure) sports that New Zealand doesn&#039;t excel in - I have listed almost the same number of (real) sports that New Zealand is amongst the top couple of nations in the world - my point is New Zealand certainly doesn&#039;t epically fail at every sport. We do however, like every other country, have sports that we struggle at (like the illustrious sport of bobsledding).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="darwin_23, post: 285967"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Infern0 @ Nov 6 2009, 01:34 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=419494']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> You forget tiddlywink and Bingo! Wow Bobsleigh, Skiing, MMA, Snooker, Darts, Curling - what an elite list of sports we struggle at (and you thought some of the sports that I listed were obscure!)! You are correct that we struggle at winter spots, which is strange as we have such great conditions for these sports. I will note we are actually ok at Curling, ranked 14th in the world (England incidentally are 23rd!). We also don't do overly well in individual sports (Darts, Snooker, Tennis etc), and as I've mentioned we aren't the greatest soccer nation on earth. On boxing, yes Tua is Samoan but he learnt to box in NZ and has spent the majority of his life here - I'm sure NZ can take some credit in making him the boxer he is today - do you really think he would be as good if he had stayed in Samoa? Yes you have listed some (obscure) sports that New Zealand doesn't excel in - I have listed almost the same number of (real) sports that New Zealand is amongst the top couple of nations in the world - my point is New Zealand certainly doesn't epically fail at [i]every[/i] sport. We do however, like every other country, have sports that we struggle at (like the illustrious sport of bobsledding). [/QUOTE]

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