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• Published date: 24 June 2022
• Publication title: Hawkes Bay Today

Anniversary stoush Football: New Zealand Football is disputing claims it ignored the 40th anniversary of the All Whites famously reaching the 1982 Fifa World Cup finals. The team completed a week of celebrations in Auckland, and claimed no one from the governing body attended any of the events, or even acknowledged the occasion. But NZ Football insisted representatives attended a lunch last week

Nyika aims for goldBoxing: New Zealand boxer David Nyika s confident his golden run will continue at the Commonwealth Games. The 26-year-old headlines the eight-strong Kiwi team named to compete in Birmingham and Nyika — the two-time champion from the Glasgow and Gold Coast Games — says a threepeat is his destiny. “The Commonwealth Games are where I first made my mark, fighting as an 18-year-old in Glasgow. I always enjoy them, it’s got a really nice feel and there’s always some quality...