Yes the big day for the opening of the Beijing Olympics has arrived. And it's STOP THE PRESSES time here at the Rodney Libraries Blog as several more athletes with Rodney connections have come to light. We knew there were more out there and here they are:
Shaun Van Rooyen from Stanmore Bay is another member of the soccer Oly-Whites team.
Kristy Hill has family in Helensville and plays for the Football Ferns, the NZ women's soccer team.
Mark Herring from Kumeu is swimming for NZ at his first Olympics. His specialty is the freestyle sprint events.
Claiming world champion BMXer Sarah Walker may be a little bit of a push as she comes from Albany - but the more the merrier we say. After all parts of Albany are in Rodney.
So three of our Rodney athletes have already been in action. And thats before the Opening Ceremony. A big thumbs up to our footballers with some gritty performances in their first round matches. The footballers are in action again over the weekend, as is swimmer Mark Herring. Here is the schedule:
Saturday 9th August
The Football Ferns play Norway at 11.45 pm
Sunday 10th August
Oly-whites play Brazil in their second pool round at 9pm
It's a bit hard to work out but the 4x100m freestyle relay event featuring the NZ team appears to be swimming their heats on Sunday the 10th at 1.11 am (but then they could mean the wee small hours of Monday morning our time). The finals are on Monday afternoon at 3.23 pm.
Messages are coming in for the team and some libraries have already been busy posting these off to the team and individual athletes for you. More news next week including athlete profiles and pictures of displays in the various libraries around the district.
Go hard team!! And have a good weekend everyone.
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