blogging it real

OK, well to be honest I'm actually doing this for me, so as I know who to follow, who our medal hopes are with and when they are competing. Reason being it's notoriously hard to keep track of these kinds of things come olympic time and also I'm out of the country so won't be able to see much, if any of our athletes nor have any warning of when they will be on.

So, check the fantastic New Zealand Olympic site out for all the details or read below to get the basics.

ATHLETES (by my count 149 are in Athens + an astonishing 126 officials, trainers, managers, helper-outers... who I shall not name)
ARCHERY (1)
Ken UPRICHARD

ATHLETICS (13)
Valerie ADAMS, Michael AISH, Craig BARRETT, Stuart FARQUHAR, Beatrice FAUMUINA, Melina HAMILTON, John HENWOOD, Liza HUNTER-GALVAN, Kimberley SMITH, Jason STEWART, Dale WARRANDER, Nick WILLIS and Jonathan WYATT

BADMINTON - Mixed Doubles (2)
Sara RUNESTEN PETERSEN and Daniel SHIRLEY

BASKETBALL - Both Mens and Womens Teams reprazent'n
Men: Ed BOOK, Dillon BOUCHER, Craig BRADSHAW, Pero CAMERON, Mark DICKEL, Paul HENARE, Phillip JONES, Sean MARKS, Aaron OLSON, Kirk PENNEY, Tony RAMPTON and Paul WINITANA

Women: Megan COMPAIN, Rebecca COTTON, Gina FARMER, Sally FARMER, Aneka KERR, Donna LOFFHAGEN, Angela MARINO, Julie OFSOSKI, Jody TINI, Tania TUPU, Leanne WALKER and Kim WIELENS

BOXING (1)
Soulan POWNCEBY (heard of him I'm sure)

CANOE/KAYAK - Flatwater (2)
Steven FERGUSON (son of Ian) and Ben FOUHY

CYCLING (total: 17)
MTB (2)
Kashi LEUCHS and Robyn WONG

Road (6)
Heath BLACKGROVE, Melissa HOLT, Michelle HYLAND, Joanne KIESANOWSKI, Robin REID and Jeremy YATES

Track (9)
Hayden GODFREY, Timothy GUDSELL, Greg HENDERSON, Peter LATHAM, Anthony PEDEN, Matthew RANDALL, Hayden ROULSTON, Marc RYAN and Sarah ULMER

EQUESTRIAN (total: 10)
Dressage (never seems to have been our strong suit in Equestrian) (1)
Louisa HILL

Eventing (5)
Matthew GRAYLING, Daniel JOCELYN, Andrew NICHOLSON, Blyth TAIT and Heelan TOMPKINS

Jumping (4)
Grant CASHMORE, Bruce GOODIN, Daniel MEECH and Guy THOMAS

FENCING (if this was real fencing, like the stuff used to keep animals contained we would be guaranteed of sweeping the field) (1)
Jessica BEER (don't mind if I do, Lion Red thanks)

HOCKEY (Mens and Women's teams frontin' once again)
Men: Ryan ARCHIBALD, Gareth BROOKS, Phillip BURROWS, Dean COUZINS, Dion GOSLING, Bevan HARI, Blair HOPPING, Wayne MCINDOE, James NATION, Umesh PARAG, Mitesh PATEL, Kyle PONTIFEX, Hayden SHAW, Darren SMITH, Simon TOWNS and Paul WOOLFORD

Women: Stacey CARR, Helen CLARKE, Tara DRYSDALE, Lizzy IGASAN, Leisen JOBE, Beth JURGELEIT, Suzie MUIRHEAD, Emily NAYLOR, Meredith ORR, Jaimee PROVAN, Niniwa ROBERTS-LANG, Rachel ROBERTSON, Kayla SHARLAND, Rachel SUTHERLAND, Lisa WALTON and Diana WEAVERS

JUDO (1)
Rochelle STORMONT

ROWING (11)
George BRIDGEWATER, Nicola COLES, Mahe DRYSDALE, Caroline EVERS-SWINDELL, Georgina EVERS-SWINDELL, Juliette HAIGH, Donald LEACH, Carl MEYER, Eric MURRAY, Nathan TWADDLE and Sonia WADDELL

SAILING (12)
Thomas ASHLEY, Dean BARKER, Andrew BROWN, Linda DICKSON, Sharon FERRIS, Shelley HESSON, Jamie HUNT, Kylie JAMESON, Barbara KENDALL, Sarah MACKY, Hamish PEPPER and Joanna WHITE

SHOOTING (2)
Nadine STANTON and Ryan TAYLOR

SWIMMING (13)
Nathalie BERNARD, Moss BURMESTER, Annabelle CAREY, Elizabeth COSTER, Alison FITCH, Cameron GIBSON, Dean KENT, Ben LABOWITCH, Rebecca LINTON, Hannah MCLEAN, Helen NORFOLK, Corney SWANEPOEL and Scott TALBOT-CAMERON

TABLE TENNIS - Women's Doubles (2)
Li CHUNLI and Karen LI

TAEKWONDO (1)
Verina WIHONGI

TRIATHLON (4)
Hamish CARTER, Bevan DOCHERTY, Nathan RICHMOND and Samantha WARRINER