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Euphoria tinged with 'post-Games blues' as athletes touch down
14 Aug 2024New Zealand Olympians have returned triumphant after the team's most successful Games campaign ever.
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Should NZ Olympians get paid for medals?
14 Aug 2024Around the world, successful athletes are awarded cash bonuses for their performance - from nil to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What do Kiwis get?
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Olympic runner finishes marathon despite broken leg
14 Aug 2024A British runner completed the gruelling event in Paris in under three hours despite the serious injury.
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Welcome home! Kiwi Olympians return
14 Aug 2024In pictures: After winning 20 medals at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, New Zealand's athletes are back on home soil.
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2.8 million Kiwis tune in to watch Paris Olympic Games
14 Aug 2024The most-watched sports overall were athletics, rowing, swimming, canoe sprinting, artistic gymnastics and golf, Sky says.
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Grief, recriminations, then gold: How the wheel has turned for Cycling NZ
14 Aug 2024The women of New Zealand's track cycling team trumped all other Kiwi competitors for medals at the Paris Olympics. They came from a dark place to get there.
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Sleepless in Scotland: Lydia Ko waiting for golden reality to sink in
14 Aug 2024Real or a dream? Lydia Ko says her Olympic gold medal-winning fairy-tale performance in Paris has not sunk in yet.
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NZ's Paris Games athletics efforts, rated - by a 102yo coaching legend
13 Aug 2024Arch Jelley turned 102 today, and coached John Walker, among others. These are his Olympics reckons. Audio
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Post-Olympic Blues is a thing for athletes
14 Aug 2024Miss watching your favourite sport? Spare a thought for the competitors.
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How did Raygun qualify for the Olympics?
13 Aug 2024The story behind viral sensation and breakdancing lecturer Rachael "Raygun" Gunn's path to the Games.
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Britain's Tom Daley announces retirement after Paris silver
13 Aug 2024Tom Daley announced the news as he returned from the Paris Games where he won silver in the men's synchronised 10-metre event together with Noah Williams.
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Olympics 2024: Is it possible the internet made something better?
12 Aug 2024They might not all have won medals, but these athletes definitely won the internet.
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The sports that belong in the Olympics, and those that don't
12 Aug 2024Analysis - In the spirit of cutting the fat and trying not to waste your time, we answer the big quadrennial question.
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In pictures: A dazzling Games closing ceremony
12 Aug 2024Paris has passed the baton to Los Angeles as New Zealand athletes return home with a spectacular medal haul.
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The Kiwi moments that made these Olympics special
12 Aug 2024Analysis - As the Olympic flame floats back to earth, RNZ looks at some lasting impressions New Zealand's athletes made.
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NZ smashes Olympic medal haul record
12 Aug 2024Kiwis bagged 10 golds and 20 medals - easily breaking the previous best from 1984. Here's how the numbers break down and where Aotearoa ranked. Audio
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'Sensational' Paris Olympics come to an end
12 Aug 2024Stars of sport, screen and music came together at the Paris 2024 closing ceremony to bring the 33rd Olympic Games to an end.
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Ellesse Andrews bags second gold on last day of games
12 Aug 2024She's stronger in other disciplines, and it was a "real surprise" to end up in the medal race. Then she powered home to a win.
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A 'spectacular backdrop', sore feet and 'mum power' all in a day's work
12 Aug 2024It was a masterstroke to hold the Olympics in the centre of the City of Light, a journalist who has attended multiple editions says.
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As it happened: Tom Cruise abseils into stadium at spectacular Olympic closing
12 Aug 2024The movie star brought a heavy dose of Hollywood as the French capital handed over to next host Los Angeles.
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Marathon great quits race after fading at 20km mark
12 Aug 2024Regarded as the greatest marathon runner of all time, Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge failed to finish the Paris Olympics course, dashing his hopes of a historic third straight gold.
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Ally Wollaston wins bronze to bring curtain down on Paris Olympics
12 Aug 2024Going into the final race of the Games, the cyclist was sitting in eighth - but a herculean effort saw her climb onto the podium.
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Paris Games reboots Olympic brand, raising bar for LA
12 Aug 2024Just a few weeks ago, the chances of a successful Games in the City of Light seemed slim. But against all odds, the Olympics delivered.
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Horses axed from Olympic event after outcry
12 Aug 2024Equines will be replaced with obstacle courses in upcoming Games - but the change isn't to everyone's liking.
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