New Zealand Olympic reserve Clark Ellice has produced a big win this morning (NZ time) at the Liverpool 5150 Triathlon.

We may claim to be a nation of dog lovers but 80% of Kiwi dogs aged over three have gum disease according to research*.

Online entries for the ASICS Kepler Challenge 2012 mountain race and its sister event, the Luxmore Grunt will be accepted from 6.30am, Saturday 7 July via the website: www.keplerchallenge.co.nz

While the focus is firmly on this month’s London Olympics, a group of young New Zealand swimmers take on the might of Australia this week to begin the footsteps towards Rio 2016 and beyond.

With less than two months until the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) is thrilled to announce the selection of the final group of athletes to represent New Zealand in the sports of athletics, sailing and swimming.  This adds to the selections made in the sports of cycling, equestrian, rowing and shooting.   A total of 26 athletes will represent New Zealand at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Christchurch mountain biker Anton Cooper continued on his winning way in the UCI World Cup in USA today.

The annual Contact Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge, NZ’s largest cycling event, takes place on Saturday 24 November. The organisers are excited to introduce a new mountain bike category and tracks for this year’s participants to enjoy. Construction is underway to rebuild 40 and 85km mountain bike tracks through the idyllic Wairakei Forest.

Spectacular illuminated shapes of flowers, spheres and cones featuring designs by the artistically renowned Peranakan culture of South East Asia will light up this year’s Powerco Taranaki Garden Spectacular running from October 26 to November 4.

A top Auckland ophthalmologist is joining forces with Macular Degeneration New Zealand to raise awareness of one of the leading causes of blindness in this country.

Dates and venues for the ever popular Contact Tri Series were released today, with the highlight being a new (warmer) date and joint venture event in Rotorua, the return of Oceania titles at the Wellington Standard Distance Nationals and the introduction of Teams racing at the National Sprint Championships in Kinloch.

Dealing with the constant changes of a glacier is all in a day’s work for tourism company Franz Josef Glacier Guides.

Mumford & Sons are coming to New Zealand for the first time ever to wow audiences this November.

 

New Zealand’s most iconic fashion design awards competition has received a record amount of entries for the 2012 event to be held in Gore next month.

Feed your skin and banish dryness with nourishing products from geoskincare this winter and we’ll give $1 from every product sold to The Salvation Army food bank.

 Former world champion Greg Henderson, competing in his fifth Olympic Games, will head a three-strong road cycling team for London, it was announced today.

 New Zealand’s London bound triathletes raced brilliantly in Austria at the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series.

 New Zealand mountain biker Samara Sheppard rode the perfect race to win the UCI under-23 crosscountry world cup in Canada today.

 New Zealand was again on the podium in long-course racing, Callum Millward taking 3rd place at Ironman 70.3 Syracuse (New York) on Sunday.

 Mark Webber?'s adventure race, the Swisse Mark Webber Tasmania Challenge, will offer prize money for the first time in 2012, adding an additional lure for the world?'s best to come to Tasmania for the five-day enduro.

 Two members of the New Zealand junior track endurance cycling team stepped onto the podium in the searing heat of Wisconsin, USA this morning (NZ Time), in the first of a five race haul in the Badger State.

 New Zealand mountain bikers celebrated their most successful UCI World Cup at Mont Sainte Anne in Canada this weekend.

 Wanaka’s Tony Dodds proved the best of the Kiwis in Austria this morning (NZ time), finishing 10^th at the Kitzbuhel round of the ITU World Triathlon Series. 

Mr Gay World Andreas Derleth will be ‘star of the show’ when he attends DNA Gay Ski Week Queenstown, the much-anticipated gay and lesbian event of the year.

All but two of New Zealand’s London bound triathletes will race in Austria this weekend, using the latest round of the ITU World Triathlon Series as a ‘tune up’ for the London Olympic Games.

New Zealand’s Olympic swim team will miss out on some race practice after a planned meet in Canberra was cancelled following a health scare.