Golden lessons from our elite athletes

Golden lessons from our elite athletes
Gold medalist, Lydia Ko of Team New Zealand. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
The collective buzz of watching our athletes win medals at the Paris Olympics at a rate that placed New Zealand 11th in the medal rankings may be starting to wear off.So let me remind you: NZ ended up with its most successful result – 10 gold medals, seven silver medals and three bronze medals, ranking us just behind Germany and ahead of Canada. It was an incredible result.WinnersAs the NZ Association of Scientists co-president Dr Troy Baisden put it in a LinkedIn post: “If the US won gold medals at the same rate per population...

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