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.OPINION: The MIQ system leaves individual athletes in a mentally stressful limbo, and sport could suffer if it goes on.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are coming to a close after 17 days of sporting excellence from the world's elite sportspeople. We take a look back at some key moments for New Zealand atheltes.

It wasnt a copout! I was getting so lost in the air: Simone Biles explains her reason for pulling out of five Olympic events and says bronze on beam means more than all four golds - as she reveals medal win came two days after her aunt unexpectedly died The 24-year-old won bronze in the balance beam final in Tokyo on Tuesday Biles appearance in the event marked her first return to competition since she made the controversial decision to pull out of the team final, as well as the all-around, une...

New Zealand Olympic Committee chief executive Kereyn Smith was pleased with the decision to have the wool-fibre masks and said the safety of the team was of "utmost importance”. “Lanaco is a fantastic New Zealand company creating world-leading technology, which is helping to keep our team safe,” Smith said. Lanaco provided 70,000 reusable, bio-degradable and disposable face masks for the team. It worked with the New Zealand Olympic Committee and medical staff to develop the mask. C...

Misha Koudinov Photo: PHOTOSPORT Misha Koudinov will compete in the mens artistic competition while Dylan Schmidt will compete in the mens trampoline. Koudinov and Schmidt are the first New Zealand gymnasts to be selected to two Olympics both having competed at Rio in 2016. Koudinov has competed at four Commonwealth Games and was the first New Zealander to make a gymnastics World Cup final. His specialty apparatus are the parallel bars and the high bar where he is currently ranked 9th and 19th...

Selection for the Tokyo Olympics hasnt come easily for trampolinist Dylan Schmidt Selection for the Tokyo Olympics hasnt come easily for trampolinist Dylan Schmidt 2 July 2021 The 24-year-old is going to his second Games alongside mens artistic gymnast Misha Koudinov . Rounding out the team is 22-year-old trampolinist Maddie Davidson, who will be New Zealands first female to compete in the event at an Olympic Games. Schmidt went under the knife in 2018 after suffering a knee injury, and hes...

“It was something we were really pushing for and hoping it would happen. And it did. “My selection to the New Zealand team means everything.” She had been training more than 22 hours a week in preparation for the Games, working alongside a sports psychologist to get her mentally prepared. She said her biggest challenge was “nerves”. “It’s the biggest competition I’ve ever been to, so trying to keep that under control and make sure I’m concentrated on what I’m doing... bu...

Blues and All Blacks winger Caleb Clarke has narrowly missed the cut for the New Zealand Sevens team for Tokyo Blues and All Blacks winger Caleb Clarke has narrowly missed the cut for the New Zealand Sevens team for Tokyo 2 July 2021 Clarkes been named as a travelling reserve, and coach Clark Laidlaw says a mixture of time spent in 15s along with the impact of Covid cancellations of the Sevens circuit has just left him a little short. Over half of the womens team were part of the silver med...