Andrew Alderson: Newstalk ZB Sports Reporter on the Tour of Flanders cycle event, Charlisse Leger-Walker, Wellington Phoenix Women

Andrew Alderson joined Ryan Bridge to discuss the sporting news from the Easter weekend.  

On the agenda was the railway-crossing incident at the Tour of Flanders, Charlisse Leger-Walker becoming the first Kiwi woman to win an NCAA basketball title in the US, and the performance of the Wellington Phoenix Women. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andrews in a Sport Morning Andrew greetings, right, hey, what
it's going on? These cyclists, twenty of them, they could
actually get in quite serious trouble with the authorities in Belgium.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, a Tour of Flanders which is won by today
k pagatri Orse to France multiple champion, probably going to
go have another crack this year. But it's the small
dilemma that during the race, the what do you call
the warning signs came down on a railway line and
a train coming through, and some cyclists snuck through because

(00:32):
the competitive and thinks the juices are flowing. So yeah,
there's gonna be some questions asked apparently about this story
from es Day, but it's going to be ongoing. So
some continuing across the railway line. They were told to
slow down after the submit to sort of let the
peloton catch up to some degree. But I was just intrigued.
I thought, if you're in that scenario, money on the line.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
There's a red light, do you risk getting club at it?
You know whatever?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
The train's going at two fifty k now or something
of it's a fast service.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
I don't know. I think it's can Zen in Japan.
Fancy that, I don't know. You're on the road, you've
got to obey the road rules.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah, I would have that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
So they could fund themselves in a bit of trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah yeah, Lawrence pethiddenws Yonder, he's not in trouble apparently,
So that's some constellation from that.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
And finished strongly took Hey, what about the first Kiwi
woman to win an NCAA basketball title in the state.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Charlie's leader Walker. This is a tremendous achievement, pioneering. And
speaking of pioneering, I mean Megan Campaign, who is the
only New Zealand woman as far as I'm where to
play in the WNBA the draft on April thirteen, and
Charlie's sad to Walker could follow suit. Of course, she
played originally for Washington State and then moved over to UCLA,

(01:48):
so she's been in the system for some time, American
college system, but has really done an outstanding job there
as part of that team. And good luck to I mean,
I think that's just that's an amazing I love seeing pioneering,
pioneering events from New Zealanders overseas, and she's been part
of one very.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Cool indeed, Hey, what about the Phoenix.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, which one? I mean the women going through to
the missing the they're going to miss the semi fire
straight through, I should say, to the semi finals to
play the extra game. It's a fine achievement from BEF
priestsman and that team. But of redeemption for her, but
also the men now coming into the reckoning. They're in seventh,
what three wins from three and now after she and

(02:30):
Carlo Taliana moved on as as a coach, but now
they've moved into the reckoning for you know, may be
getting to the playoffs with those three games ago and
still a lot to go. But in that regard, Ryan,
but yeah, at least they'll have some opportunity there were
haven't and then their own hands.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
We haven't even talked about the Warriors yet, who just
miss We're becoming unstuck. It's happening, Andrew.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
This is a classic Warriors season, is it? It doesn't
sound like Andrew Weiss was that that thrill how they went.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So understandably unsurprisingly Andrew was sport. Thanks Andrew for more
from early edition with Ryan Bridge.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
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