D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on the NZ Winter Games folding in the face of rising costs

Confidence snow sports will continue to thrive in New Zealand, despite the Winter Games being put on ice due to an avalanche of rising costs.

CEO of Snow Sports NZ, Nic Cavanagh, admits losing the Games after 15 years is a big blow, but he's confident top athletes will still visit during the winter months. 

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dusty autograph. Hey I'm tired. I'm Dusty because I started
watching football went on for one hundred minutes. But it
was magnificent. It was a great game of football. This
is Aukland f C versus Adelaide.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I had one eye on the football and the other
eye on youick center making an absolute meal. Yes of demon,
I feel sorry from he got but back and forth,
back and forth. It was stunning. The last nine minutes
was freak show.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah true, and look at us. We went all the
way to the very end of Rogerson. You know, logan
another way, say you win the ju last for Auckland
f C.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
A wear the shirt tomorrow you will.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Friday team shirt Phoenix. Here's the thing. Just watching that
game closely and trying not to shout because everybody was asleep.
I just saw just how good our midfield and our
defense is and that's our real strength. And it was
really good football. To go the FCYE take.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
That and now it's one pointed drift of top of
the table. It was Adelaide against I was being described
Adelaide by Jason pine Ow football hero as being a
Tad Ferrell. Yeah, okay, but the look Coriker's face. Coricker's
explosion of emotion at the end of that game was

(01:15):
quite something else like that.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
The other guy, the Adelaide guy, also, I mean the
game had everything in the crowd went off, fifteen thousand
people at h'm mass great little stadium. We need one
of those anyway. So then I went on to watching
the Siner game, and Ciner was just another level completely.
But the other big thing about the open, and we're
going to talk about this later in the program, was
Ben Shelton, the guy who was number one seed in Auckland.

(01:37):
Has been having a go at courtside interviewers.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, and so he should. This is interesting. People would
look at me and say, you're a sports broadcaster. You
don't shut up your eyes injecting your own opinion and attitude,
and da da dah. Yeah, that's my job. These guys
in the middle of the court, they've got one job.
Get some words out of the player. That's it. No
one cares about your opinion. I couldn't care less about

(02:01):
what you're thinking. You're funny little in jokes. No one cares.
Just ask the question, but don't say how does it feel?
Because it's even more frustrating, but I get it, and
I don't mind Shelton coming out Djokovic. I think it
just let that one go, but it did. I suppose
give him the boost going into that game, which he won.

(02:23):
But it's not your role to do that. You're not
an interviewer. You're not. We don't care about your attitude
or opinion. Don't pay for that. We want to hear
from the athletes.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
They're also trying to be funny and we don't need
the entertainment from these guys. And there's a different one
every time. And I don't know what that's about either,
but apparently it's both Channel nine and Aussie Open decided
and they haven't got a deal between them and as
I said all along, just put Jim Coreer in front
of them.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
But he's got a bit at money, hasn't he. I mean,
does he indulge in a bit of small talk though,
and a bit of you know, maybe maybe with him
he can because he's you know, how many times do
you want to grand slam?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Quite a few times and the players are in awe
of him, which is good, not of the interviewers, no, but.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Good on the American for saying something and maybe lessons
we learned, Absolutely we're learnings will be lessened now the.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Winters and Games are no more in Wonica. I've been
to one of these. They are just the most amazing event.
But it's going to be sad not to see the
world's best competing against the world's best, because remember, we've
got the world's best in Wonica, Yes we do.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
They come from it, know the Sanowski Senate. He's actually
running again at Aspen at the X Games over the weekend.
That's after she did something quite extraordinary a couple of
weeks ago. She landed a twelve to sixty switch backside
that's three and a half times goofy footed like the
opposite foot going backwards. She did that with the nine hundred,

(03:44):
the first female athlete to do that in qualifying thing.
It was four or five years ago. But look how
you know what pathways aren't there because it's no longer
affordable to run the sanctioning fees and the prize money
for the FIS major events, freeride world I just can't
afford to do it. So but a lot of these
major athletes, they still come down here in the off season.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
And train and train and they want some competition. And
I'm sure there's some rich people who's ski and I'm
sure if they'd actually talked about this earlier, maybe we
could have helped them. Can I just say one thing
about the twelve sixty? She nailed it and she came second,
but she was the world's first. And if she nailed it,
I don't get that.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
You get an interviewer and then to ask her that question,
but add a bit of his own opinion. See how
that works. Looking forward to that this weekend, and hopefully
we'll be talking to her on the Your Sport Breakfast
on Saturday morning, kind of just before she starts the
second event. We'll see bring this cross for that one.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I'll ave forward to it.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
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