Doing lots of tweeting and facebooking for Eventing NZ as we get ready for the Olympics. Not long to go now, and am so excited I could burst. Well maybe not quite burst, but am really looking forward to it.
Have submitted a letter to the Editor (Christchurch Press) on the woeful female representation in the NZ Media team. Doubt it will get printed, so I have given you the full (unedited) version in the previous blog. I edited it down to 180 words, still not quite at the recommended 150.... Will they print it? I doubt it but what the hell, its a first for me, actually sending a letter to the Editor.
The photo below was from the Athens Olympics when I was one of the female accredited media at the Games, specialising in the equestrian events. We (New Zealand) had teams in both the Eventing and the Showjumping, as well as one dressage rider so it was full on for the entire two weeks of the Games. The Equestrian venue was also miles away from the other Olympic events. No such specialist role was available this year (not that I would have been in line to go). Greenwich was considered close enough for the mainstream journalists to cover as well as the other events, and this Games we have no showjumpers.
The photo features Tony Smith and Keven Norquay with Dave Leggat standing. Both Dave and Tony are in London, lucky buggers, but good on them, they do both write well (as does "Norqs" but he's too important as Content Manager for Fairfax to go to the Games now!)
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