Lisa Carrington

It's going very well in my view.

We as New Zealanders, we're multiple Rugby World Cup winners, we're good at cricket, we're good at rugby league, our netballers are flying and we love our Lisa Carrington's and Hamish Kerr, we love our gold medalists and all that sort of thing and that's part of your portfolio as well.

However, what resonated with me and I think with the listeners is you are really focused on that, building that base so the mountain can be built.

Would that be a fair summation of how you view things of sporting landscape in New Zealand?

That's a good one, actually.

And Dame Lisa Carrington, most important New Zealand sports person.

Someone says, you were more thinking team, weren't you?

Yeah, if you take them out, how does that team perform? Actually, a fan of the show, Cousin GH from the Russell Bowling Club, he's actually text through Shannon McElroy, one of our very good lawn bowlers.

And there's a dog.

Interestingly, the goat in the boat, Dame Lisa Carrington, also has a dog called Colin, but that's a cavoodle.

Okay, different kind of thing.

I think that in, like, working dogs in the country, they will often, not always, but usually have a one-syllable name because it's for function.

But Bill used to – he trained a lot of Olympians who were in the velodrome for New Zealand.

He trained Lisa Carrington as well who's a multiple-time gold medalist in kayaking, the K1 kayaking I think it's called in New Zealand.

So he knows his science and he's a lot of power athletes.

So he's got me doing like airdyne sprints for 6, 8, 10 seconds, stuff like that, getting the wattage up as much as I can.

You might have an individual athlete break out.

Lisa Carrington in New Zealand's a really good example.

She's the GOAT of our Olympics.

Uh, you know, I can't even count how many gold medals she's won.

Yep.

Uh, number three, can't go past some of our mana wāhine from Aotearoa, the likes of a Tame Lisa Carrington, uh, Tame Valerie Adams-

Yeah

... and of course, Tame Whina Cooper as well.

Yep, yep.

Um, Lisa Carrington's kid's gender-

Mm.

Yeah, yeah

Congratulations-

Yeah

... on your Just the Tips winner on picking the, uh, sex of Lisa Carrington's baby.

Yeah, I must...