Posted August 5, 20195 yr Welcome to the World Cup of Sportspeople! With the Women's Football World Cup in full swing just finished and the Men's World Cup being a resounding success last year, we'll be following on with a tournament, not of countries, but of the sports-men and women themselves. This contest is designed to select the greatest sportspeople from each continent through a number of rounds, selecting the best of the best, and pitting them together to show who we really think is the best sportsperson of them all! This is the Nominations stage for Oceania. To make it easy for you all (and so you don't have to read a really long paragraph), here are the rules: - You can nominate any sportsperson, active, retired or dead, provided that their most recent appearance nationally was from a country in Oceania (regardless of where they were born). If they have never competed on a national level, their nationality will simply be that which associate themselves with. - The countries which count as Oceaniaa here will be the same as the countries which take part in the Oceanian qualifiers for the Football World Cup. The full list is shown in the second post, however notably Australia does not count as Oceania here as it was included in the Asia rounds. - NEW: As only 5 people will advance from this group, you can only nominate a MAXIMUM of 10 sportspeople. Every nominated sportsperson will advance through to the next round, however the sportsperson with the most nominations will advance directly through to the Finals without being entered into the continental qualifiers. Nominations close on Sunday 11th August at 23:59 (but if you're a little bit late I'll probably still count them). Get nominating!
August 5, 20195 yr Author Eligible Countries American Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
August 5, 20195 yr Valerie Adams (New Zealand)- Athletics Trent Boult (New Zealand)- Cricket Dan Carter (New Zealand)- Rugby Stephen Fleming (New Zealand)- Cricket Richard Hadlee (New Zealand)- Cricket Denny Hulme (New Zealand)- Motor Racing Jonah Lomu (New Zealand)- Rugby Richie McCaw (New Zealand)- Rugby Tim Southee (New Zealand)- Cricket Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)- Cricket
August 5, 20195 yr From New Zealand: Richard Hadlee - Cricket Stephen Fleming - Cricket Martin Crowe - Cricket Brendon McCullum - Cricket Glenn Turner - Cricket Kane Williamson - Cricket John Walker - Athletics Valerie Adams - Athletics Mark Todd - Equestrian (eventing) From Fiji: Vijay Singh - Golf
August 5, 20195 yr Author Nico Porteous (New Zealand - Skiing) Valerie Adams (New Zealand - Athletics) Lisa Carrington (New Zealand - Rowing) Ian Ferguson (New Zealand - Canoeing) Leone Nakarawa (Fiji - Rugby) Akapusi Quera (Fiji - Rugby) Jack Bauer (New Zealand - Cycling) Ele Opeloge (Samoa - Weightlifting) Paea Wolfgramm (Tonga - Boxing) Kieran Reed (New Zealand - Rugby)
August 8, 20195 yr Scott Dixon (New Zealand) Motor Racing Chris Amon (New Zealand) Motor Racing Denny Hulme (New Zealand)- Motor Racing Jonah Lomu (New Zealand)- Rugby Bruce McLaren (New Zealand) Motor Racing Winston Reid (NZ) Football
August 11, 20195 yr Athletics Valerie Adams Rugby Richie McCaw Daniel Carter Jonah Lomu Ali Williams BMX Sarah Walker Golf Vijay Singh Lydia Ko Cricket Daniel Vettori Martin Crowe
August 12, 20195 yr Author The sportsperson advancing directly through to the Final will be... VALERIE ADAMS
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