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Olympique Daily: Oh dear, Canada

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Jul 25, 2024
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Live look-in from tonight’s Football Ferns team meeting. Getty Images

A newsletter that is definitely Olympic, but not really “daily”

Congrats if you had the Football Ferns being spied upon on your “Olympic Controversy” bingo card. 

The story keeps rumbling along, due in part to time zones, due in another part to a whole bunch of reporters hankering for something newsy and chewy as the Olympics continues its soft launch.

That it’s Canada, a notorious global and geopolitical ‘bad actor’, performing these deeds most foul just adds to the frisson.

“Canada Nice”, ha, you can’t pull the Gore-Tex over our eyes any longer. First Shania Twain stole the best bits of the South Island from under our noses, now this.

The entire brouhaha is bonkers or, as the NZOC would put it, deeply bonkers. 

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