Shout out to the Kiwi Swimmers via their web form

Shout out to the Kiwi Swimmers via their web form




The swimmers from New Zealand are accepting messages via a form on the web site of New Zealand Swimming. http://tinyurl.com/6dpyhs

I sent a message to the team to swim fast.

The New Zealand swimmers are well coached, but the team isn’t able to pull from a population base as large as Australia. The most famous sports team from New Zealand, its rugby squad, is called the ‘All Blacks.’ So basketball team is the “Tall Blacks” and the swimmers are fondly called the “Wet Blacks.”

The color black isn’t in the nation’s flag. And, the flag is much like that of others.

We visited New Zealand and stayed in Christchurch — a town much like BJ in that there are plenty of excellent opportunities for transportation by bicycle. Other parts of New Zealand are not as suited for bikes. The number of people are not similar, of course.