Recreation & Sport

With the 2010 FIS Snowboard and Freestyle Junior World Champs over, elite junior winter sports athletes from around the world are packing their bags – but many will leave with high hopes of returning.

A bumper 2008 ski season - with plenty of snow and international tourists boosting visitor numbers to record levels – has New Zealand’s ski tourism industry in a positive frame for the 2009 winter season.

Kiwi marathon adventurer Malcolm Law – who last year became the first person in the world to run the equivalent of seven marathons in seven consecutive days – is mounting an even grittier challenge for 2010.

A world-first attempt to run New Zealand’s seven internationally renowned ‘Great Walks’ in seven consecutive days will provide an epic fundraising mission.

The largest aviation sports event ever held in the Southern Hemisphere will take place in the skies over Wanaka in December.

An Air New Zealand pilot has taken the kiwi ‘can-do’ reputation to extremes by spending four hours dangling 20 metres above a busy London street.

Kiwi rugby legend Dan Carter has become the leading points-scorer in test rugby having broken the world record during the All Blacks’ game against Wales in Cardiff.

Well known actor and rugby fan Clint Eastwood is looking for actors to play the parts of New Zealand's All Blacks in a film of the 1995 World Cup.

What happens when some of New Zealand’s best-known celebrities go door knocking and get invited in for tea?

The All Whites are coming home as national heroes, after the plucky New Zealand side overcame impossible odds to emerge as the toast of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.