Last night, it was the 19th of September, 2012 (A month has passed since the London Olympics ended), at The Cloud in Auckland when Valerie Adams had recieved the gold medal in the women's Olympic Shot Put (Which I already mentioned that Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus, DQ'ed for a drug testing failure from last month before other athletes apart from Adams got the Silver & Bronze awarded by a Russian athlete, Evgenia Kolodko & another competitor from China, Lijao Gong, respectively) from His Excellency, the Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae before the national anthem is being played. And those attended the gold medal ceremony are fellow Olympic gold medalists Mahe Drysdale (Men's single sculls rowing), the dynamic duo of Bond & Murray (Men's rowing pair), Lisa Carrington (Women's K-1 200 metres kayak), Team Jolly (the women's 470 class sailing duo of Jo Aleh & Olivia Powrie), Joseph Sullivan (One half of the Men's double sculls rowing with Nathan Cohen) & other fellow olympic medalists like Sarah Walker who got silver in the women's BMX cycling.
Then rewind to the All Blacks - Springboks encounter at Forsyth Barr Stadium (Which is offically opened for business last year, but it is the 1st time that the AB's have played at a new venue which is a year & a month old now), so let's see how the match was analyzed:
17th minute: Morne Steyn puts the Sprongboks a 3 - 0 lead.
Nek minute (5 - 3): Israel Dagg scores!!! But Aaron Cruden not able to add the something extras (And New Zealand have now scored an 103rd straight try in the match).
40th minute (1st half): Half time is signalled when Morne Steyn misses the penalty after being awarded the penalty when an touch judge did see an infringement by Tony Woodcock at the lineout.
40th minute (2nd half): And 2nd half is about to start.
47th minute (5 - 8): And Bryan Habana crosses the corner for an outstanding try (His 43rd of his career) with explosive speed & skill efforts but the woes continue for Morne Steyn as the conversion attempts slips wide off the posts.
51st minute (8 - 8): Cruden has no problem from the kicking tee to level the scores.
59th minute (13 - 8): Replacement scrum-half Aaron Smith spots a gap and gets past through the defence to touch down for a try.
Nek Minute (15 - 8): And finally, Cruden adds the something extras to give the AB's some more breathing room.
63rd Minute: Uh-oh! Touch Judge has saw something when the Springboks replacement prop Dean Greyling has been yellow carded for 10 minutes after delivering a cheap shot to the victim, AB's captain Richie McCaw with a forearm to the opponent's face according to the replay (And I wonder that Greyling should be New Zealand's public enemy No.2 behind numero uno: Wallaby fly-half Quade Cooper) but Aaron Cruden's penalty attempt went wide as New Zealand still lead 15 to 8.
69th Minute (15 - 11): Johan Goosen did have a great penalty by bringing South Africa back in range after a long-range effort also falls short of the posts.
74th Minute (18 - 11): Cruden critical edges NZ nearer victory with just his 2nd victory
80th Minute (21 - 11): Aaron Cruden sets the seal on the AB's victory (Although the AB's have seriously denied South Africa a bonus point) with another penalty after having one last go at the posts when they awarded another penalty as the hooter sounds after the All Blacks power forward when Cruden's penalty kick hits the upright & bounces back into play after Springbok Andries Bekker was penalised for not releasing at the breakdown but the AB's won't take the game deep into the Boks' half.
And finally, the Pumas of Argentina almost won as they were leading 19 - 6 after a Juan Martin Hernandez penalty goal, the Wallabies, were 13 points down, are starting to make a comeback trail thanks to 2 tries scored by Pat McCabe & Digby Ioane and Berrick Barnes taking both conversions to lead 20 - 19 before they awarded a penalty with who will decide to change the goal kicker after Berrick Barnes came off the field in the 70th, whether it's Cooper or Kurtley Beale? And Kurtley Beale was chosen to take the penalty shot at goal and he did, denying Argentina an iron maiden win in the Rugby Championship with the Wallabies secured just their 2nd win of the Championship.
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