Well, imagine what would the Olympics look like? Without one of it's powerhouse nations like USA, China & Russia? Think again.
The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games: How's this still a thing?
The real thing is...that New Zealand have claimed both 14 gold and silver medals & 17 bronze medals (Argubaly the most successful Commonwealth Games outside of New Zealand when Auckland hosted it in 1990 by bringing home 17 golds, 14 Silvers & 27 Bronzes (Grand total: 58) surpassing Manchester, England in 2002 with 11 golds, 13 silvers & 21 bronzes with a total of 45), bringing up the medal count of 45 (That is the same as the 2002 one), so without further or do, let's give the rundown of the New Zealand athletes who have claimed their medals at Glasgow, Scotland:
1st up, the gold medal winners:
Eddie Dawkins, Ethan Mitchell & Sam Webster: Track cycling, mens team sprint.
Sam Webster: Track Cycling, mens sprint.
Tom Scully: Track Cycling, men's points race.
Shane Archbold: Track Cycling, men's scratch race.
Jo Edwards: Lawn Bowl's, women's Singles.
Sophie Pascoe: Swimming, women's 100 m backstroke SB9 & women's individual 200 medley SM10.
Sally Johnston: Shooting, women's 50m rifle prone.
Richard ''Richie'' Patterson: Weightlifting, men's 85kg.
Anton Cooper: Cycling, mountain bike.
Lauren Boyle: Swimming, women's 400 m freestlye.
Val Adams (Half-brother of NBA star Steven Adams & most decorated but highly-ultra successful New Zeland athlete): Athletics, women's shot put.
Linda Villumsen (Born in Denmark, which is not part of the Commonwealth along with the big 3 powerhouse nations that I mentioned before): Road cycling, women's time trial.
And of course, David Nyika in the men's light heavyweight boxing.
And the silver medalists are: Judoka's Adrian Leat & Moira de Villiers, the cyclists Simon van Velthoven & Sam Webster (Also the gold medalist), the All Blacks sevens team (Lost to South Africa who finally conquered the gold medal in sevens rugby at last since the sport was introduced in 1998 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), shotputter Tom Walsh, hammer thrower Julia Ratcliffe, swimmer Lauren Boyle (Who already brought home the gold), mountain biker Sam Gaze (One of Anton Cooper's teammates, thus rounding out a Kiwi 1 - 2), weightlifter Stanislav Chalaev (Born in Russia formerly the Soviet Union/USSR), the lawn bowls trio of Bennett, Noble & Wynks, another Boxer which is the other David: Light, another cyclist Jack Bauer (Fresh off the Tour de France, won by Vicenzo Nibali of Italy) & the Silver Ferns netball team.
And finally, the list of bronze medalists:
Track Cyclists: Gold medalist Archbold with Bulling, Kennett & Marc Ryan (Men's team pursuit + Ryan also in the men's individual pursuit), Edward Dawkins, Matt Archibald & Aaron Gate.
3 Judokas: Darcina Manuel, Jason Koster & Tim Slyfield.
The long distance runners: Zane Robertson & Nick Willis.
The lawn bowling quartet of Boyd, Goddard, McIlroy & Smith.
A squash player: Joelle King.
A Weightlifter: Tracey Lambrechs.
Both Wrestlers: Sam Belkin & Tayla Ford.
A Gymnast: David Bishop.
And last but not least, the Black Sticks women's hockey team.
And there you have it about the elite list of NZ athletes who have conquered Glasgow with the next one being held down under in 4 years time (2018): at Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia.
P.S. Well, I am afraid I have got some bad news, BAD NEWS!! That, you know what, the Crusaders are poor losers in the Super Rugby final even though that Richie McCaw (The All Blacks captain) had conceded the penalty, allowing the Michael Hooper-led Waratahs (Although Dave Dennis is the skipper) for that 45 metre penalty shot at goal to be taken by Wallaby Bernard Foley, is for both the lead & the title by joining the elites of the other 6 Super Rugby champions, & then all of a sudden, the home crowd at ANZ Stadium had gone berserk after that match winning penalty by Foley (Not only the team has chosen Stadium Australia instead of Allianz Stadium because of the home advantage), & once the ball had been kicked out of touch, they had simply became the NEW!!! THE NEW!!!!!!!!!! SUPER RUGBY CHAMPIONS!!!!! THE WARATAHS!!!!!!!!!! Effectively ending the Chiefs 2 year reign as champions of Super Rugby...THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MUHUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (EVIL LAUGHTER).
