It's not everyday youngsters can challenge their sporting heroes to a race down the slopes of Skyline Rotorua.
Five lucky Cure Kids ambassadors, from as far north as South Auckland, donned their helmets yesterday and went luging with New Zealand's women's rugby team, the Black Ferns.
Keegan Armstrong, 14, from Kawerau said being a Cure Kids ambassador was a great opportunity. "It gives me hope to know there is a charity out there that cares about us."
Keegan is living with type-one diabetes and asthma. He planned to go to the Black Fern game in Whakatane in a couple of weeks.
"It's great to meet the athletes you watch on television and I feel really lucky to be picked."