You won’t see this event at the 2024 Olympics, but you will see one of the participants from the Team Challenge at the Poverty Bay A&P Show on Saturday afternoon in Games action — albeit a long way from Paris.
Four four-person teams, representing various causes, were required to negotiate an obstacle course involving such challenges as consuming pizza and beer; a combined wheelbarrow and sack race; rolling a wool bale; throwing rugby balls into the back of a utility vehicle while under fire from water bomb-throwing kids; and a miscellaneous leg in which team members carried surfboards, fruit-picking bags and pine tree-planting bags in the dash to the finish.
Mayor Stoltz led her Mayor’s Army team to victory and the $1000 first prize, along with an extra $400, which were donated to Vette.
Other teams were the Fruit Loops (supporting Gisborne Terrier Race Against Time), Gully Runners (Cancer Society) and Evergreen (#Hear4U).
