New Zealand. A nation built on No. 8 wire, a can-do attitude, and the ability to punch well above our weight on a global sporting stage.
What true-blue Kiwi would not have been moved by the surreal raw emotion of Ruby Tui getting more than 40,000 ecstatic world champions to join in a rendition of Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi?
A moment to be savoured and remembered for years to come, and one that is sure to have Ruby on a lot of Kiwi kids’ hero’s lists. But it’s not just rugby that we Kiwis have excelled at, and some of the more obscure records on our achievement list are worthy of a look back.
On a warm March day in 2016, one Angela Fredericks warmed up her forearms and butter knife to get among that most Kiwi of summer day activities - shucking a good green-lipped mussel.