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Mahé Drysdale: Why he stuck his oar into Tauranga politics

Michele Hewitson
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Contributing writer·New Zealand Listener·
11 mins to read

Here’s a theory. Tauranga’s new mayor, the now-retired Olympic gold-medal-winning rower, Mahé Drysdale, wanted to be mayor because he needed to win another competition.

I really should have known better than to run that one by him. It drove him right back into campaign mode. “I always like to be competitive, but I think it was more than competitiveness. It was just kind of what I honestly believed I could do for the city. I felt like Tauranga was a

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