The International Rugby Board has released a new ad to promote ticket sales for next year's Rugby World Cup - featuring all of the major rugby nations with the exception of the two-time winning All Blacks.

Join Tony Veitch and his panel of sporting celebrities and commentators as they discuss their unique and entertaining review of the weekend’s sport. Bravely tackling the issues behind the weekends winners and losers.

Join allblacks.com inside the All Blacks changing room after the 51-20 victory over the Wallabies at Eden Park to retain the Bledisloe cup.

Join Tony Veitch and his panel of sporting celebrities and commentators as they discuss their unique and entertaining review of the weekend’s sport. Bravely tackling the issues behind the weekends winners and losers.

Dean talks about day two of the Extreme sailing series regatta in Cardiff. Another day where things were not ideal, punctuated with a collision that took the port rudder out in race 5.

Wallabies head coach Ewen McKenzie knows his team can improve a lot from last weeks 12-12 draw, 'We we're off at some key moments and we know we can improve a lot this week'.

Watch this spectacular finish to the 2014 4x400m European Championships relay race. Video / Youtube - Deportes Plus

It's been a long week to wait for the All Blacks as they have treated last week's draw like a loss, the players and coach are determined to retain the Bledisloe cup with a much improved performance.

Cambridge trainer Roger James discusses Silent Achiever’s preparation so far, targets, weights and jockeys ahead of her trip to Melbourne to tackle the biggest races of the spring.

NZ Herald Rugby experts Gregor Paul and Wynne Gray look ahead to the second Bledisloe test at Eden Park and examine the draw last weekend in Sydney.

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Join Tony Veitch and his panel of sporting celebrities and commentators as they discuss their unique and entertaining review of the weekend’s sport. Bravely tackling the issues behind the weekends winners and losers.

A close look at the two yellow cards in last night's 12-12 draw between the All Blacks and Wallabies. Were they deserved? Courtesy Sky Skport

The All Blacks unbeaten run continues but their run of consecutive victories is over. The record of 18 wins is not theirs and they can't really have much complaint about it.

Steeplechase athlete Victor Garcia manages sensational faceplant during European Championships. Video / YouTube - All Sports TV

Parker is fighting American Keith Thompson over six rounds and is currently ranked #15 in the WBO.

Keith Thompson has promised to provide New Zealand heavyweight Joseph Parker with a stern test when they fight on Sunday. Thompson and Parker encountered each other for the first time at today's press conference, with the American, who had just flown in from his Alabama home, saying: "He seems to be a tough guy but I came here to win so we'll see."

The famous "Rocky Steps" in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art have provided inspiration for many boxers over the years, including one David Tua, and it was here today on a bright sunny morning that fellow New Zealanders Joseph Parker and Robbie Berridge found themselves ahead of their fights this weekend.

Fairytales do come true after all. The Waratahs, after 18 seasons of underachievement, finally won their first Super Rugby title tonight. Bernard Foley and Richie McCaw reflect on the Waratahs victory. Plenty could be made of the decision by Craig Joubert to penalise Richie McCaw for coming in from the side, but in the overall wash up, neither side could really complain.

Villumsen, for so long the unlucky lady of Kiwi cycling, overcome a significant deficit in the final stages of last night's race to take gold and, at long last, hear God Defend New Zealand on the podium. "It was incredible - it's the first time the anthem's been for me. I normally hear everyone else's anthems and not my own."

Valerie Adams won gold in the women's shot put this morning in Glasgow - and it's NZ's 600th Commonwealth Games medal.

Lauren Boyle finally ended New Zealand's 20-year wait for a gold medal in women's able-bodied swimming. After winning silver in her previous event she thought her chances of winning gold were all but gone. Boyle finished strong to take top spot on the podium.

Adams joined a group of All Blacks and their strength and conditioning trainer, Nic Gill, in Auckland today to share his wisdom with 10 promising young athletes. Adams along with All Blacks Liam Messam, Aaron Smith, Julian Savea and Tawera Kerr-Barlow will run through a day-long programme of intensive physical training and classroom sessions include goal setting, training techniques and nutrition.

One last lift was the difference between the top of the podium and the depths of despair for Richie Patterson. The Kiwi weightlifter, ranked No 1 in the Commonwealth and winner of silver four years ago, nearly came away with nothing from this morning's (NZT) 85kg competition in Glasgow. Two no-lifts in the clean-and-jerk saw him on the precipice of disaster, threatening to squander a top performance in the snatch and the type of form that left him supremely confident of victory. As is turned out, that confidence was justified. Eventually.

New Zealand made it double silver at Hampden Park this morning, with shot putter Tom Walsh and hammer thrower Julia Ratcliffe each finishing second. But the emotions were starkly different. Where Princeton University-based Ratcliffe was delighted with her performance, Walsh was doing it tough under the main stand after being shaded by Jamaican O'Dayne Richards.

The 31-strong squad, which will again be captained by the All Blacks indomitable, regular skipper Richie McCaw, features the return of the world's leading test points scorer Daniel Carter, who is back in the national side after his extended break; and the return of Blues and Auckland outside back Charles Piutau and Chiefs and Bay of Plenty loose forward Sam Cane.

The Crusaders' juggernaut rolls on for another week, after the Sharks were dismantled piece by piece in Christchurch last night by a team who look in clinical, and ominous, form.

The Loch Lomond suite in Glasgow's media centre had never experienced anything quite like a Usain Bolt press conference before these Games. Bolt, most probably, had never experienced a press conference quite like the one he faced in the Loch Lomond suite.

NZ weightlifters Stanislav Chalaev and Richie Patterson are both aiming to go one better in Glasgow, after claiming Silver in Delhi.