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The Federation of New Zealand skeleton has announced the list of athletes who will participate in the next Olympics in Sochi.
Tuesday 4 February 2014 2 minutes reading time
Will Katharine Eustace and Ben Sandford (pictured), the two skelettonisti who will represent New Zealand at the Olympic Winter Games.
Eustace thirty-eight years from Wanaka is back from his best season of his career where he racked up three placings in the top ten and above all in Lake Placid in the third round he even missed the podium by centering the fourth. The kiwi athlete'' which in summer is dedicated to his true profession, physiotherapy, was the star of'' during the summer of a long campaign of crowfunding to get the necessary budget to best prepare all'' event at Five circles and it seems that the donations are going to succeed as a quest ever since year'' Katharine Eustace was expressed at such high levels in the World Cup.
Sandford however, has since its a career full of great satisfaction that the apex there was two seasons ago when Lake Placid took a surprising bronze world. At the next Olympics almost thirty-five of Rotorua will seek to improve the tenth place in Turin.
Women's Skeleton: Katharine Eustace
Male Skeleton: Ben Sandford
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