In the latest ODT Summer Sports chat we catch with catch up with head honcho of surf life-saving in Otago and Southland Brent Matehaere to find out what is happening over summer.
New Zealand were knocked out of the world mixed championships in Scotland with a 6-1 loss to the United States in the first round of the playoffs at the weekend.
New Zealand star Ally Wollaston earned her second rainbow jersey after a brilliant victory in the four-discipline omnium at the world track championships in Denmark on Saturday.
New Zealand have retained the America's Cup with a 7-2 win over Britain, after a performance that prompted defeated skipper Sir Ben Ainslie to label them as the "best team ever".
Two athletes, one from Britain and the other from Mexico, have died on the first day of the Torremolinos-Andalucia Triathlon Championship Finals in Spain.
NZ have stormed to within a point of retaining the America's Cup, piling the pressure on their British challengers by taking a 6-2 "match point" lead in the first-to-seven series.
Britain have won a second race in their America's Cup final against NZ in tricky sea conditions, cutting the holders' lead to 4-2 and prompting skipper Sir Ben Ainslie to say "the comeback is on".