London 2012 Olympics - Valerie Adams : New Zealand, Athletics. Valerie Adams left off startlist. Last updated 13:43 06/08/2012 The New Zealand Olympic Committee is refusing to answer any questions over how someone forgot to register defending champion and gold medal favourite Valerie Adams for the 2012 Olympic Games.
The startling mistake emerged only hours before Adams' Olympic shot put title defence, forcing the NZOC to plead for an emergency amendment from the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations. The IOC and IAAF have relented and Adams is in, but serious questions remain around the oversight which angered Adams on the eve of her Olympic title defence. But Dave Currie, chef de mission of the New Zealand Olympic team, said the NZOC would not be responding to the snafu until it had the answers to what happened.
"The questions being asked are very good questions, but we need a little while to ascertain quite what has happened and how to deal with it," Currie told Fairfax Media. "I can't answer those questions right now. Valerie Adams. Valerie Kasanita Adams (formerly known as Valerie Vili), ONZM (born 6 October 1984) is a shot putter from New Zealand.
She is a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion and two-time Olympic and Commonwealth champion. She currently holds the New Zealand, Oceanian, Commonwealth and equal World Championship records with a personal best throw of 21.24 metres. Career[edit] In 1998 Adams met former javelin thrower Kirsten Hellier, who would become her coach for the next 11 years. Adams first came to prominence when winning the World Youth Championships in 2001, with a throw of 16.87 m. She finished fifth at the 2003 World Championships at eighteen years of age. In 2007, Adams went to the Osaka World Championships as a favourite to take a medal due to her being one of only three women to throw over 20 m before the championships. NZ sports star: Valerie Adams. NZ sports star: Valerie Adams When Kiwi shot-put champion Valerie Adams won the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she looked skyward in memory of her mother, Lilika, who had died when she was a teenager.
By that stage, the six-foot-four (1.93m) Rotorua-born Adams was already a veteran New Zealand athlete and ranked second in the world. Adams would go on to become the reigning Olympic, World and Commonwealth shot-put champions, and New Zealand’s foremost sportsperson - winning gold at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games, 2008 Beijing Olympics (the country’s second gold in track and field since 1976), scoring an unbeaten 25 consecutive victories at the IAAF World Championships and breaking a slew of world records.
The Kiwi champion’s two wins at the 2010 Halberg Awards represented her fourth "sportswoman of the year" title, and third supreme Halberg Award. It was those two moments that prepared her mentally for the challenges and wins that lay ahead. Halberg Awards. Valerie Adams loses Olympic shot. Last updated 00:00 06/09/2007 INQUIRING: Watercare's Jonathan Piggot with Rachael White, 9, Georgia Dakin and Molly Bennett, both 8, from Meadowbank School.
Meadowbank School's year 4 students have been studying Auckland, our home, this term. As part of the study, room 5 students Rachael White, 9, Georgia Dakin and Molly Bennett, both 8, set out to find what happens each time a toilet is flushed. They were given a tour of the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant by Jonathan Piggot of Watercare Services. The trip was organised by Matt Mates, senior wastewater treatment specialist with consulting engineers AWT New Zealand. Mr Mates was involved with designing and commissioning the plant over eight years.
Meadowbank School makes environmental issues a major part of the curriculum and is one of just five Green Gold Enviroschools in New Zealand. The school received the national supreme award for environmental education in 2005. BBC Sport - London 2012 Olympics - Valerie Adams : New Zealand, Athletics. Athletes - Adams Valerie Biography. COUNTRY New Zealand DATE OF BIRTH 6 OCT 1984 Focus on Athletes biographies are produced by the IAAF Communications Dept, and not by the IAAF Statistics and Documentation Division.
If you have any enquiries concerning the information, please use the Contact IAAF page, selecting ‘Focus on Athletes Biographies’ in the drop down menu of contact area options. Updated 30 August 2010 Valerie ADAMS (previously VILI), New Zealand (Shot Put) Born 6 October 1984Coached by Didier Poppe Valerie Adams had a reluctant start in athletics. In 1998, Adams was introduced to Kirsten Hellier, and together they embarked upon an immensely successful partnership. Adams was selected for her first representative team to the 1999 World Youth Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and finished 10th with a best throw of 12.82m in the final.
In 2001 Adams won gold in the World Youth Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, with a throw of 16.87m. 2006 ended for Vili with recuperation after an operation to her shoulder. Where will Valerie Adams get her medal? - Olympics 2012. Valerie Adams wants to share her Olympic gold medal with all New Zealanders, and it seems they want to share it with her too - but the question is when and where?
The shot-put champion is competing in Europe and will not return until next month at the earliest. It could also take months to strip Belarusian Nadzeya Ostapchuk of her London medal after she tested positive for the banned steroid metenolone. Calls are growing for a victory ceremony in New Zealand as soon as possible - even if Adams has not received her medal. A ceremony for the 27-year-old before the All Blacks play Australia at Eden Park on Saturday week was popular online. A parade through downtown Auckland, similar to the one held for the victorious All Blacks after the Rugby World Cup, also has been suggested. Adams' manager, Nick Cowan, said the athlete - who is based in Switzerland - wanted to share her gold medal with everyone who had supported her.
"Everything's just been overwhelming, really. "