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New Zealand keep series alive after England’s dramatic collapse – Yahoo Sports

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England captain Heather Knight is run out during England's collapse when well-placed in their chase - Evan Barnes/Getty Images

A stunning last over from New Zealands Suzie Bates and a dramatic England collapse allowed the hosts to keep the five-match series alive with a three-run victory in the third T20 International at Nelson.

Sophie Devine, having won the toss, led from the front for New Zealand, hitting two sixes and five fours in her 37-ball 60, punishing both the pace of Lauren Bell (none for 40) and left-arm spin of Linsey Smith (none for 39).

England were hampered in the field by the absence of Sarah Glenn who banged her head as she fell heavily at mid-off, having dropped a chance to catch Bernadine Bezuidenhout on 26. Although Glenn bowled the next over and had Bates stumped by Amy Jones, she had to leave the field and was replaced by Hollie Armitage, making her international debut at the age of 26 as a concussion substitute.

Heather Knight shouldered the responsibility of bowling Glenns last three overs which she did respectably if non-threateningly but without their leg-spinner, who had gone for less than five runs an over in taking two wickets in the earlier matches, England could not stifle New Zealands run rate. Although England have successfully chased more than 155 before, it would have been a record against New Zealand but they made a remarkably good fist of it at first, having lost opener Sophia Dunkley, run out for a duck.

A blistering 47-ball 71 from Maia Bouchier, who put on 92 for the second wicket with Tammy Beaumont, took England within 30 runs of the target with five overs to go before she was winkled out by Devine after hitting 11 fours and a six.

With seven wickets left, it should have been smooth sailing for the touring side even after Knight was run out for 10 and was swiftly followed back to the hutch by Jones, Bess Heath and Armitage, who fell for one with eight needed off five balls. Bates, bowling her first over of the match right at the death, was magnificent with her nagging medium pace and restricted England to two singles and a two, ending the match by having Charlie Dean stumped off the last ball as she tried to find the boundary.

England were cruising in pursuit of 156, needing only 29 runs from 29 balls with eight wickets left, before a remarkable collapse ended in a dramatic three-run victory for New Zealand pic.twitter.com/FRVtfimdEJ

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A lot of good stuff and a quite frustrating end, said Knight. We needed to be a bit more smart and show composure at the back end. Maia batted outstandingly. She came out with the intent we wanted and showed her class.

A frustrating one not to finish off but remembering we are an inexperienced group and are missing a few players. Those girls will learn a hell of a lot.

The series moves to Wellington for the final two matches on Wednesday and Friday before the sides turn to the 50-over format.

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U.S. Men’s Olympic Soccer Team to Face France, New Zealand and Asia-Africa Playoff Winner in Group A at 2024 … – U.S. Soccer

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CHICAGO (March 20, 2024) The United States will face France, New Zealand and the Asia-Africa intercontinental playoff winner in Group A at the 2024 Olympic Mens Soccer Tournament, set for July 24-Aug. 9 in seven cities and stadiums across France. The Olympic Final Draw took place this evening at the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee in Saint-Denis.

Paris 2024 marks the U.S. mens first time back at the Games since 2008. The USA will kick off its Olympic return on Wednesday, July 24 two days before the Opening Ceremony against host France (9 p.m. local / 3 p.m. ET) at Stade de Marseille in Marseille. The U.S. will then take on New Zealand on Saturday, July 27 (7 p.m. local / 1 p.m. ET) and finish the group stage against the AFC-CAF playoff winner on Tuesday, July 30 (7 p.m. local / 1 p.m. ET). The AFC-CAF playoff will be contested between Guinea, the fourth-place finisher at the 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations, and the fourth-place finisher from the upcoming 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.

Date

Opponent

Venue

Kickoff

Wednesday, July 24

France

Stade de Marseille; Marseille, France

9 p.m. local / 3 p.m. ET

Saturday, July 27

New Zealand

Stade de Marseille; Marseille, France

7 p.m. local / 1 p.m. ET

Tuesday, July 30

AFC-CAF Playoff Winner

Stade Geoffroy-Guichard; Saint-Etienne, France

7 p.m. local / 1 p.m. ET

Its an important day for every team to learn their opponents and the challenges that await in the Olympic Games, said Mens Olympic Team head coach Marko Mitrovi. We know that this is an elite tournament, with 16 elite teams that are the best in their confederations. Now, we can picture the opponents, the cities and the stadiums where well play. The excitement is here. We will keep that excitement over the next four months of work, preparing in the best way possible to convert that excitement into achievement on the field.

The Mens Olympic Soccer Tournament is restricted to players under the age of 23, with an allowance for three overage players. The competition features 16 teams, with the top two finishers in each group advancing to the quarterfinals.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

France

Argentina

AFC 2*

AFC 1*

USA

Morocco

Spain

Paraguay

AFC-CAF Playoff^ Winner

AFC 3*

Egypt

Mali

New Zealand

Ukraine

Dominican Republic

Israel

*Will be determined at the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup. ^Will be played between Guinea (fourth place at 2023 U-23 Africa Cup of Nations) and fourth-place finisher at 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup

Should the USA advance to the knockout stage, it would meet a team from Group B.

The U.S. was drawn out of Pot 3 alongside Egypt, Mali and the third-place finisher from Asia. Teams were sorted into pots based on a ranking determined by success in the last five Mens Olympic Soccer Tournaments, with more recent tournament results weighted more heavily, as well as performance in confederation qualifying tournaments.

Mens soccer has been a part of the Olympic program since France 1900. The tournament served as the sports world championship until the launch of the FIFA World Cup in 1930. In 1992, it became an under-23 competition with an allowance for three overage players. The U.S. mens best finish came at Sydney 2000, when the likes of Landon Donovan, Brad Friedel and Josh Wolff led the red, white and blue to fourth place.

The U.S. qualified for the 2024 Olympics with a dominant performance at the 2022 Concacaf U-20 Championship in Honduras, defeating the host nation 3-0 in the tournament semifinals to secure its Olympic berth.

The U.S. men have never faced France or New Zealand at the Olympics.

FRANCE FIFA Country Code: FRA 2024 Olympic Qualifying: Qualified automatically as host country, quarterfinalist at 2023 UEFA U-21 Championship Olympic Games Appearances: 14 (1900, 1908, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1948, 1952, 1960, 1968, 1976, 1984, 1996, 2020, 2024) Best Olympic Finish: Champion (1984) Overall Record in Olympics: 18-14-5 U-23 Era Record in Olympics: 3-3-1 Record vs. USA at Olympics: 0-0-0 Coach: Thierry Henry (FRA) Leading Olympic Qualifying Scorers: Bradley Barcola, Rayan Cherki (two goals) Language: French

NEW ZEALAND FIFA Country Code: NZL 2024 Olympic Qualifying: Champion at 2023 OFC Mens Olympic Qualifying Tournament Olympic Games Appearances: Four (2008, 2012, 2020, 2024) Best Olympic Finish: Quarterfinals (2020) Overall Record in Olympics: 1-5-4 U-23 Era Record in Olympics: 1-5-4 Record vs. USA at Olympics: 0-0-0 Coach: Darren Bazeley (ENG) Leading Olympic Qualifying Scorers: Riley Bidois (five goals), Jesse Randall (four goals) Language: English, Maori

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New Zealand to Ban Disposable Vapes | TIME – TIME

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After scrapping a plan several months ago to ban people born after 2008 from buying tobacco cigarettes, the New Zealand government on Wednesday announced a total ban on single-use e-cigarettesalso known as disposable vapesand said it will increase the fines on retailers selling cigarettes and vapes to those under 18, in the countrys latest approach to discourage smoking among youth.

The rapid rise in youth vaping has been a real concern for parents, teachers, and health professionals, Associate Health Minister Casey Costello said when announcing the changes to New Zealands Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act. She added that reusable vapes would remain available for adults as they are a key smoking cessation device but that too many teenagers use disposable vapes because theyre cheap and remain too easy to get.

Costello said the New Zealand government is committed to tackling youth vaping and to continue to drive down smoking rates to achieve the Smokefree goal of less than 5% of the population smoking daily by 2025. As of last year, she said, 6.8% of the population smoked daily.

Under the new rules, fines for retailers caught selling regulated products like vapes and cigarettes to minors would be increased from NZ$10,000 (about $6,000) to NZ$100,000 ($60,000). Costello said the New Zealand Cabinet also reconfirmed a range of additional smoking-related regulations set to take effect on March 21, including a ban on vaping products with images of cartoons or toys on the packaging, and limiting flavor names to generic descriptions. Meanwhile, reusable vape products will have until Oct. 1 of this year to include removable batteries and child-proofing mechanisms.

New Zealand is the latest country to ban disposable vapes after the U.K. announced a similar measure in January. And New Zealands neighbor Australia has banned the importation of disposable vapes since Jan. 1 amid concerns over widespread teenage use. As of December last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said 34 countries had banned e-cigarettes, while 74 countries had no vape regulations in place.

Not all in New Zealand are on board with the countrys new ban, however. A spokesperson for right-wing pressure group New Zealand Taxpayers Union warned that banning disposable vapes outright will have a number of adverse effects. We welcome the proposed changes in relation to harsher penalties and enforcement for those illegally selling vaping products to minors but extending this crackdown to a ban on disposable vapes will simply drive people back towards smoking and encourage a blackmarket of unregulated vaping products as seen in Australia, Connor Molloy said in a statement posted on X. This ban will simply [make] it harder and more expensive to quit smoking, instead encouraging people to remain or revert to smoking, or to consume black market vaping products where the risks are completely unknown.

The WHO has argued that vapes are not shown to be effective for quitting tobacco use at the population level and urged governments worldwide to ban their sale to all ages or implement measures that would dissuade the public, particularly children, from using them.

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Around the world: New Zealand settling into World Championship – worldcurling.org

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Having travelled from the other side of the world, in terms of geography, New Zealand may have had the longest journey to Sydney for the BKT Tires Womens Worlds.

On the ice, the New Zealand team believe their journey has just begun.

They had a troubled debut last year in Sandviken, Sweden, hampered by illness and failing to win a single game. But now, the New Zealanders have made the historic step of winning their first game by 8-6 over Scotland.

As skip Jessica Smith says, beating Scotland, getting a first win thats pretty big for us. We came out last year and obviously we didnt win any games, so getting that first win on the board was a big step forward for us. Hopefully we can get another one out there in some part of the week.

Weve got last years experience behind us now, added third player Bridget Becker. Its not so overwhelming. We didnt know what to expect last year. This year coming into it, we just felt a little bit more confident and a little bit more comfortable.

Bridget admitted they had a bit of a rough worlds last year.

We had illness and things werent going our way. This time round, were all fit and healthy and everythings gone a little bit more the way that we hoped it would. With that behind us, its only onwards and upwards, hopefully.

The situation many of the other teams at this level enjoy with many of the top nations now fully-funded.By contrast, the New Zealanders had to take unpaid leave from their full-time jobs and are involved in a variety of fund-raising back home. This includes a new business venture by Jess, who is now manufacturing lip-balm, which she is selling to help support their campaign.

However, behind all this effort, Bridget gives voice to a familiar sentiment among curlers at all levels, from all countries its always fun why else would I be curling if I didnt enjoy it?

Despite the real competitive challenges this team faces, like all the others in Sydney, they have one eye on the 2026 Olympic Winter Games.Jess confirms, the Olympic Games is on our agenda, but for us to get funding, we need to be in the top eight in the world, so weve got a little bit to go.

Having said that, they are aware of the challenges they face in their Olympic quest. Bridget says, we live all over New Zealand and we get to practise probably a quarter of what the rest of these teams do together.

Given the New Zealanders popularity throughout the curling world, it is not just the team themselves who would enjoy seeing them continue to make improvements.

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New Zealand will ban disposable e-cigarettes in a bid to prevent minors from taking up the habit – The Associated Press

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Thailand revokes visas of New Zealand tourists after roadside brawl with police – South China Morning Post

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Thailands immigration authorities have revoked the visas of two New Zealand tourists accused of assaulting a traffic police officer on a popular resort island in an incident widely shared online, police said on Monday.

Brothers Hamish Day and Oscar Mattson Day were charged with offences including robbery, causing physical harm to an on-duty officer, attempted bribery and driving a motorcycle without a licence, Phuket provincial police chief Sinlert Sukhum told a news conference. The chief said police would request the court to deny their release on bail.

Police said officer Somsak Noo-iat on Saturday spotted the men speeding on their motorbikes and tried to stop them. They allegedly tried to speed away then tried to offer a bribe to Somsak, who refused to take it. He tried to film the two men on his phone, and they allegedly tackled him and wrestled the gun away from him, causing a bullet to be fired. No one was injured by the bullet, police said.

In the video, bystanders could be heard shouting at them to stop. The footage went viral online and was broadcast by Thai news outlets.

The police chief alleged that the man who attacked the officer is a mixed martial arts fighter.

The chief said the brothers denied all charges and declined to give any statement.

The brothers could not immediately be reached. The video did not show what happened before the tussle.

The Chalong police chief Ekkarat Plaiduang, Somsaks supervisor, said the officer was injured but recovering well.

Phuket governor Sophon Suwannarat said such attacks were unacceptable and that officials will tighten scrutiny of tourists who may behave inappropriately or break the laws.