Who needs AC/DC when you've got the Halberg awards?Some of New Zealand's finest athletes may have shown their bogan roots by hinting they would rather be at the AC/DC concert last night, but they still showed up for the sporting community's party of the y
Who needs AC/DC when you've got the Halberg awards?
Some of New Zealand’s finest athletes may have shown their bogan roots by hinting they would rather be at the AC/DC concert last night, but they still showed up for the sporting community's party of the year.
Awards ceremonies can be tedious affairs, as mutual back slapping reaches enormous proportions.
But Private Bin still spotted enough big business leaders eager to rub shoulders with young and glamorous athletes.
This suggests the fine line between business and sport is more blurred than ever, (although one Wellington-based business leader was content to just scowl at anybody who came close. We wouldn't want to face him in the boardroom).
Unsurprisingly, the night belonged to the country’s rowers,with the former Evers-Swindell twins named top athletes of the decade, while Valerie Villi picked up the top Halberg award for the third year running.
(FUN FACT: Rugby players might be members of New Zealand’s number one sport, but have only won the top prize four times in 60 years, with three of those awards handed out before 1965),
But before the awards were handed out, the athletes were treated to the hip-hop debut of Sir Murray Halberg, kicking it old-skool with the bling on the big screen.
DJ Sir Muzza gave New Zealand’s finest bodies a lesson on hardness (when he was a lad, they just called stress fractures “sore legs”) before Prime Minister John Key showed up for his first appearance of the night
The little matter of a malfunctioning microphone that rendered him inaudible for most of the crowd did not getting in the way of John’s good vibes.
Those good vibes even lasted through the Prime Minister’s tongue-in-cheek dig at his own cycleway plans.
