Poem: Weld
When I was 14 or 15 I was selected to take part in an elite training camp for hockey players. It was called an ‘academy’ which is a fancy term for Bootcamp.
I was pretty excited – and honoured – because Ramesh Patel was going to be there. And he had been in the New Zealand team that won gold at the Olympic Games in 1976. (Which was the year I was born …
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