Sport’s Richest Get Richer

Created on September 22, 2015

The world’s highest-paid athletes are richer than those who dominated the same list 20 years ago, according to Forbes magazine.

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao are well clear in the latest Forbes annual list of the highest paid athletes. American Mayweather tops the list with earnings of $US300m ($NZ425m) – that includes salary and endorsements. Tiger Woods’ career has gone down the drain, but his earning potential remains high thanks to endorsements.

The top ranked woman comes in at 26th place with earnings of $42.2m – that being tennis star Maria Sharapova. In comparrison, Serena Williams is 20 places back, with earnings of $35m.

Russell Coutts is New Zealand’s richest athlete, earning $13m last year. This article is done by: Jo Banbury

Supporting the Tongan team

Last weekend the Rugby World Cup 2015 started, so my sisters, my mum and I decided that we should go out for breakfast at FORTUNA to support the the Tongan team, ( ‘Ikale Tahi ) and we did. The breakfast was really delicious and the Tongan team was a pretty cool team, although they lost their first match against Georgia and I was a bit disappointed, but I know they’ll try better next time.

       

My brave dad

My dad is someone special and someone that I really admire, he’s a strong person.My dad has been through a lot of hard moments, but he is very lucky because he has survived through it. My dad means a lot to me and I’d even die for him. If he dies there won’t be any points of living life without having a dad that kisses me at night and put me to sleep, look after me and love me. Dad had some tough moments in the past, like this other time he broke his right ankle, but he still managed to get up to take me to school, he still managed to go to our family events, church and school events and he could still managed to get up and cook food for me, when my mum was busy at work. It got to the moment that he was really sick and had to spend two months,  at the hospital, but he survived through it because he is brave. My dad is one of a kind he is my love and my hero. I thank god everyday for giving me the best and loving dad that any kid would ask for. I love you dad!

Myron Simpson

Yesterday Ruapotaka School had a assembly, and it was about a man named Myron Simpson who came to talk to us about his achievements, his cycletest life and his goals.He is an Olympic cyclist who won a silver medal in Mexico in 2007. Myron first ride on a bike when he was 3 years old, and later on he started to get better at ride bikes so he took off his training wheels. The fastest he has ride a bike was 110 kph. Myron Simpson is still riding bikes in his 25 years of age.