New Zealand has blasted away the winter doldrums on “Super Saturday” with sporting success.This was the “the greatest day in New Zealand's Olympic Games history” with a bag of five medals. Two gold medals to rowing twins Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell and shot putter Valerie Vili, a silver to track cyclist Hayden Roulston and bronzes to singles sculler Mahe Drysdale and fellow rowers George Bridgewater and Nathan Twaddle in the men's pair.
The icing on the cake was the All Blacks emphatic 19-0 rugby test win over the Springboks in Cape Town.
Major sporting weekends can be a quiet affair for many moteliers. Impromptu weekend trips away are put on hold, with many Kiwis preferring to stay at home in familiar surroundings and cuddle up to their own TVs.
On the positive side, hopefully the weekend’s sporting success will temporally jolt Kiwis out of the winter blues and get them out on the road to enjoy some motel hospitality.
