Talk Sport with Sue Clarke, Canoe Slalom Bay of Plenty
All eyes are on Rio with four of the Bay's home grown talent representing in canoe slalom.
Tauranga paddlers Mike Dawson and Luuka Jones will fly the Kiwi flag while siblings Ella and Bryden Nicholas will represent their father's homeland the Cook Islands.
It hasn't been all about Olympics over the last few months as the competition season in Europe featured three World Cups and the Junior and Under-23 World Champs in Poland.
Bay of Plenty was well represented across these teams with some very encouraging performances from the Bay's younger athletes.
Callum Gilbert, 20, who has come through all the Bay of Plenty programmes, showed great consistency to make all three senior World Cup semifinals and the semifinal for the Under-23 World Championships, missing a final by less than two seconds.