Manukau Mayor Len Brown says John Banks' surprise plan to bring the 2020 Olympic Games to Auckland is a "flight of fancy".

High-performance sport has received an unprecedented cash injection, re-energising a sector in danger of "slipping off track".

Photos from the New Zealand Ironman 2010 in Taupo.

Defending champion Gordon Walker is perfectly placed to assess the opposition ahead of tomorrow's gruelling Coast to Coast.