Mitchell ClaytonCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): I would like to rise on behalf of New Zealand First to also add our congratulations to the New Zealand Olympic team but not just to the sportspeople—men and women—who competed so feverishly on the international stage but to all the families the supporters the team members the coaches and the physios who backed this team up and actually enabled them to get there. In fact every single taxpayer in this country can take pride in knowing that the hard-earned money that they have worked for has gone into supporting this very iconic event that happens every 4 years to see such a fantastic result by this country. It is certainly a result that we have not felt in the past—receiving our highest ever medal tally of 18 which certainly surpasses the 14 medals that we were tipped to receive. We also note the four gold the nine silver and the five bronze medals.Those people are heroes but there were people who also missed out on the international stage people who we thought were going to make it and did not. The fact that New Zealanders still stand in solidarity and support for those the Black Sticks being one of them—twice in a row they missed out only just but we can absolutely attest to their hard work and their dedication to being there. Of course we had high hopes for our equestrian team. As each of those bars dropped one by one we saw our medals drop away from us but it was great to see that New Zealand stood by our people as they went through that.I have to say that my favourite moment was to see as many people saw our Nikki Hamblin out there on the international stage stopping to take time to show her solidarity and true Olympic spirit. It has been picked up throughout the world; it resonates very very strongly internationally. We may yet pick up another medal of course—there is the Pierre de Coubertin medal which she is potentially going to be put forward for. That has only ever been given out 17 times in the entire history of the Olympic Games and if that medal is gained then that certainly would be of huge value to New Zealand and our history within the games.As I said and as has been mentioned we had 11 of the 18 medals achieved by females—the first time that has happened with New Zealand's involvement in the Olympic Games. Also to see a female majority competing in the Olympic team of around 200 people was great.I would just like to finish again in supporting the House and congratulating our Olympic heroes and heroines and also acknowledge the hard work that is still going on today with our Paralympians who will be taking to that stage on the 7th of next month. A thought to think about as we go into new sporting events and of course the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo is the people who paid and enabled this event to take place and who put our sportspeople on the international stage so that we can swell with national pride. We should have given them the ability to watch these games of national significance live and free to air as we once enjoyed in previous times gone by. We would like to see this House support that as it comes up in the future. It is affordable and I think if you ask the people and stay in touch with New Zealanders there is a huge desire for it.