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Podcast: The All Sport Breakfast
Episode: D'Arcy Waldegrave: If that doesn't lift NZ into the heart of the World Cup, nothing will
Description: There is a face of this World Cup. Burnt into my conscience. It’s the face of Hannah Wilkinson as she drank in the atmosphere before kick off against Norway. Standing with her teammates, waiting to walk on to her field of dreams. The stone-cold determination. The laser focus. The will. Watching her face sent chills through me. On the pitch, during the anthem, flanked by the women charged with lighting the touch paper for arguably the biggest sporting event in NZ’s history, every fibre of her being, every twitch and expr...