{"id":18398,"date":"2021-02-18T08:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/uncategorized\/dedicated-team-challenge-wanaka-everybody-sat-around-the-television-and-was-like-yay\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:38:10","slug":"dedicated-team-challenge-wanaka-everybody-sat-around-the-television-and-was-like-yay","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.challenge-family.com\/challenge-family\/news\/dedicated-team-challenge-wanaka-everybody-sat-around-the-television-and-was-like-yay\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedicated team Challenge Wanaka: &#8216;Everybody sat around the television and was like yay&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While months of hard work have gone into making the Integrity Homes <\/span><b><i>CHALLENGE<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WANAKA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> possible, the past few days have been tense. A small COVID-19 outbreak in Auckland, about 1500 kilometers away, forced the New-Zealand government to lock down part of the country. <\/span><b><i>CHALLENGE<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WANAKA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;s team remained positive, worked very hard and the relief was huge when it finally appeared that racing was allowed again. &#8220;At 4:30 last night, we were waiting for the government&#8217;s decision. Everybody on our team sat around the television and was like &#8216;yay&#8217;!&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It&#8217;s <\/span><b><i>CHALLENGE<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WANAKA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Race Director Bill Roxburgh speaking. &#8220;We were having COVID-19 sort of put upon us up in Auckland Sunday evening and we didn&#8217;t know what was going on pretty much for a couple of days. Thankfully we came out of that yesterday.&#8221; While <\/span><b><i>CHALLENGE<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WANAKA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is running for some days already, having popular side events going on, excitement is growing for next Saturday &#8211; local time &#8211; when the Middle Distance is scheduled. &#8220;We could have put off the pin quite easily, but everybody on our team is very keen to run the event and we&#8217;re pretty committed to it. During this week and way before, our staff of around twenty people just got on and did their job. The team morale was pretty, pretty good.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roxburgh is quite thankful for all the help his team received recently. &#8220;The support we&#8217;ve had from all around the country to run this event was unreal. We made the news, because of what we are doing. 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