Sports with Sam Ackerman

It's the start of a big week for the All Blacks, can they defend their Eden Park record having not lost a rugby test there since 1994. Sam continues to discuss rugby as Portia Woodman-Wickliffe sets the Rugby World Cup alight, and back home the Ranfurly Shield changes hands two weeks in a row. Ultramarathoner Ruth Croft makes history, and how will New Zealand's athletes go at the World Athletic Championships in Tokyo?

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