<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>10:50 will go to germany in a fortnight's time just eighteen points behind the driver's championship leader ayrton senna kiwi golfer greg turner has qualified comfortably to play <&>11:00 in this week's british open turner produced a solid one under par seventy in treacherous conditions at southport to finish second top qualifier in his section he joins fellow touring pro frank nobilo in the open field after nobilo qualified automatically because of his top forty european ranking after just one practice round u s open golf champion payne stewart has given the thumbs up to the royal birkdale course the venue for the open the players have been greeted with gale force winds and rain so far this week but stewart says the course and the difficult conditions are to his liking <&>11:36 <&>section not transcribed <&>11:48 stewart says if the conditions stay the same then an even par score could be a winning one <,> kiwi rugby league coach bob bailey says they've lost nothing by moving dave watson into <&>12:00 standoff for the second test against the aussies bailey says watson was one of the best at standoff in the british competition and he'll play his heart out <&>12:08 <&>section not transcribed <&>12:20 and bailey says that's another reason why they're not worried that mark guy has been brought into the aussie line up <,> aussie phil anderson won this morning's tenth stage of the tour de france but the big story today on the world's greatest cycle race was the mystery virus that hit the p d m team greg lamont is the leader the dutch man eric bukink dropped to third overall with four of his team from the b d p team having to <.>dr withdraw from the race through illness the all blacks arrive home from argentina tomorrow with thoughts turning very quickly to the bledisloe cup series with australia all black selector john hart says a tough couple of tests are looming and he's picking the team for the world cup and it won't be far away <&>13:00 <&>section not transcribed <&>13:13 hart says there's no doubt in his mind that australia will be their biggest threat to the all blacks holding on to the trophy the north otago rugby team's first match of the season against otago subunions in ranfurly tomorrow has been cancelled because of the ground conditions in central otago most grounds in central otago are <.>u unplayable and that's due to the severe cold snap and it wasn't possible to transfer the match to oamaru because of the distance many of the sub union players would have to travel <,> palmerston north's byron reid has become new zealand's top rated breast stroke swimmer in recording the sixth fastest time in his event at the world student games in sheffield reid finished third in the b final in one minute four point nine seconds in a time that would have given him sixth place in the <&>14:00 main final <,> in addition new zealand has had early success in the men's tennis with glen wilson thrashing his uganda opponent and andrew baitney gets a bye in the second round world women's tennis number one monica seles will be under pressure to explain her absence from wimbledon in the next week seles is due to return to top tennis either in new jersey later this week or at the federation cup in england next week seles was fined for pulling out of wimbledon without a satisfactory explanation leading to speculation that she was badly injured burnt out or even pregnant <,> and that is sport <&>14:36 <&>end of sample