Greetings from the other side of the world sports fans. After over a day travelling we stepped off the plane in Atlanta (USA's biggest airport for you trivia nuts) to be nearly knocked back by an intense wall of heat.

Hi everyone and it is certainly a little bit encouraging to know that we’re already one third of the way through winter – and it certainly looks like it’s going point out that it’s winter for real judging by the forecast for the rest of the week!

Big Southland sprinter Matt Archibald gave notice to his more illustrious teammates with victory in the international sprint series in the USA over the weekend.