22 Mar 2012

Short turnaround for New Zealand Olympic hopefuls

1:13 pm on 22 March 2012

The Oly Whites will have to play three games in five days to qualify for the London Olympics and stand-in skipper Greg Draper says it's time they started getting familiar with short turn-arounds between matches.

The New Zealanders crushed Tonga 10-0 Wednesday to book their place in the semi-finals of the Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament and face Vanuatu in their final four clash on Friday.

Draper says playing so many games in such a short amount of time will be a challenge for the Oly Whites, but he says it's something they need to get used to.