Future athletics stars on Hamilton track
There were 11 members of the extended Sinclair family competing at the Colgate Games in Hamilton.
The annual event was in full swing on Friday, when Stuff visited.
Among the 1400 kids were 11 from the Sinclair family.
"I have got five running," said dad Craig Sinclair, from Tauwhare, who was keeping a watchful eye on events from his fold-out chair in the shade of a gazebo. "My sister has two who she brought over from Newcastle in Australia, and my other sister has brought four with her, up from Karori in Wellington.
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