Winter Paralympics Result Considered A Success

New Zealand Chef de Mission for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympic Games,
Jon Turnbull has a feeling of quiet satisfaction at the completion of the
event in the Canadian West Coast city.

The two Kiwi competitors finished with placings of gold medal, seventh and
eighth for Otago's Adam Hall and 20th and 25th for Auckland's Peter Williams
in his first Winter Paralympic Games.

"I'm certainly very happy with both the boys (Adam Hall and Peter Williams)
and the team as a whole we worked well together - all six of us on and off
the hill. There was some success and plenty of enjoyment too," says
Turnbull.

"We are going to celebrate the gold medal, debrief and enjoy Vancouver.
There's some decisions to make on how we go forward tactically as well as
physically. Adam has committed to Sochi (the next Winter Paralympics) in
some form or another and that is exciting news," says Turnbull.

For Williams in his first time at the Games Turnbull says there was plenty
of benefit having him in Vancouver and with a little more luck he could have
been in the hunt for medals.

"Peter has an understanding now of high performance and knows what it takes
to get to this level and beyond as well as what it will take to get to
Sochi. It would be good to see more Kiwi athletes attend the next Games, but
other nations are investing heavily and the depth is getting huge," says
Turnbull.