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4 <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Wednesday <strong>April</strong> 6 <strong>2022</strong><br />
4<br />
NEWS<br />
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An average day for Amelia<br />
means waking up early for her<br />
favourite meal, porridge, then<br />
heading off to Avonside Girls<br />
High School.<br />
She tries to eat as much as she<br />
can throughout the day for the<br />
much needed energy necessary<br />
to train after school. Carbs are<br />
a must.<br />
“If you’re in sport like me, it<br />
pays to really like eating food<br />
and the right food,” Amelia<br />
said.<br />
After school, five days a week,<br />
she trains for between one hour<br />
to four hours, depending on<br />
what race she has coming up.<br />
She also trains on the<br />
weekend, usually giving herself<br />
one day of rest.<br />
“I do find it really hard and<br />
sometimes quite draining,<br />
getting home from school and<br />
training can be exhausting but<br />
I think I manage it okay. I have<br />
good support from family, my<br />
coach and friends,” Amelia said.<br />
She first got into cycling five<br />
years ago when her father, Julian<br />
Sykes, introduced the sport to<br />
her.<br />
“He took me down to the<br />
track cycling one day and I just<br />
fell in love with it from there,”<br />
she said.<br />
Amelia has always been into<br />
more extreme sports. Before<br />
cycling she was an ice speed<br />
skater.<br />
Elyse Fraser has coached<br />
her for four years now. Amelia<br />
said she looks to Fraser for<br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
‘I would like to go as far as I can’<br />
SUCCESS:<br />
Amelia Sykes<br />
won gold in four<br />
races and silver<br />
in three at the<br />
New Zealand<br />
track nationals<br />
in Cambridge.<br />
inspiration.<br />
“She understands me as a<br />
person, she’s also done all the<br />
races before, she’s a very good<br />
coach,” Amelia said.<br />
She has big plans for her<br />
future in cycling. She hopes<br />
to start with racing in the<br />
junior track cycling world<br />
championships in Israel this<br />
year.<br />
“I would like to go as far as<br />
I can, whether that’s the world<br />
champs, the Olympics or the<br />
Commonwealth Games,” she<br />
said.<br />
Having big goals like this<br />
means life as a 17-year-old looks<br />
a little different for Amelia who<br />
still tries to keep as much of a<br />
social life as she can.<br />
“I do miss out on parties but I<br />
don’t find that a bad thing. I’m<br />
not interested in partying and<br />
drinking I would rather focus<br />
on my sport and have my set<br />
goals.<br />
“I’m happy to just be in<br />
everyone’s company and not<br />
have to drink just to fit in with<br />
everyone else like I’m pretty<br />
happy to be who I am and doing<br />
my thing but still be social with<br />
everyone else,” she said.<br />
While she has a strong focus<br />
on her goals, Amelia also makes<br />
sure to enjoy being young.<br />
“There is a time to be serious<br />
about it but there’s also a time<br />
to just realise that you’re young<br />
and to enjoy it for what it is,” she<br />
said.<br />
“It is hard being in this sport<br />
but it’s very rewarding.’’<br />
Funding<br />
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Teale-Russ’s phone and wallet<br />
were hidden in the car boot and<br />
were stolen along with many other<br />
items.<br />
Despair became worse an hour<br />
later, when she rang the bank and<br />
discovered the thieves had also<br />
ransacked her account.<br />
“I thought I would only have to<br />
cancel my card and then my luck<br />
would return but they informed<br />
me that my internet banking<br />
passcode had been changed 15<br />
minutes prior to this call and<br />
thousands of dollars from your<br />
savings account have been transferred<br />
into your main account,”<br />
she explained.<br />
“They then proceeded to tell me<br />
that several thousands of dollars<br />
had been withdrawn from ATM<br />
machines.”<br />
Teale-Russ said she is shocked<br />
the thieves transferred large<br />
amounts of money, changed her<br />
online banking password and<br />
the pin number of her debit card,<br />
without raising alarm.<br />
“There seemed to be no red flags<br />
in the ANZ department. I didn’t<br />
receive an email notification,<br />
and if I received a call or text it<br />
wouldn’t have mattered because<br />
my phone was stolen.<br />
“You’d think any sudden<br />
withdrawal of $1000 cash from<br />
an ATM would spark some kind<br />
of concern from the bank,” Teale-<br />
Russ said.<br />
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