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Quick minds and fast feet are not the only skills that will be on display when the Masters Games kick off this weekend in Dunedin.
Just over 3500 competitors have already signed up, ranging in age from a 94-year-old cyclist to a 20-year-old swimmer.
They would soon be facing off in sports ranging from traditional athletics to ballroom dancing and the popular jigsaw puzzle racing - which sold out on the first day.
Mosgiel resident Carole Evans got into cycling later in life, when she was about 50.
But the now-84-year-old was excited to compete in another Masters Games - her first was back in 1992 in Dunedin, and she has not missed one in the southern city
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