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Biggest indoor sport and aquatics centre in the country prepares to open

Biggest indoor sport and aquatics centre in the country prepares to open

Update: 2025-12-05
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Finishing touches are getting added to the country's biggest indoor sport and aquatics centre, which opens to the public in central Christchurch in less than a fortnight. The long-delayed $500 million building, Parakiore, has a 50-metre competition pool and five hydroslides, as well as nine sports courts and a High Performance Sport New Zealand training base. It replaces the much-missed QEII park facilities destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Anna Sargent reports.
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Biggest indoor sport and aquatics centre in the country prepares to open

Biggest indoor sport and aquatics centre in the country prepares to open