by Ryland JAMES Agence France Presse Masterton, New Zealand (AFP) In New Zealand’s close-knit shearing community, Joel Henare is regarded as a Lionel Messi, Tiger Woods or Jonah Lomu — a G.O.A.T in the sheep sheds. Now 31, he first stepped into the bright lights of competitive shearing at the lambkin age of 12. Henare has since notched 132 competition victories in wool handling — the high-speed art of separating off-cuts from a sheared fleece. […]