Tahiti will be “difficult to beat” in the race to stage the 2023 Pacific Games, it was claimed after the country formally expressed an interest in hosting the event at the Pacific Games Council (PGC) General Assembly here today.
Finalists New Zealand have been thrown out of the Pacific Games Olympic qualifying event here in Port Moresby after the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Disciplinary Committee ruled a player from the under-23 squad was ineligible to compete.
By Daniel Etchells and Liam Morgan in Port Moresby
New Caledonia’s Lara Grangeon put disqualification in the women’s 200 metres backstroke event behind her to win a further two gold medals to take her overall Pacific Games tally to 11 here.
Fiji’s women claimed their fourth Pacific Games basketball title as they denied American Samoa their first Port Moresby 2015 gold medal with a comfortable 75-61 victory here today.
Cook Islands built on their maiden Port Moresby 2015 crown by adding double sailing gold to their overall medal tally as four nations bagged two titles on the busiest day of action at this year’s Pacific Games here today.
By Daniel Etchells and Liam Morgan in Port Moresby
By Daniel Etchells and Liam Morgan in Port Moresby
Tahiti completed a clean sweep of table tennis gold medals at the Pacific Games here as Alize Belrose and Melveen Richmond claimed the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively.
Telupe Iosefa etched his name into the history books as he became Tuvalu's first-ever Pacific Games gold medallist with victory in the men's 120 kilograms powerlifting event.
New Caledonia’s Lara Grangeon was again the star performer as she extended her Port Moresby gold medal tally to nine with a hat-trick, while home favourite Ryan Pini added a further two titles to his collection in Pacific Games record times at the Taurama Aquatic Centre today.
Favourites Fiji claimed double Pacific Games rugby sevens gold in contrasting styles as the men breezed to a dominant win over Samoa, while their women were made to work hard for a narrow victory in their clash with Australia on a thrilling night of action here.
By Daniel Etchells and Liam Morgan in Port Moresby
Pacific Games history was made in shooting today as three competitors pulled the trigger on perfect scores in the single rise event at June Valley Shooting Range.
Papua New Guinea claimed seven gold medals on the opening day of the Pacific Games powerlifting competition here, while Nauru took the other two available.
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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