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Australia T20 skipper Finch retires from internationals
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia T20 captain Aaron Finch announced his retirement from internationals on Tuesday, drawing a line under a career that yielded more than 8,000 runs across formats. A hard-hitting opening batsman and limited...
‘Sports can keep you healthy and engaged’
Sports can help youth to be healthy and socially engaged, said Minister for Youth and Sports Jese Saukuru in Ba last week. This was part of his message to Magodro Youth Club members at Bukuya Village during a week-long sports accredited training. Mr Saukuru said Government was committed to develop a productive and healthy nation...
Liku hails Just Play
The Just Play program has seen the progress of its volunteers to the national level. Fiji Football Association Just Play manager Filomena Liku said it started in 2009 they had been grooming and developing young children. She said it was good to see women taking part. In having equal participation on the sporting field, she...
Australia strengthens sports partnership
Sports programs under Team Up Fiji have benefited from the help provided by the Australian Government in promoting community development. Australia has extended its support for the development of sports programs compromising more than 30 partnerships across Asia- Pacific. The Australian High Commission Charge d’ Affaires to Fiji John Williams said he was delighted Australia...
LeBron James returns to Los Angeles with history in his grasp
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lakers forward LeBron James returns to Los Angeles on the verge of becoming the NBA’s all-time leading scorer after wrapping up a five-game road trip in New Orleans on Saturday night. ‘King James’ now needs just 36 points to pass fellow Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record 38,387 career points after contributing...
6th February
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy urges Olympic sponsors to keep Russia out of Games
LVIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has sent letters to companies that back the International Olympic Committee urging them to keep Russian athletes out of the Paris Olympic Games, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. Zelenskiy has been spearheading a drive to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in the games under a neutral flag. Zelenskiy...
Suva eyes Vanua crowns
After dominating the Hot Bread Kitchen Vulaca volleyball competition over the weekend, champion Suva volleyball teams have set its eyes on the Vanua and Eastern Championship. Suva won both the men’s and women’s title as the hosts sides cements its position as the local volleyball powerhouse after former men’s champion Raiwai bowed out in the...
Basketball Fiji adopts serious approach
The basketball season begins preparations for the Fiji Cup and Pacific Games. Fiji assistant coach William Peter said they had separated the competition in to four tournaments and Central Basketball Association challenge was the second of the four series. “This is to give an opportunity to all the teams to play against each other constantly...
Cricket Fiji prepares for PICC23
Fiji has selected their squad for the Pacific Island Cricket Challenge 2023 (PICC23). Chief executive officer Sitiveni Rokoro said Cricket Fiji would co-host the inaugural Pacific Island Cricket Challenge 2023 with the Australian Defence Force Cricket from March 6–18. “Five men and five women’s teams will participate in this one-week tournament,” he said. “Participating countries...
WTA roundup: Alycia Parks, Lin Zhu win first singles titles
Alycia Parks won her first WTA singles title, defeating No. 1 seed Caroline Garcia 7-6 (7), 7-5 at the Open 6eme Sens Metropole on Sunday in Lyon, France. It was the first victory over a top 5 player for Parks, a 22-year-old native of Georgia, who put on a display of power with 15 aces....
3rd February
Cricket-Women’s cricket awaits birth of a superpower with game set to take off in India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Women’s cricket looks poised to step out of the imposing shadow of the men’s game in India, and the rest of the world is bracing for the birth of a superpower in the sport. While male players have long enjoyed rock star status in the cricket-mad country, their female counterparts have...
2nd February
Cricket-Australia’s Khawaja flies out to India after visa approved
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia opener Usman Khawaja will join his test team mates in India later on Thursday following a delayed approval of his visa, Cricket Australia said. Pakistan-born Khawaja, named Australia’s test player of the year this week, was the only member of the squad unable to travel and missed a flight on Wednesday...
Olympics-Paris 2024 organisers will abide to IOC decision on Russia’s participation
PARIS (Reuters) – Paris 2024 organisers insisted they would abide by the International Olympic Committee’s decision on Russian and Belarusian athletes’ participation in the Games after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the governing body into banning them from the sport’s extravaganza. Last week, the IOC said the Olympic Council of Asia had offered Russian and...
Ukraine on mission to ban Russia from Olympics, IOC says sanctions stand
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine hopes to secure widespread international support for banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paris Olympics in 2024 due to Moscow’s invasion, the sports minister said on Tuesday. Vadym Huttsait, 51, a former Olympic fencing champion, told Reuters the idea of allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals was unacceptable....
1st February
Tennis-Djokovic played Australian Open with 3cm tear in hamstring, says Tiley
(Reuters) – Novak Djokovic played with a three-centimetre (1.2 inches) tear in his hamstring during his run to a record-extending 10th Australian Open title, tournament director Craig Tiley said on Wednesday. The Serbian, who suffered the hamstring injury en route to winning the warm-up title in Adelaide, won the season-opening major after beating Stefanos Tsitsipas...
Fiji Finals: May date confirmed
The 2023 Coca-Cola Games will be held on May 11 to 13 during the term one school holidays, Fiji Secondary Schools Athletics Association secretary Vuli Waqa says. Term one holidays will be from May 6 to 21, . The games will be held at the HFC Bank Stadium during the first week of the school...
National federations urged to keep to timelines
Team Fiji chef de mission to the 2023 Pacific Games Ajay Ballu is urging national federations to keep to timelines set by Team Fiji after their return from the chef de missions meeting in the Solomon Islands last year. “We appeal to national federations hoping to participate at the games to pay their bond, levies...
