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Solomon Islands national ‘weightlifting’ athletes carried out their first Oceania League competition in the country at Solomon Islands National Institute of Sport (SINIS) last Friday. ....
Pacific Games athletics champion Buala dies at 56 Tuesday, 19 January 2021 Papua New Guinea s athletics great Elanga Buala, who won three gold medals at the 1983 Pacific Games in Apia in Samoa, has died at the age of 56. She was confirmed dead at her home in Butibam in her home city of Lae. At the 1983 Pacific Games, Buala won a remarkable three gold medals in the 200 metres, 400m and the 4x400m relay as well as a silver in the 4x100m relay and a bronze in the 800m. She is regarded as one of the key people to help grow the participation of women in the sport in Papua New Guinea. ....
CANBERRA TO DECIDE FIJI S MINI SOUTH PACIFIC GAMES Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/27/2001 - 00:00 MELBOURNE, Australia (September 26, 2001 – Radio Australia) -Organizers of this December s Mini South Pacific Games on Norfolk Island are hoping to find out this week whether Fiji will attend the event. Norfolk Island is administered by Australia, which is yet to repeal a series of sanctions imposed on Fiji following last year s coup. Tom Lloyd of the Mini South Pacific Games Organizing Committee says Fiji has entered 121 athletes, but says their attendance will ultimately be decided by Australia s Department of Foreign Affairs. Our government here has written to foreign affairs asking them to give us a waiver to allow the Fijian athletes to come, Mr. Lloyd said. Our latest information was that the sports bans were still in place, but that we had the option as the organizers of the event to appeal direct to the Minister for a waiver of that. ....