The Fiji Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee has launched a social networking campaign against its ban from next year's Commonwealth Games.
It will maintain pages on sites such as Twitter and Facebook, hoping to attract active followers - which will let it tell authorities about international support for Fiji's case.Fiji was suspended from the Commonwealth earlier this year for failing to hold elections. Sports bans were included in the sanctions.
Sports and Olympic Committee (FASANOC) vice-president, Atma Maharaj, told Radio Australia a petition will be used to lobby a Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Trinidad and Tobago later this month.
Social networking sites on the internet will be used to support the "Let Fiji Play" campaign.
Mr Maharaj said athletes had trained for four years to be part of the Commonweath Games.
"The athletes will be the only ones to be affected," he said.
Fiji Sport's position is that sport is a "developmental tool", and the Commonwealth should be supporting its own new games theme: "Serving the new generation."
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