Fijian swimmer Meli Malani broke the national men’s 50 metre breaststroke record during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Competing in the fourth heat, he clocked 29.87 seconds. Malani eclipsed the national record of 30.36s seconds which he set in May. He was happy to set a national record. His time was only 0.7s from…
Dika Toua’s Silver medal performance has earned her K50, 000 (US$20, 499) as the Government’s incentive for team PNG to the Commonwealth Games. Papua New Guineans around the globe are still heaping praise on the veteran weightlifter from Hanuabada village in Port Moresby. Dika snatched Silver medal in the women’s 53kg, lifting 82kg in the…
Former world number one golfer Vijay Singh is in contention to represent the nation at the 2016 Rio Olympics where the sport returns for the first time in more than a century. Golf was last played at the third Olympiad in Saint Louis, the US in 1904. The first Olympic Golf Rankings was released last…
A weightlifter from Papua New Guinea has denied an allegation of sexual assult that led to him being detained by police in Glasgow but still allowed to compete in the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. Toua Udia, 22, who lifted in the men’s 77kg category at the Clyde Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, reportedly spent the night…
New Zealand’s golden reign at the Commonwealth Games is over after they were toppled 17-12 by South Africa in the final yesterday. Three unanswered tries to the Blitzbokke through the game’s middle stages proved decisive against a New Zealand side who slumped to their knees when the full-time whistle sounded.faster South African side scored three…
FBC SPORTS —The 2002 Commonwealth Games gold medalist Nacanieli Takayawa says Team Fiji should not lose sight of their goals when competing in their various events. Takayawa departed with the first batch of athletes for the games in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday and will serve as an official for Fiji’s lone judoka, Josateki Naulu. Takayawa…
THE Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Sports Committee has resolved that they would finalise what they have discussed in the meeting in Port Moresby last weekend in their next meeting in May, next year. Vanautu-based MSG Programme Manager Barbra Age said all the issues on the agenda were discussed and will be finalised in their next…
oceaniafootball.com sat down with former All White and most capped New Zealand player Ivan Vicelich to discover more about his passion for the World Cup and his experiences as a player and a spectator. The biggest sporting event in world, the FIFA World Cup™ starts in less than a day, what do the two words…
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has suggested that football could one day be played on other planets when he made his opening address to delegates at the start of its 64th Congress on Wednesday. Making his opening remarks to delegates from all of FIFA’s 209 member nations, before his presidential address later in the day, he…
Following the budget approval by FIFA’s 64th Ordinary Congress in São Paulo, world football’s governing body is set to invest USD 900 million in football development during the cycle 2015 – 2018. FIFA.com looks at some of the most remarkable figures behind FIFA’s daily development work and the key priorities for the next cycle. 800,000,000…