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Pacific
Prolonged drought impacting food, water across Micronesia
Extreme droughts in the Western Pacific region are expected to persist over the next three months.
Solomon Islands PM retains seat, vote counting continues
Solomon Islands’ pro-China Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his seat in the national election, according to local media reports, but it will take days to know if his party has won enough support to form the next government.
Cooks qualify
The Cook Islands national sevens rugby side have qualified for Wellington and Adelaide tournaments next year. This follows a credible showing at the 2010 Oceania Sevens Championships held in Darwin on October 1 and 2. On day one the Cooks beat Vanuatu 21-10 before losing to both Tonga (22-14) and Australia (19-7). On the second […]
Eels win first week of club sevens
The Eels emerged the stand-out winners of the club sevens opening shakedown on Saturday. In the first week of the CITC Rarotonga Club Sevens competition played at Avatiu Field, the Eels triumphed over the Dragons by 24-7 in the finals play-off. With the Eels leading at the halftime break by 12-nil, the Dragons stormed bad […]
Close encounters at corporate volleyball
There were a number of close games in the semifinals of the knockout rounds at the Vonnia’s Corporate mixed 6 on 6 volleyball league on Friday. The game between Vonnia’s Vikings and Airport Jetz was especially close with just one point the difference in the end with Vonnia’s winning 84-83. Another close encounter was between […]
Keg at harriers
Hash House Harriers tonight will be a farewell to the Washbourn family. Venue opposite Wigmore Super Store in Vaimaanga. We may have a beer keg if weather permits and would hate to find the need to empty a keg due to low attendance at hash! – On On
Tikipunga club visiting
The Tikipunga Football Club from Whangarei, New Zealand, arrived in Rarotonga last night for one week to play soccer matches and take a holiday. The visitors will play three matches, two, which are scheduled for: Monday October 4 at CIFA Complex – Under 16 Academy Boys at 5.00pm. Thursday October 7 at Matavera School – […]
Pumped!
Seventeen-year-old boxer Arama Jubilee (above) is still not fully aware of the magnitude of competing at the Commonwealth Games. He just wants to fight. He was only discovered as a boxer in late August some two and a half weeks before Team Cook Islands departed for India in late September. Jubilee was ‘discovered’ during the […]
Team Cook Islands amid the culture and colour of Delhi's Commonwealth Games
India’s cultures and colours were on full display on Sunday night for the spectacular Delhi Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Not only did the show go without a hitch – it kept an audience of 60,000 plus about 4000 athletes and officials enthralled. Team Cook Islands began preparing for the 7pm show at 3pm arriving by […]
Battle ready
Pool B in today’s CITC Rarotonga Club Sevens sees the Reds, Dragons and Bulls fight it out. The Reds sevens team will be coached by Travel Tou Jnr and they will look to the experienced Samoan duo of Silafi Tovio and Lua Tua for guidance – both players were involved in the recent CI sevens […]
NZ too strong
The Cook Islands women’s soccer side was defeated 10-0 by Oceania giants, and tournament favourites, New Zealand White Ferns in their second match at the OFC Women’s Nations Cup in Auckland. The match was played in windy and very wet conditions and New Zealand, who showed great tactical play, proved too strong for our girls. […]
7s side hopes to qualify
The Cook Islands national rugby sevens team, currently competing in the 2010 Oceania Sevens Tournament in Darwin, were hoping to beat Papua New Guinea last night to assure themselves of qualification for future international tournaments. On day one of the tournament on Friday (Thursday CI time) the Cooks defeated Vanuatu 21-10 but went down to […]
Big fields in 33rd week of running
After a week of running, local athletes can take a well earned rest and run their trainers through the washing machine. Eighty-eight runners took part in the Round Raro Road Race including about 28 local runners. Local girl Vanessa Palmer was the first woman home and American Greg Gustafson took out first place. The Round […]
Semis time at volleyball
Things will become clearer in the Vonnia’s corporate mixed 6 on 6 volleyball league after tonight’s games. The semifinals of the knockout games will be played tonight and should sort out the top sides. In Pool C the Airport High Flyers are favourites while in Pool B it is hard to predict but Team Telecom […]
New 7s format
This weekend’s CITC Rarotonga Club Sevens will see a new competition format introduced whereby for the next four weeks all teams will be ranked on a weekly basis. The following week’s draw will be determined by where teams finish each week. For Saturday’s games, teams have been ranked first to sixth based on results from […]
Record holder does the double
Greg Gustafson won the Nutter’s Coast to Coast Run on Wednesday night in a time of 54 minutes. Gustafson is a double winner after taking out the Round Raro Road Race on Saturday. He still retains the 45.19 record for the Nutter’s Run which he set 12 years ago. Gustafson, 55, said that his current […]
Lifting pair relish challenge
They may be the babies of Team Cook Islands but weightlifters Sirla Pera (18) and Luisa Peters (17) have no qualms about taking on the Commonwealth’s strongest athletes. The pair will make their Commonwealth Games debut in Delhi on October 8 and 9 and thanks to regular weightlifting meets they know what’s ahead come competition […]
Sokattak hosts Matavera
It will be an intriguing match-up today between Sokattak and Matavera as Sokattak powers up their spirits after losing to Tupapa last weekend. Sokattak will not have forgotten that surprise result and will be out to take some revenge. The recent history of matches between these sides suggests Sokattak is likely to walk away with […]
CI tackles Darwin 7s
The Cooks 7s team will participate in the 2010 Oceania 7s Tournament in Darwin, Australia on Friday and Saturday (today and tomorrow local time). The tournament will see eight participating teams but only six looking to qualify for the 2011 IRB 7s tournaments in Wellington, Hong Kong and Adelaide. Australia and Samoa have already qualified […]
Cooks score historic win
The Cook Islands national women’s soccer team have made history by defeating Tahiti for the first time in any soccer international match by one goal to nil in their first match at the Oceania Women’s Soccer Tournament being played at North Harbour, New Zealand. With the wind at their backs the Cooks dominated most of […]
Rough conditions tackled at paddling
Saturday’s condition for the 15km oe vaka race in the long distance race series was not for the faint hearted. The north easterly wind with sloppy choppy surf for most parts of the race put all 11 crews through their paces. Heading out of Avarua and heading east towards the turning point at Turangi saw […]
Katikati wins
Katikati College’s first XI soccer team registered a close win over the CIFA Academy team on Monday. Both teams held each other to a goal-less first half, however, both had scoring opportunities but could only find the fencing behind the goals. In the second Katikati scored, after miscommunication between the academy keeper and defenders, to […]
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