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.
Shalom Akao Waita, a former Solomon Islands basketball and netball international, has become the first female chief executive of a Pacific Games Organising Committee, now overseeing preparations for the 2023 Games.
Organisers of the 2022 Pacific Mini Games in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) have held their inaugural meeting in the capital Saipan.
Oceania is enjoying a 3x3 basketball boom after the sport made its debut at the Pacific Games in Samoa last year.
The Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Government have been praised for their commitment to hosting the Pacific Mini Games, even though the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to be postponed by a year until 2022.
A group of engineers from Indonesia have arrived in Honiara to help the Solomon Islands with its preparations for the 2023 Pacific Games.
An implementation agreement has been signed between the Solomon Islands Government and China that finally paves the way for construction to begin on venues and facilities for the 2023 Pacific Games.
New dates for the Pacific Mini Games which avoid a clash with the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics have been confirmed.
A new date of June in 2022 has been proposed for the Pacific Mini Games in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) following the decision to move it due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Indonesian state-owned construction enterprise PT Wijaya Karya (WIKA) has officially signed a multi-million-dollar contract to build a sports complex for the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands.
A controversial flight from China carrying a team to work on helping the Solomon Islands prepare for the 2023 Pacific Games has arrived in the capital Honiara as divisions have emerged over the new partnership between the two countries.
Two men have been killed in the Solomon Islands helping clear unexploded bombs from World War Two as part of the preparations for the 2023 Pacific Games.
Fiji has been named as the host of the 2021 International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Melanesia Cup, which will serve as a qualifier for the 2023 Pacific Games.
A new date for the Pacific Mini Games in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) still has to be identfied as uncertainty over the event continues because of COVID-19.
Coronavirus is beginning to lead to fears that it could affect the building of infrastructure of the 2023 Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands, even though it is one of only 10 countries yet to have recorded a single case of COVID-19.
Canadian show jumper Ian Millar holds the record for the most Olympic appearances by an athlete in any sport. When he competed at London 2012 at the age of 65 it was the tenth time he had competed in the Games since making his debut 30 years earlier at Munich 1972. He had won his only Olympic medal at Beijing 2008 when he was part of Canada’s team that took silver in the team jumping event. Millar won a gold medal in the Pan American Games team jumping event at Toronto 2015. He announced his retirement in 2019.
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The coronavirus pandemic forced a near global shutdown of sport across the world, but sports governing bodies have staged successful events despite the COVID-19 crisis. Mike Rowbottom speaks to those who have been able to do so.
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