| Country | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Caledonia | 74 | 54 | 50 | |
| Papua New Guinea | 42 | 57 | 33 | |
| Samoa | 38 | 40 | 47 | |
| Fiji | 35 | 38 | 46 |
Papua New Guinea completed the first podium clean sweep of Samoa 2019 in the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase as they kick-started the athletics at the 2019 Pacific Games here in fine style.
The Cook Islands team at the 2019 Pacific Games have slammed "ill informed, baseless and simply scurrilous" media reports that said four swimmers were banned from the competition here on eligibility grounds, claiming that they withdrew voluntarily.
By Michael Pavitt and Matthew Smith in Apia
An athletes' lounge and breakout area has been set-up for those competing at the 2019 Pacific Games here as part of the "Voices of the Athletes" (VoA) programme launched by the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC).
The medal ceremony for the va'a women's V6 marathon event at the 2019 Pacific Games here was trumped by a marriage proposal to one of the athletes.
Tahiti’s Remi Rossi celebrated a hat-trick of gold medals on the final day of badminton action at the Samoa 2019 Pacific Games.
New Zealand transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard clinched two gold medals as weightlifting competition concluded here today, while a dramatic men’s over 109 kilograms event saw Tonga’s Aisake Tuitupou benefit from mistakes from his rivals.
New Caledonia rubber stamped their domination of swimming competition at Samoa 2019 by winning six of the nine gold medals on the final night of action here today.
Vanuatu have won the bronze medal in the women's cricket at the 2019 Pacific Games, having had to crowdfund their campaign due to a lack of official support.
Fiji claimed victories in two of the most hotly anticipated events of the 2019 Pacific Games - the men's and women's rugby sevens.
By Michael Pavitt and Matthew Smith in Apia
World junior weightlifting champion Don Opeloge lived up to expectations by winning triple gold in front of an expectant crowd today.
Three Pacific Games records fell in six races on the penultimate day of swimming competition, while hosts Samoa were able to add another gold medal to their tally.
A married couple from Fiji won three of the six archery medals available here today, including two golds, at the 2019 Pacific Games.
Australia claimed victory in the men’s beach volleyball at the 2019 Pacific Games – despite one player being “unable to jump or walk” – while Vanuatu won the women’s event in front of a packed crowd on Apia Waterfront.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
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At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Spyridon Louis won the marathon to become an instant Greek hero. Mike Rowbottom tells the story of how a humble water carrier entered sporting folklore, 125 years on.
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