"Set your priorities right".
This is the message from FASANOC President, Vidya Lakhan to National Federations that have outstanding levies for athletes that are preparing for the Pacific Games in Noumea.
Lakhan said some of the teams with outstanding levies are opting to travel abroad instead of paying up.
Fiji will be represented in 27 sports at the Pacific Games with a total of 450 athletes, a decrease of 100 athletes from the last Pacific Games in 2007 in Samoa.
Lakhan added that it will take them $1.5million to get the team across, of which they have handed in their submission requesting $500,000 from Government, which is now with the Finance Ministry, the National Federations give $470,000 while the rest is covered by FASANOC.
The 2011 Pacific Games kicks off in Noumea on August 27.
Story by: Selina Navuso
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