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Flying Fijians plot surprise win

The FMF Flying Fijians insist that beating Australia is not impossible as they plot a surprise win against the Wallabies. Fiji is second in Pool B with 10 points from their two games and ahead of Wales who they will fac

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Team Fiji to honour all athletes

Team Fiji will tomorrow honour all the athletes and officials that took part in the Pacific Games in Samoa. They were happy with the outstanding performance of the athletes and together with the Ministry of Youth and Sp

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FSC stands by Directors statement

The Fiji Sports Council stands by the statement made by the Fiji Sports Council Executive Chairman, Tom Ricketts, that an agreement was made by the FSC and Fiji FA to have the Courts Homecentres IDC at the Post Fiji stad

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Tabua to field team B

The FMF Flying Fijians management is considering fielding their B team in their World Cup match against Australia to save their best players for the game against Wales. Coach Ilivasi Tabua said the main reason is becaus

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Womens basketball team out to create history

The Fiji women’s basketball team for the first time in their history will compete in the Oceania qualifying tournament for a place in next year's Olympics in Beijing. They will play against New Zealand and Aus

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FSC responds to FFA decision

The Fiji Sports Council has responded to the decision made by the Fiji FA in shifting the annual Inter-district competition from Suva to Ba. Speaking to Village sports, Fiji Sports Council Board Chairman, Tom Ricketts s

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No place for Rupeni Caucau in FMF Flying Fijians

The FMF Flying Fijians management has once again confirmed that there is no plan in place to bring in Bua lad and Agen based Rupeni Caucau into the FMF Flying Fijians camp. There have been rumors that Caucau has been ad

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Interim PM calls on Flying Fijians to target RWC finals

Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama has called on the FMF Flying Fijian 15's rugby team to aim high and target the finals of the Rugby World Cup in France. Speaking to Village Sports after playing tou

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Nadi rugby confident to win Sanyo Cup

The Nadi Rugby team who are undefeated so far, have only one game remaining and are confident of being crowned the new Sanyo Cup champions on Saturday afternoon. Speaking to Village sports, Nadi Coach, Iliesa Tanivula s

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Flying Fijians have nothing to lose-Tabua

FMF Flying Fijians Coach Ilivasi Tabua said his team has nothing to lose against Australia and Wales where one more win can put them in the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time since 1987. Fiji survived a nervous

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IDC to be played in Ba

The 2007 Courts Homecentres IDC will now be played in Ba instead of Suva. This was confirmed by Fiji FA chief executive Bob Kumar, who said the Post Fiji stadium is booked for a Church conference in November. Kumar sai

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Bilibili race heats up

Most of the teams coming into the Bilibili race this year have only one aim in mind, and that is to dethrone the champions, Warwick Fiji. The organisers of the competition have decided to increase the number of events t

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Flying Fijians improve in IRB World Ranks

The FMF Flying Fijians has jumped to 11th place on the latest IRB World rankings. They now have 73.07 rating points after beating Japan and Canada in the Rugby World Cup so far. Fiji is likely to go further up on the ra

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Flying Fijians improve in IRB World rankings

The FMF Flying Fijians have jumped to 11th place on the latest IRB World rankings. They now have 73.07 rating points after beating Japan and Canada in the Rugby World Cup so far. Fiji is likely to go further up on the

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Davu names 2 new caps

National netball coach, Vilimaina Davu has named two new caps in her 16 member squad for the World Netball Championship in New Zealand. Joining the squad are Queensland's Marjorie Par and New South Wales based Simon

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Flying Fijians heading in right direction-Rauluni

The FMF Flying Fijians captain Mosese Rauluni believes they are heading in the right direction after winning their second pool match over Canada by 29 - 16. Rauluni says while they still expect critics to come down hard

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Tonga upsets Samoa in the RWC

Tonga shocked Pacific Island neighbours Samoa to throw the race in the World Cup for second place in Pool A wide open. They defeated Samoa by 19 points to 15 this morning. Four penalties from Gavin Williams to two from

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Tonga upsets Samoa in the RWC

Tonga shocked Pacific Island neighbours Samoa to throw the race in the World Cup for second place in Pool A wide open. They defeated Samoa by 19 points to 15 this morning. Four penalties from Gavin Williams to two from

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Rewa goes down to Lautoka

The Rewa soccer team will play in the bottom four competitions in the National soccer league competition after going down 1-3 to Lautoka yesterday. Association president Faiyaz Ali said the officials should be blamed fo

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Slim chance for Vijay Singh

Golfer Vijay Singh stands a slim chance of winning The Tour Championship title going into the final round today. Singh has so far played quite well shooting 68, 68 and 65 in the first three rounds. But he is 10 shots b

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