06-08-2024 Breakfast Bites FIJI & PACIFIC SPORTS NEWS Podcast S10E36 #TeivovoSports #TeivovoDigital

Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 36 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 06 August 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent, where it is cloudy and a south pole freezing 18 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
And at the Paris Olympic Games; German Olympic cycling star, Nils Politt stopped mid-race to rush into a packed pub and use the toilet to relieve himself, halfway through the 280Km Men’s road race.
 
Thousands of fans roared on with delight as the relieved Politt got back into the race.

And there are 17 gold medal events in Paris today in:
·       Artistic gymnastics: Women’s floor finals so another gold for Super Simone!
·       Athletics (track and field): Men’s pole vault final; Women’s 5000m final and the Women’s 800m final
·       Badminton: Women’s & Men’s singles medal matches
·       Basketball 3X3: Men’s & Women’s medal finals
·       Canoe slalom: Men’s & Women’s kayak cross finals
·       Shooting: Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol finals and the Mixed team skeet finals
·       Track cycling: Women’s team sprint medal finals
·       Triathlon: Mixed team relay final

Paris Olympic Games Women’s basketball quarterfinals tomorrow – Serbia vs Australia, Spain vs Belgium, Germany vs France and Nigeria vs USA.

And the Men’s quarterfinals tonight – Germany vs Greece, Serbia vs Australia, France vs Canada and USA vs Brazil.

In Rugby League: Tongan enforcer Stefano Utoikamanu can hold his head up high for his dignified response to booing Wests Tigers fans in the wake of the young prop’s decision to inform the Tigers he’ll be leaving at season’s end.
 
For the booing to continue every time he ran the ball for the entire match against the Cowboys was childish and the fans involved should be ashamed of themselves.

In the Paris Olympic Games Football Men’s Semifinals: Morocco 1-2 Spain and France vs Egypt still to play today.
 
In the Women’s Semifinals tomorrow: USA vs Germany and Brazil vs Spain.
 
In Boxing: The Algerian boxer at the centre of the Paris Olympic Games gender eligibility row has accused those opposed to her presence at the Games of being bullies as the Russian head of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlev, launched a fresh barrage of criticism at a chaotic press conference.

Imane Khelif, who is assured of at least a bronze medal ahead of her next bout tonight, said she hoped that a gold medal would come out of the pain she had endured over the past week.

“I send a message to all the people of the world to uphold the Olympic principles and the Olympic Charter, to refrain from bullying all athletes, because this has effects, massive effects,” Khelif said.

“It can destroy people, it can kill people’s thoughts, spirit and mind. It can divide people. And because of that, I ask them to refrain from bullying.”

Khelif, a welterweight, and Lin Yu-ting, a featherweight from Taiwan, who is also assured of a bronze, are competing in Paris despite the IBA claiming that they failed to meet their gender eligibility rules last year.

The IOC has described the tests undertaken on Khelif and Lin by the IBA as lacking credibility.
And that’s a wrap!
 
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