07-11-2024 Breakfast Bites FIJI & PACIFIC SPORTS NEWS Podcast S11E33 #TeivovoSports #TeivovoDigital

Kia ora, Talofa lava, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 11 Episode 33 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 07 November 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the Blue continent, where it is a very nice 23 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
In Rugby Union: So all the big rugby union Tests this weekend sees: Scotland vs South Africa, Ireland vs All Blacks, Wales vs Fiji, England vs Australia, Italy vs Argentina, France vs Japan, Romania vs Tonga, while Lakapi Samoa appears to be lost at sea.
 
In Rugby League: Tonga Captain Jason Taumalolo was one of the first high profile stars to switch allegiance to his native homeland and now a sea of red are backing them to win the Pacific Championships final.
 
Taumaolo had played 10 Tests for New Zealand when in 2017 he chose to defect to Tonga and it opened the floodgates as Andrew Fifita, Siosiua Taukeiaho and a blaze of other stars followed.

Two years later in 2019 Tonga beat Australia for the first time ever and last week they beat Taumalolo’s former team, the NZ Kiwis to advance to the Pacific Championships final against the Kangaroos.

In Football: Key games from the UEFA Champions League today: Club Brugge vs Aston Villa, Shatkhar vs Young Boys, Bayern Munich vs Benfica, Paris vs Atleti, Inter vs Arsenal, Feyenoord vs Salsburg and Crvena Zvezda vs Barcelona.

And results from yesterday: PSV 4-0 Girona, Real Madrid 1-3 Milan, Liverpool 4-0 Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Storm Graz, Sporting CP 4-1 Man City, Lille 1-1 Juventus, Celtic 3-1 Leipzig and Bologna 0-1 Monaco.

In Combat Sports: Fading UFC star, Conor McGregor is in Court in Dublin, Ireland facing a charge of raping a woman in a hotel in December 2018.
The woman is claiming civil damages against Mr McGregor and another man.

In Sports Biz: The 2024 WTA Tour Final features the Top 8 Women’s tennis stars, a purse of US$15.25Million, and a minimum first-place prize of US$3.77M, more than any Grand Slam tournament this year.

But the event, in its first year of a three-year deal, to played in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is struggling to fill an arena with a capacity of just 5000. 

Sunday’s matches played at the King Saud University Indoor Arena, featuring World No. 2 Iga Świątek against 2024 Wimbledon Champion Barbora Krejčíková and a showdown of US stars, Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, only drew 400 fans, according to The Athletic. 

And that’s a wrap sports fans!

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