25-07-2024 Breakfast Bites FIJI & PACIFIC SPORTS NEWS Podcast S10E24 #TeivovoSports #TeivovoDigital

Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 24 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 25 July 2024, where it is 24 degrees Celsius and cloudy at 5am.
 
Happy birthday Malakai and happy birthday Sulueti.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby 7s in Paris Men’s Pool games: Samoa 14-21 Australia, France 12-12 USA and oh boy what a start by Fiji 40-12 Uruguay with Joji Nasova, Selestino Ravutaumada, Ioane Teba, Ponipate Loganimasi and Waisea Nacuqu all scoring.

New Zealand 40-12 Japan, Australia 21-7 Kenya, Samoa 12-28 Argentina and too hot to handle - Fiji 38-12 USA with New Zealand 17-5 South Africa wrapping up a great first day of the Olympic Games Rugby 7s.  
 
Overnight tonight: Samoa vs Kenya at midnight, Australia vs Argentina at 12.30am, Fiji vs France at 1.30am and New Zealand vs Ireland at 2.30am in their final pool games, with the Men’s quarter finals kicking off at 7am on Saturday morning Fiji time.

There will be a break on Saturday for the official opening of the Paris Olympics 2024, with the Men’s Rugby 7s semifinals at 1.30am on Sunday and the final will be at 5.45am.

Also at the Olympic Games today: There is Archery with Men’s and Women’s ranking rounds, Handball Women’s preliminary matches and also Football Women’s – 6 group stage games. 
 
In Rugby League: Australia and Papua New Guinea will host the 2026 Rugby League World Cup, which will see the number of competing nations in the Men’s tournament reduced from 16 to 10.

Australia, Samoa, New Zealand, England, Lebanon, Tonga, Fiji and Papua New Guinea have already qualified for the Men’s tournament after reaching the quarterfinals at the last World Cup.

The remaining two spots will be decided at the inaugural IRL World Series next year which will be contested by the Cook Islands, Jamaica, South Africa and the winner of the European qualifying tournament between France, Serbia, Wales and Ukraine.

In SportsBiz: Netflix’s latest earnings report shows the extent to which it is maintaining its industry dominance, with sports increasingly at the center of that position.

The company reported a total of 277.7 million subscribers, by far the largest fan base in the industry, up 3% on the prior quarter and up 16% from 238.4 million a year ago. 

Revenue grew 17% in the quarter to US$9.6Billion, while net income increased 44% to US$2.2B. 
In Football: Results from the Olympic Games Football Men’s group stage games – Spain 2-1 Uzbekistan, Argentina 1-2 Morocco, New Zealand 2-1 Guinea, Egypt 0-0 Dominican Republic, Iraq 1-1 Ukraine, Japan 2-0 Paraguay, France vs USA and Mali vs Israel underway.
 
In Combat Sports: Undefeated former UFC Lightweight World Champion King Khabib “The Eagle” Nurmagomedov, who retired from fighting in January of 2021 undefeated after 29 fights, reportedly owes Russia millions in unpaid taxes.

Bailiffs are now in the process of seizing Khabib’s properties and assets in Dagestan, including a US$900,000 fleet of luxury cars, including a Ferrari California T and Mercedes-Benz AMG GTS.
Which reminds me to pay . . . er never mind.

And that’s a wrap peeps!
 
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