Football Comes Alive In Savaii
The Football Federation Samoa (FFS) is currently conducting a junior coaching course on the big island of Savaii.
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Samoa wins 5 of the 7 regional sports awards
Today at the PGC AGM in New Caledonia Samoa won 5 of the total 7 2009/2010 regional sport awards.
Best junior female of the year - Margaret Satupai - Ahtletics Samoa (2nd World Junior Aths champ in Shot put )
Best female athlete - Ele Opeloge (Weightlifting)
Best male athlete - Mikaele Pesamino (IRB player of the year, Rugby)
Best coach of the year - Stephen Betham (Rugby 7s)
Team of the year (Rugby 7s World Championships)
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Samoa wins Commonwealth Youth Games 2015
Samoa via the Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee has secured the rights to host the 2015 Commonwealth Youth Games.
The Commonwealth Games Federation’s 71 member nations and territories awarded the Games to Samoa at its recent General
Assembly held in The Gambia.
In announcing the decision, CGF President, Mike Fennell, said he was delighted to see the Youth Games heading to the small nation of around 180,000 people.
“It is an important part of our ethos that all member countries and territories have the opportunity of hosting events,” Mr Fennell said. “Not everyone can host the Commonwealth Games, but we firmly believe that smaller nations should look to host our Youth Games.”
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South Pacific Bodybuilding Champs 2008 in Samoa
The 10th Annual South Pacific Bodybuilding Championships 2008 will be held at Gymnasium #1, Faleata, SAMOA on SATURDAY 4th October 2008 at 730pm...
Corporate tickets are available for ST$50
General seating is available for ST$10 and ST$20 at the door.
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Mose Faatamala: Samoa’s Paralympian for Beijing‘08
Article by Elizabeth Bell, MESC
The 2008 Olympic Games may have been over for a few weeks now, but the venues were in full use as the 13th Paralympic Games were underway, September 6th -17th.
Mose Faatamala was Samoa’s only athlete to qualify for the 2008 Games during the Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia in 2007.
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Meet your Athletes for the CYG 2008
The 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games will be held in Pune, India, from the 12th to 18th October 2008. Over 1,300 athletes and 350 officials from 71 countries will participate in these Games.
SASNOC has confirmed entries in four of the nine sports on offer with many young medalists entered from the 2007 South Pacific Games.
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A busy day for Team Samoa
Today two of our athletes competed, Serafina Akeli in the Women's Javelin, and Rudolf Berking-Williams was back on the water today with the second of his flat water kayaking events in the K1 500m.
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Rudolf makes the Semi-finals in K1 1000m
Today Rudolf Berking-Williams raced in Heat 3 of the K1 1000m Men's FlatWater Kayaking taking a place in the semifinals on Wednesday afternoon, the 20th of August.
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Ele makes History for SAMOA
Last night Ele OPELOGE, Samoa’s and Oceania’s Number One Weightlifter competed in the Women’s 75kg+ Weightlifting against 11 other competitorsfrom 10 Olympic Nations gaining 4th place, best performance of an athlete representing Samoan in Olympic history!
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Ele will be lifting at 7pm tonight (midnight in Samoa)in the women's 75kg+
weightlifting category.
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Mua'ausa competition complete
At 5:30pm last night Samoan archer Mua'ausa Joseph WALTER competed against Juan Rene SERRANO of Mexico in the Individual Men's Recurve in the 1/32 Eliminations at the Olympic Green Archery Field.
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Youth Ambassadors vist OLV
Despite the drizzly weather today, this morning our two Youth Ambassadors, who were selected to participate at the 2008 Olympic Youth Camp, Luana Milroy & Andrew Ah Liki visited the Olympic Village (OLV).
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Tavui is OK after KO
At just after 9pm tonight, out light heavy weight (81kg) Farani TAVUI had
his first fight against Boxing World Championship silver medallist (2005),
Marijo SIVOLIJA-JELICA of Croatia.
The result has not what we were hoping for as he lost in the third round by a knock out.
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Competition Schedule for Oceania Athletes
There are 66 athletes from the Oceania region competing in the 2008 Beijing Olympics not including the "big guns"; Australia & NZ!
Click on more to see the schedule....
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Oceania Welcome Ceremony
This morning from 11am - 1pm an Oceania Welcome Reception was planned to bring together the 15 island nations, and introduce each team announcing their flag bearer. Ele Opeloge was chosen to play this role for behalf of Samoa, much to the delight of our entire team.
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In Beijing: Monday 4th August 2008
After two beautiful days of shining sun, and vibrant blue sky we awoke
this morning to a grey sky and red coloured sun, pollution perhaps? Thesun is up at around 430am every morning so many of the team are stillwaking early to start their first training sessions of the day before
breakfast.
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In Beijing: Sunday 3rd August 2008
Well, after an afternoon of training, familiarizing with the village, dinner and team meeting, Team Samoa retired early. Of course not before heading over to the Australian compound to watch the All Blacks vs Wallabies Tri Nations match with members from the NZ Olympic team.
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China is ready!
The venues are impeccable. They are bright and colorful and the final preparations are being made. China is ready!
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Support Floods in for Samoa’s 2008 Olympic Team
During the last month, more than 170 local businesses and organisations in Samoa were sent personal invitations to enter a team in the Olympic Team Golf Tournament, and letters requesting any prizes they may be able to offer for the hosting of the tournament, or donations to support Team Samoa for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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Farani Preparing for 2008 Olympics in Hong Kong
hortly after Farani Tavui qualified for the Beijing Olympics in the 81kg category for Boxing, an offer came through the SABA Vice-President Mr. Pauli Wong Kee for Farani to be trained in Hong Kong in preparation for the Olympics under the direction of his son Andrew Wong Kee, the owner of JAB Gymnasium in Hong Kong.
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Olympic Promotion begins at AhMu Academy & Magiagi
As part of raising awareness in schools about the Olympics, SASNOC sent information and activity packs about the Olympics and the Olympic Movement to schools in the Apia region.
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Westpac First to Answer Call of 2008 Olympic Team
During the month of June, more than 170 local businesses and organisations in Samoa were sent personal invitations to enter a team in the Olympic Team Golf Tournament, and letters requesting any donations or prizes they may be able to offer for the hosting of the tournament.
This afternoon Westpac Samoa became the first business to answer the 2008 Olympic team’s call to support the athletes and officials who will travel to Beijing later this month for the Olympics.
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Olympic Promotion for Apia Schools
As part of raising awareness in schools , we are presenting schools in the Apia region with information about the Olympics and the Olympic Movement.
As part of this promotion we are encouraging the schools to accept our offer to have a member of the 2008 Samoa Olympic Team to be a special guest at their school assembly in the first weeks of July, and to encourage their students to participate in the 2008 Olympic Day Run which will be held on Saturday 19th July.
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Olympic Day Run: 19 July
On Saturday the 19th of July SASNOC will be hosting an Olympic Day Run for Samoa to celebrate the creation of the International Olympic Committee and Olympic ideals. This will also be an opportunity for the people of Samoa to meet Samoa's Olympic team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Download the entry form here!
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Meet Team Samoa at our Golf Tournament
On Saturday 12th July 2008, Samoa's Olympic Team is hosting a fundraising golf tournament at the Faleata Golf Course in Samoa from 7am - 2pm.
Download the entry form here!
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PFL Samoa Sports Awards 2007 a Huge Success
Saturday 26th April 2008 marked a night to be remembered in Samoa when the PFL Samoa Sports Awards 2007 were held to
recognize the incredible achievements of athletes, officials, coaches and administrators during the year of 2007.
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Samoa now has 6 Athletes Confirmed for Beijing!
With the qualification of Farani Ricky Tuvai at the Oceania Boxing
Olympic Qualifications and Continental Championships in Samoa last week, Samoa now has six athletes on the road to Beijing.
Click below to find out more...
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One more for Beijing...Kayaker Rudolf Williams
SASNOC officially accepted an athlete qualification place at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games last week for Flatwater Kayaking in two men’s events; K1 500m and K1 1000m.
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Commonwealth Youth Games:Pune 12-18 Oct 2008
The deadline date for all Commonwealth Games Associations to return their completed Entry by Numbers forms for the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune is 12 April 2008, just one month away.
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NOC Evaluation
SASNOC underwent an in-depth NOC Evaluation in the first week of March 2008.
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PFL Samoa Sports Awards 2007
The PFL Samoa Sports Awards 2007 "Recognising Sporting Achievement" will be held on Saturday 26th April 2008 in Gymnasium #1, Faleata, Apia, SAMOA. There will be nine prestigious awards up for grabs. Samoan Sports Associations are invited to send nominations in by 20th March 2007. Download the nomination form here...
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SASNOC welcomes new CEO: Seiuli Fiu Peni Asi
Seiuli Fiu Peni Asi, (Treasurer of SASNOC and President of the Samoa Lawn Bowls Association), was appointed as Acting CEO by the Board of SASNOC on Tuesday 5th February.
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IOC Grant furnishes SASNOC offices
On behalf of Samoa, President of SASNOC Vaeolenofoafia Tapasu Leung Wai would like to express our humble thanks to IOC
President, Jacques Rogge for the funding provided to furnish our offices in Faleata.
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Women in Sport Conference; Jordan
SASNOC Board Member, Nynette Sass was elected to represent Samoa at the 4th IOC World Conference on Women and Sport in Jordan from 9-10 March, 2008.
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A Gift from the Chinese Embassy
This week, SASNOC was gifted with a Mazda pickup from the Chinese Embassy for general office use.
President of SASNOC, Vaeolenofoafia Tapasu Leung Wai expressed his sincere gratitude towards the Embassy for their gift.
We are also still awaiting the arrival of the Daimler Chrysler vehicle as promised from the IOC (International Olympic Committees)
But for now, if you see one of the SASNOC staff driving around in a red Mazda pickup make sure you wave "hello".
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Samoa enters 14 sports for 2009 Mini Games
Samoa has entered in 14 of the 15 sports for the 2009 Pacific Mini Games which will be held in the Cook Islands between the 21st of September and 2nd of October in 2009.
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Samoa Archery gets a spot for Beijing
Samoa will be represented at the Olympic Games in Archery for the first time at the Beijing Olympics.
During the Continental Qualifier Tournament for Oceania held in New Zealand last week, Australia obtained 2 places for the Women's competition in Beijing and one place for the Men's competition, but the surprise came from Joseph Walter of Samoa who obtained the final spot!
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Cricket, an Olympic Sport?
On Monday 10th November, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the International Cricket Council's (ICC) application to become an IOC - recognised international federation. For the last six years the ICC have been working towards this goal after becoming a member of the General Associtaion of International Sports Federations (GAISF) in 2002.
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Sean Connery congratulates Samoa
A letter was received this week addressed to Vui Tapasu Leung Wai, President of SASNOC, and signed by none other than world renown actor, Sir Sean Connery congratulating and encouraging SASNOC to vote for Glasgow 2014.
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Toa Samoa comes out on top
Toa Samoa heads to the Rugby League World Cup, 0ctober 2008 in Sydney Australia with a World Cup Campaign and 9-a-side 1-Day Tournament: December 15, 2007 starring Toa Samoa Captain, Nigel Vagana.
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Minogue appointed PGC Executive Director
SASNOC's SPG2007 Operations Advisor, Andrew Minogue, has been appointed the new Executive Director of the Pacific Games Council. Whilst Andrew will eventually move to New Caledonia to take up this role, the PGC have agreed for Andrew to remain at SASNOC until the middle of 2008 to continue working on the Post Games Report and to assist SASNOC's strategic planning in the aftermath of the Games.
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Samoa Taekwondo invited to Beijing Qualifier
Samoa Taekwondo have been invited to send a team to compete in the 2007 World Taekwondo Qualification Tournament in Noumea, New Caledonia for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in China.
Two fighters have been selected to represent Samoa in this Tournament; KainoThompsen Lautusi & Tevaga Simon Peter Ahhim.
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Vaeolenofoafia elected Regional Vice President
Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade and President of SASNOC, Vaeolenofoafia Vui Tapasu Leung Wai (pictured) has been elected onto the Commonwealth Games Executive Board as a Regional Vice President for Oceania.
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Five Athletes for the Bejing 2008 Wildcard
SASNOC sent an application to the Tripartite Commission for Invitation places for athletes in Badminton, Archery & Canoeing for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. The Tripartite Commission for the Olympic games is made up of members from the IOC, Association of National Olympic Committees and International Federation.
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