Bon jour, it is Friday and the sun is up early this morning here in Noumea, New Caledonia.
There’s two more days to go in the 14th Pacific Games.
Hosts New Caledonia continues to race away from the rest on the medal table while Papua New Guinea has leaped ahead of Fiji into third spot.
Bon jour, it’s Wednesday and another overcast morning here in Noumea, New Caledonia for the 14th Pacific Games and the countdown to the end of the games has begun.
Three more days of competition and we would be heading home.
Pacific Games diary by Matai Akauola
Bon jour….It is an overcast day here in Noumea Day 8 of the 14 Pacific Games.
The weather last week was perfect although it’s been cold at an average of 20 degrees Celsius. Yesterday we heard the untold stories from some of those who competed in the first South Pacific Games in Suva in 1963.
Bon jour! A lot of action on the cards today especially in weightlifting and athletics.
I was at the Pacific Games Council (PGC) Annual General Conference yesterday at the Secretariat of the Pacific headquarters and was called on to be the official photographer for PGC. And in the evening I went to two functions, one for former athletes from 1963 and the other hosted by Tahiti.
02 SEPTEMBER 2011 NOUMEA (PACNEWS) ---- Bon jour…It is Day 5 of the 14th Pacific Games in New Caledonia and despite all the hiccups, hurdles, blocked toilets, flooded rooms, late transport, long wait for meals, communication problems etc..etc, this first week has been nothing but eventful. The main thing – ‘The Games have gone on’.
And to cap it off, the President of France Nicholas Sakorzy ‘was here’.
31 AUGUST 2011 NOUMEA (PACNEWS) ----- Bon jour everyone…it is Wednesday morning now and we’ve been here a week. I know today the Chef de Missions are having an interesting meeting with the Organising Committee of the 14th Pacific Games. The teams especially from the English speaking countries continue to be plagued by a myriad of problems and no one seems to be listening. I’ll get more on the outcome later.
30 AUGUST 2011 NOUMEA (PACNEWS) ----- Bon jour everyone and welcome as we look forward to the start of competition proper at the 14th Pacific Games in New Caledonia. 13 sports in action and medals up for grabs in Va’a (Outrigger), Body-building and Swimming.
I woke up at the usual time and went to breakfast around 7.30am planning to be based at the Va’a competition.
It’s a beautiful sunny Noumea morning and once again the Tahitians are tipped to dominate but having seen the practices earlier on, I was hoping for the underdogs- Samoa, Cook Islands, Fiji and Papua New Guinea to spring some surprises.
