Long-distance runner Avikash Lal missed out on the Pacific Mini Games but excelled at the Vancouver Half Marathon yesterday.

Heleina Young, former Fiji track queen, is set to compete at the upcoming Pacific Mini Games.

After a string of standout performances in the recent national trials, 20-year-old David Raibiriki has firmly established himself as one of Team Fiji’s top prospects heading into this year’s Pacific Mini Games.

Olympic 100 metres champion Noah Lyles has cancelled his much-anticipated showdown with NFL wide receiver Tyreek Hill, due to what he said were personal reasons and lack of buy-in from sponsors.

Sakiusa Sokotukivei will make his debut on the international stage next week, representing Team Fiji in the Men’s Shot Put at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games.

Team Fiji Javelin thrower Miliakere Nikolau will be out not only to represent the country but every young girl from the islands when she competes in the Pacific Mini Games set to start next week in Palau.

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis said he was looking forward to a night on the town with former sprint king Usain Bolt after setting a pole vault world record of 6.28 metres at Sunday’s Diamond League event in Stockholm.

With just 15 days to go until the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau, all eyes are on one of Fiji’s brightest track and field stars, Sereana Viriviri, who is set to lead the nation’s medal hopes in the women’s high jump.

Loata Lewageena, a name fast becoming synonymous with excellence in throws within Fiji, is set to make her mark on the international stage at the upcoming Mini Games.

Kenyan Beatrice Chebet came close to breaking the women’s 5000 metres world record on Friday at the Rome Diamond League when she clocked 14:03.69, a meeting record that was just 2.5 seconds shy of Gudaf Tsegay’s 1997 world mark of 14:00.21.

Ekaterina Guliyev is set to lose the 800 metres silver medal she won for Russia at the 2012 Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed her appeal against a four-year doping ban, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Friday.

Athletics Fiji is calling on the nation for support as it works towards raising funds to cover athlete levies for the upcoming Pacific Mini Games in Palau.