With many of their athletes set to make their debut at the Fiji Primary Schools Tuckers Ice Cream Games, Taveuni team manager Ilaisa Deke says community support will be crucial this week.

Team Taveuni is confident they have what it takes to compete against the larger districts at the Fiji Primary Schools Tuckers Ice Cream Games at the HFC Bank Stadium later this week.

All officials selected to oversee the Fiji Primary School Tuckers Ice Cream Games have undergone extensive training to ensure the tournament runs smoothly next week.

Royals Athletics Club president Antonio Raboiliku says one of the main objectives of their club competition is to help athletes prepare for the Fiji Primary Schools Tuckers Ice Cream Games next week.

Tailevu is approaching next week’s Primary Schools Tuckers Ice Cream Games with a clear goal: to showcase their talent, rather than simply making up the numbers.

More than 2,000 athletes from across the country are set to compete in the upcoming Fiji Primary Schools Tuckers Ice Cream Games at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva.

Los Angeles marked 1,000 days to go until its first Paralympic Games by unveiling on Wednesday an initial competition schedule for the 2028 event, which organisers say will feature more sports, sessions and medals than ever before.

Fiji athletics representative Braelynn Yee continues to shine on and off the track after being selected for the Griffith Asia Business Internship 2025 while studying at Griffith University in Australia.

Two World Athletics employees and a contracted consultant systematically stole more than 1.5 million euros ($1.75 million) from the organisation over several years in a theft uncovered during an audit, the sport’s governing body said on Thursday.

Climate change is one of the toughest opponents facing any athlete, warns Brazilian soccer player Tamires Dias, one of around 40 elite sportsmen and women involved in the launch of a new global campaign that will feature at next month’s COP30 summit in her country.

Women’s marathon world record-holder Ruth Chepngetich has been banned for three years after admitting a doping violation, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said overnight.

Just two days after laying their head teacher Lasarusa Senibale to rest, students of Suva Methodist Primary School took to the tracks today at the Suva Zone One Primary School Athletics.