Jamaican five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah appeared to sustain an injury during the 100 metres at the NYC Grand Prix on Sunday less than 50 days before the Paris Games.

Spain’s Laura Garcia-Caro learned the hard way to wait until the finish line to celebrate after missing out on a medal when she was overtaken by Ukraine’s Lyudmila Olyanovska in the 20km race walk at the European Athletics Championships.

Team Fiji athlete, Yeshnil Karan has broken the national record in the half marathon event in Suva this morning.

Former blue ribbon winner Waisale Inoke will be running alongside Team Fiji sprinter Waisake Tewa in the senior men’s 100m semi-final this afternoon at the Oceania Athletics Championships at HFC Bank Stadium in Suva.

Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka finished sixth in the Masters Men Discus Throw 75-79 age group at the Oceania Athletics Championship at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva.

Sweden’s Armand Duplantis failed in another attempt to break his own pole vault world record but continued to impress ahead of the Paris Olympics at the Diamond League meet at Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday.

Fiji’s Reki Selita Roberts has managed to settle in third place in the Under-18 in Day 1 Heptathlon event gaining 513 points at the Oceania Athletics.

Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ramped up preparations for a title defence at this year’s Paris Games by running a world-leading time of 52.70 seconds on Friday in her first 400-metre hurdles race in over a year.

It will be an exciting day as athletes from around the region will be battling it out at the Oceania Athletics at the HFC Bank Stadium starting today.

Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet won the men’s 5,000 metres in the second fastest time ever with a sizzling final lap, while Jakob Ingebrigtsen of Norway hurled himself across the finish line to win the men’s 1,500m in Thursday’s Oslo Diamond League meet.

Over 200 athletes will be representing the country in the Oceania Championships at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva from Saturday.

Filimoni Vuli Waqa’s influence was not confined to the Fiji Finals, he was also a mentor, motivator and a beacon of hope for over hundreds of thousands of athletes.