Athletics Fiji is now finding alternative venues to have their athletes train and prepare for the Pacific Games.

Newly crowned world champion Sha’Carri Richardson stormed to victory in the women’s 100 metres at the Weltklasse Diamond League meeting.

The United States emphatically won their ninth world men’s 4×400 gold from the last 10 finals on Sunday but the absence of their women’s team allowed the Netherlands to take gold after one of the performances of the week by anchor Femke Bol.

United States sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson said winning the world 100 metres final from lane nine on Monday was fitting after a lifetime of being in her own world.

Burkina Faso’s Hugues Fabrice Zango soared to victory in the men’s triple jump for the country’s first-ever World Athletics Championships gold on Monday, while 18-year-old title favourite Jaydon Hibbert of Jamaica pulled out injured.

Two-time Fiji Finals blue ribbon winner Kesaia Boletakanakadavu achieved a personal best of 12.46 seconds at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

The Royals coach Antonio Raboiliku says the Youth Commonwealth Games in Trinidad & Tobago has been a wonderful experience to be able to take two youths who were selected from the Coca-Cola games to test out their feet on an international stage before the Pacific Games.

Jamaican Oblique Seville put the United States on warning that they will have their work cut out for another world 100 metres sweep when he posted the fastest time of the first round with an impressive 9.86 second run.

The mixed 4×400 metres relay has been a bit of a slow burn since joining the world athletics championships in 2019, with star athletes often giving it a miss, but Gabby Thomas said she, and the United States, were taking it very seriously in Budapest.

Two-time Fiji Finals blue ribbon winner, Kesaia Boletakanakadavu has left our shores to compete in the World Athletics Championships.

Team Fiji swimmer David Young finished in fourth place in the Men’s 50m Freestyle final at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad and Tobago.

The valiant efforts of athletes vying for a spot in the Pacific Games have not gone unnoticed especially those who come from a far to give it their best shot.