Tonga
Rugby a class apart for business
More than 4,200 companies have signed up to Rugby Business Class Australia (RBCA) – a trade organisation set-up to capitalise on this year’s Rugby World Cup.
Tonga weighs in as host
The Tonga Weightlifting Federation, in conjunction with the Tonga National Olympic Committee, is to host the 2003 Commonwealth, Oceania & South Pacific Weightlifting Championships.
Tonga joins RWC schedule protest
Tonga has joined Italy in threatening to withdraw from this year's Rugby World Cup due to the scheduling of the pool matches.
IRB calls emergency meeting
The International Rugby Board (IRB) has scheduled a crisis meeting in November following the postponement of an inter-hemisphere team clash.
FIFA names Executive Committee
The FIFA Executive Committee has two new members for the 2002-2004 period, following the confederation congresses in Oceania and Asia.
The Week Ahead
With only a month to go until the World Cup begins soccer fever builds with Soccerex, the international conference and exhibition for the business of soccer, the semi-finals of the Champions League, the controversial FIFA Executive EGM and the Oceania Football Confederation Congress in Tonga.
O’Neill pushes for Super 15 series
Australian rugby union chief John O'Neill is to push for a Super 15 series in 2003 with the addition of a combined Pacific team from Tonga, Samoa and Fiji.
Pacific Lions rugby moves closer
A South Pacific rugby union team seems likely to become a reality with England proposed as its first opposition.
Walker defiant over World Cup losses
Sir Rodney Walker, the UK’s Rugby Football League (RFL) chairman, has rejected calls for his resignation after making losses at last year’s World Cup.
PLAYER BOYCOTT THREATENS RUGBY LEAGUE WORLD CUP
Preparations for the Rugby League World Cup have been rocked by the threat of a players? boycott based on a labour dispute in New Zealand.
OCEANIA SOCCER MEETING ENDS IN DISARRAY
The Oceania Football Confederation's extraordinary congress called to elect a new president ended in disarray on Thursday without the vote being taken.
ALL BLACKS TO PLAY BARBARIANS IN JAPAN
The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRFU) has announced that the All Blacks will play a Pacific rim Barbarians side in Tokyo in November.
ALL BLACKS WARNED ON SPONSORSHIP `BREACHES’
The All Blacks $180 million sponsorship deal with sporting goods giant, adidas, has been threatened by player discontent over some of adidas? equipment.
ARU BOSS THREATENS SNUB OF NORTHERN
Australian rugby's most powerful administrator has warned British teams that they risk being snubbed by Australia if they persist in picking weakened squads to tour Down Under.
FIFA CONGRESS MOST IMPORTANT FOR 24 YEARS
A bruising three-month battle for the FIFA presidency reaches a climax on Monday when Sepp Blatter and Lennart Johansson contest the biggest job in soccer.
IRB TO EXPAND PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIP
The International Rugby Board (IRB) has recommended adding Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa to the four-nation Pacific Rim championship.
BUSES FINDING THEIR WAY ON GAMES EVE
Drivers have got lost and some buses have simply not turned up, but team officials have said the biggest teething problem of the 16th Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur - transport - is getting better.
PACIFIC RIM CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE EXPANDED
International rugby union officials have decided to expand the Pacific Rim championship from four to seven teams.