Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 41 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Sunday morning 11 August 2024.
 
Happy Birthday Racheli in Lami and sweet 16 to my dear cousin Janey in Sydney!
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent, where it is 19 degrees Celsius at 5am with strong gustily winds later this morning.
 
And at the Paris Olympic Games today: Ethiopian Tamirat Tola delivered a masterclass in solo front running to win the Olympic Men’s marathon in Paris overnight, as Eliud Kipchoge’s bid for a third gold went up in smoke.
 
Tola clocked an Olympic record of 2hr 06min 26sec for victory, finishing 21 seconds ahead of Belgium’s Bashir Abdi for silver and Kenya’s Benson Kipruto rounded out the podium a further 13sec back.

Meanwhile, on the sand in front of an illuminated Eiffel Tower, top-seeded Brazilian pair Ana Patricia Silva and Eduarda Santos won Olympic gold in the Women’s beach volleyball overnight after three tense sets in a bad-tempered game, beating the 7th-ranked Canadians.

There was never a dull moment, with frequent challenges from both sides, repeated booing from the vociferous Brazilian fans, and at one point a heated row between the four players across the net.

Play was halted while the players argued and gestured at each other, before the umpire waved a yellow card at both teams, and the venue’s DJ played John Lennon’s “Imagine” as the four players returned to their halves with reluctant smiles while the crowd sang along.

There were 39 gold medal events in Paris overnight in:
·       Artistic swimming: Duet free routine medal final
·       Athletics (track and field) climaxed with an all-finals day: Men’s marathon final; Men’s high jump final; Men’s 800m final; Women’s javelin throw final; W 100m hurdles final; M 5000m final; W 1500m final; M 4x400m relay final; W 4x400m relay final
·       Basketball: M bronze-medal and gold-medal games
·       Beach volleyball: W medal finals
·       Boxing: M 92kg+ final
·       Breaking: M individual final
·       Canoe sprint: W K1 500m finals
·       Diving: M 10m platform final
·       Football: W gold-medal game
·       Golf: W golf medal final
·       Handball: W bronze medal and gold medal games
·       Modern pentathlon: M final
·       Rhythmic gymnastics: Group all-around final
·       Sport climbing: W boulder/lead medal final
·       Table tennis: W team bronze medal and gold medal finals
·       Taekwondo: W 67kg+ medal finals
·       Track cycling: M Madison final
·       Volleyball: M gold-medal game and the W bronze-medal game
·       Water polo: W bronze-medal and gold medal games
·       Weightlifting: M 102kg final; W 81kg final; M 102kg+ final
·       Wrestling: W freestyle 62kg medal finals
 
In Paris Olympic Games Men’s basketball finals – the USA Dream Team led by King James and featuring Steph Curry and Kevin Durrant won gold 98-87 over France this morning.
 
Earlier, NBA superstar, Nikola Jokic recorded a triple-double as Serbia defeated Germany 83 vs 93 to claim Olympic men’s basketball bronze overnight.
 
The Women’s basketball finals coming up – USA vs France for gold and Australia vs Belgium for bronze.
 
In Rugby Union: World champions South Africa scored five tries to one as they crushed Australia 7-33 in the opening Test of the Rugby Championship in Brisbane yesterday.

The only Australian try came late in the game when the Springboks were reduced to 13 players following yellow cards to Malcolm Marx and Marco van Staden.

Australian Head Coach Joe Schmidt said the first half onslaught had taken its toll on his side.
Later in Wellington - take a bow Los Pumas!

Argentina humbled the All Blacks with a bonus point 38-30 win, after outplaying and outscoring Scott Robertson’s men hands down.

In Rugby League: Bulldogs Captain Stephen Crichton has accused Dragons five-eighth Kyle Flanagan of biting him during their side’s clash last night.

After watching several replays of the incident, Kangaroos Head Coach Mal Meninga said there was “no doubt” Flanagan had bitten Crichton, who was bleeding after the pair’s altercation on the ground.

“That was hard to watch and it’s hard evidence,” Meninga said.

In the Paris Olympic Games Women’s Football: Finally, the Americans received the elusive gold medal from FIFA President Gianni Infantino after USA 1-0 Brazil this morning.
 
It was not quite the ending that Brazil Captain, the legendary Marta was hoping for, as she bowed out of her sixth and last Olympics aged 38 with a third silver medal.
 
And in Boxing: Lin Yu-Ting from Taiwan, beat a boxer from Poland in the Paris Olympic Games Women’s Featherweight category for gold, after a week of controversy over her gender, along with fellow gold medal winner Imane Khelif from Algeria.
 
And that’s a wrap girls!
 
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