Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 45 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Thursday morning 15 August 2024.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent, where it is cloudy and 20 degrees Celsius at 5am this morning.
 
Was the Paris Olympic Games the best ever?
 
Consider this data: In the Men's 100M freestyle heats in Paris, 20 Men swam fast enough to have won gold in all the Olympic games up to Atlanta 1996.

And every single runner in the Men's 1500M heats this Olympics, ran faster than Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile – an athletic feat once thought impossible.  The metric equivalent - running a sub-3Min 42.22Secs 1500M - is now old hat.

The new Olympic Games record is 3Min 27.25Secs set by American Cole Hocker.

In Rugby League: The NRL has announced a bumper class of 11 inductees into the NRL Hall of Fame, including Queensland greats Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Billy Slater, Cooper Cronk and Greg Inglis.

Former Souths Captain Sam Burgess, New Zealand and Tigers star Benji Marshall, indigenous trailblazer Lionel Morgan,  Kangaroos star of the 1970’s-1980’s Les Boyd, NSW Blues and Tigers legend Benny Elias and four-time premiership winner and the Broncos leading try-scorer Steve Renouf join them.

In Sportsbiz: Penn Entertainment, which operates the fledgling ESPN Bet app, reported revenue of US$1.7Billion, just under 1% down from 2023, but US$10Million more than expected.

In Rugby Union: Los Pumas Prop, Eduardo Bello says they hold no fear of the fortress that is Eden Park.

"We are really happy, because we came here to win two games. So the first step was Wellington. Now we are looking forward.

“Wellington for us is done. We focus on the next week. Now we play with another team, another mindset, we are ready to go."

The last time the Pumas beat the All Blacks in Christchurch in 2020, the return test in Hamilton saw them on the end of a 53-3 drubbing.

"We don't want this to happen again. There is a small difference to win the game or lose by 40 points against New Zealand. It's a new game. It's a new week."

In Football: Liverpool has agreed personal terms with Valencia goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili, and so the clock is ticking on the futures of two beloved Anfield stars if the Georgian joins.

Mamardashvili 23, is widely regarded as not only one of the premier goalkeepers in LaLiga, but also one of the world’s best, outstanding for Georgia at EURO2024.

In boxing: Long before he was Australia’s newest UFC fighter, Stewart Nicoll remembers life on a beach with a dugout canoe in the Solomon Islands.

Now 25 years on, Nicoll 29, is undefeated in eight professional fights enters the Octagon at UFC305, this Sunday in Perth.

And that’s a wrap!
 
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