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Boiler swim set to make splash

The boiler is back, and a good line-up is expected for the popular annual event. Tomorrow afternoon sees the start of triathlon week, and the first event is Thursday’s Trader Jacks sponsored round the boiler swim. If you want one of the special Trader Jacks shirts, then be on the start line to score one […]

Kiwis hold out Aussies

The Kiwi Anzac cricket team will still be singing ‘we are the champions’ after outsmarting the Aussies on the cricket pitch last Saturday. The day’s fun match was organised by Kiwi captain Mike Pynenburg and Aussie captain John Hobbs as an event to bring together New Zealand and Australian expats in the Anzac spirit. The […]

Top Shape supports Luciana and Danielle

Get fit and help national netball players Luciana Matenga (centre left) and Danielle Trego (centre right) with their up and coming netball campaigns. The two young netballers are members of the Top Shape Gym and are regular attendees at the gym’s group fitness classes. Top Shape managers and instructors have decided that proceeds from this […]

Eels win wet and wild minor premiership

The Avatiu Eels league club is $2000 richer after holding off the Tupapa Panthers in Saturday’s ‘wet and wild’ minor premiership clash at Avatiu to win the cash and title 12-8. The game got off to a slow start in light rain conditions as both teams kept the risk taking and mistakes to a minimum. […]

Table tennis on shot

Five young Cook Islands table tennis players have been in New Zealand for the past three weeks competing in the Oceania Table Tennis Championships, Pacific Cup Championships, Global Junior Circuit and Youth Olympic qualifying events. The team travelled with manager Dennis Tararo from Mauke and coach Tearoa Iorangi. The local players attended a three day […]

Tri time for little athletes

Raft of fun

Southern group islands’ schoolchildren can expect some exciting new PE activities when they return to school after the holidays. Teachers from all southern group schools have been learning new ideas at this week’s PE workshop with Katie Rogers from the ministry of education. On Tuesday they gathered at the Nikao Social Centre to learn how […]

Lifters throw weight behind Fiji champs

Rarotonga junior weightlifters Sirla Pera and Luisa Peters are preparing to represent the country at the Oceania Junior and Senior Weightlifting Championships in Fiji. The pair will travel to Fiji on April 27 for the four day championships from May 4 to 7. Peters, the only Cook Islands female weightlifter, will be lifting in the […]

It's all about enjoying sport

Traffic came to a slow crawl in Titikaveka yesterday to make way for the 53 kids who took part in the fun Kids Triathlon. Two races were held on the day – one for the little babes and kids aged 4-8 and the second for older kids aged 9 and upwards. And just like an […]

Women refs do top job

The inaugural Oceania Under17 Women’s Championship in New Zealand featured 11 of Oceania’s top referees, who had all taken part in elite training and stringent physical testing leading up to the event. Cook Islands women soccer referees Tupou Patia and Melanie Wilson, along with other referees from Oceania, were taken through a series of theoretical […]

Cooks to host international tennis

Thanks to the international standard tennis courts at the Nikao tennis centre, the Cook Islands has won the bid to host the International Tennis Federation Junior East Pacific Tournament from July 5-9. Cook Islands Tennis president Damien Beddoes and minister of youth and sports Apii Piho announced this week that the Cook Islands will host […]

Three generations on court

Among the tennis playing families that turned out to last Saturday’s Tennis Cook Islands open day was the Baudinet family who had three generations on court. June Baudinet along with daughter Tania and granddaughter Tatyana Vakatini had lots of fun on Saturday and were certainly the talk of the day. June is well known for […]

Junior tennis players show their skills

Junior tennis players had the whole Nikao tennis courts to themselves on Monday for their school holiday tennis lessons. Mini games were played with some very competitive kids, who had impressive skills. Under the watchful eye of coach Malcolm Kajer the kids practised their new skills including the smash grip and serve grip. And with […]

Thursday registration for triathlon

Thursday is the final day of registrations for the up and coming Air New Zealand Rarotonga International Triathlon race. The race will be held on May 1 from the Ngatangiia field and all local athletes must register and pay entry fee by this Thursday to triathlon organisers Len Edwards, Geoff Stoddart or Jennie George. The […]

Aito Cook Islands a first

The first ever Aito Cook Islands oe vaka race for V1 paddlers will be staged in early June. Four tickets to the prestigious Aito Tahiti race will be up for grabs for winners of the Aito Cook Islands races in the open men’s 24km race, open women’s 12km race and the junior under 19 men’s […]

White Puta team to beat

The men’s five-a-side soccer teams will battle it out again today at the CIFA complex in Matavera with team White Puta the side to beat. Last Thursday White Puta dealt out a huge 14-1 thrashing to the Waka Boys. White Puta will face Virgin Ave today while the Waka Boys will need to regroup before […]

Heaps on for kids during holidays

If you haven’t really decided what to do with your kids this week, there are a number of kid’s sporting events on over the next two weeks of the school holiday. Today the Cook Islands Cricket, Avarua Bakery and 88FM cricket school holiday programme starts at 9am at the Matavera field. The day will be […]

Eels slip out of Eagles' grip

The Avatiu Eels managed to slip out of the Ngatangiia-Matavera Sea Eagles’ claws on Saturday in an intense match at the swamp. The Sea Eagles continued to prove that they are no easy beats as they forced the Eels to lift their game. The Eels took charge of the game early on in the match […]

Kids, why not give tri a try

Want to try something new these school holidays? Take part in the free Raro Kids’ Triathlon on Wednesday, April 21. And best of all it’s not a serious race so there will be plenty of fun to be had – go on, give it a try. Registration of athletes begins at 9.30am on the day, […]

Henry only new face at CIRU

Aitutaki businessman Mike Henry is the only new addition to the Cook Islands Rugby Union executive committee after the association held its annual general meeting on Tuesday. (April 13). John Wichman remains president, with hardworking chief executive Ben Koteka continuing for another two years. Prime minister Jim Marurai is the patron of the association with […]