The Opeloge family is sporting royalty in Samoa.

10 of the 12 Opeloge siblings have gone on to represent Samoa in international weightlifting competitions, bringing home six Commonwealth Games medals, a gold medal at the Junior World Championships, numerous Oceania and Pacific Games titles and an Olympic silver medal in 2008.

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Maselino Masoe was the first Samoan boxer to win a major world title, but the opportunity almost never happened.

Masoe sat down with Talei Anderson and Faivaeselopepe Anric Sitanilei to talk about the sacrifice and lessons he learnt going pro, and the moment it all came down to in 2004.

Fitness guru Naca Cawanibuka has been instrumental in Fiji's success in sevens and fifteens for almost 15 years. Now he's taking on a new challenge as Head of Athletic Performance for the country's first ever Super Rugby team, the Fijian Drua.

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In 2020 the Kaiviti Silktails and Papua New Guinea Hunters rugby league team's seasons were scrapped because of Covid-19. In 2021, they left their families at home and relocated to Australia to keep their sporting dreams alive.

Rugby is described as one of the toughest sports on the field, but it's nothing compared to how they used to play it back in Tonga. 

Kasivaki is an ancient Tongan sport very similar to rugby, but it was played in the ocean, under the water and with a rock.

Tongan artist and practitioner, Milika Pusiaki, talks to us about the history of the sport, and where in the world it's being played today.

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The push for a Pacific Island Super Rugby team has been decades in the making and finally, in February, it will come to fruition with not one but two new teams, Moana Pasifika and the Fijian Drua. So with less than five months to go until kick-off, how ready are they?

Rugby league is back at De La Salle College for the first time in 22 years. 

Despite the absence of a rugby league team since 1999, the south Auckland school has been a melting-pot for talent, which boasts the likes Jason Taumalolo, Jeff Lima, and Leeson Ah Mau to name a few.

Former student and New Zealand international, Motu Tony, has helped re-establish the programme.

The General Manager of Football and High-Performance at New Zealand Rugby League tells us what playing for De La Salle meant for him, and why it was important for him to get the rugby league programme up and running again.