Samoa weightlifter Ele Opeloge is set to win an Olympic silver medal after two competitors failed doping tests from the 2008 Beijing Games; A local rugby league match in Papua New Guinea ends in violence; The PNG Hunters prepare for their first home finals match; And we speak to Cook Islands Under 20 football coach Matt Calcott.

Samoa weightlifter Ele Opeloge is set to win an Olympic silver medal after two competitors failed doping tests from the 2008 Beijing Games; A local rugby league match in Papua New Guinea ends in violence; The PNG Hunters prepare for their first home finals match; And we speak to Cook Islands Under 20 football coach Matt Calcott.

The Rio Olympics comes to a close, an influential Pacific sports administrator dies and success for Fiji and Samoa's rugby league teams in Hawaii. In Fiji tens of thousands turned out to welcome home the country's Olympic champion sevens team.

The Rio Olympics comes to a close, an influential Pacific sports administrator dies and success for Fiji and Samoa's rugby league teams in Hawaii. In Fiji tens of thousands turned out to welcome home the country's Olympic champion sevens team.

This week, Fiji win sevens gold in Rio, Tonga's Pita Taufatofua confident of performing, and Fiji, Samoa and Tonga prepare for rugby league's Ohana Cup in Hawaii.

This week; Tonga makes global headlines at the Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony; The Games get underway; Vanuatu fails in its bid for a late inclusion in beach volleybal; And Manu Samoa is confirmed to take part in the inaugural Brisbane Global Rugby 10s.

This week; We speak with Pacific athletes in Rio as the Olympics prepare to get underway; Fiji's new netball coach has big plans; And a new film explores the world of talent scouts trying to exploit Pacific Island athletes.

Pacific weightlifters are prepared to struggle against an uneven field at the Rio Olympics; we look at the mood of Team Samoa as they prepare to depart for Rio; Tonga tries to lead the Pacific on the Winter Olympics stage with its admission to the International Ski Federation.

This week; We speak with Tonga's National Olympic Committee about the Rio Olympics; Papua New Guinea's women's cricketers keep their World Cup hopes alive; The draw for next year's Rugby League World Cup is revealed; And Pacific Oceania avoid relegation in the Davis Cup.

This week, Jarryd Hayne is cut from the Fiji Olympic sevens team, the road to the women's Cricket World Cup heats up for Pacific teams, we continue our Olympic countdown and the Niue rugby league team to tour Africa.