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Palau to host 2010 Micronesia Games

Palau will be the host country for the 2010 Micronesian Games to be held in August 1st to the 10th. Countries participating are Nauru, Kiribati, Marshall Islands Guam, Saipan, Palau and the four states of Micronesia – Yap, Kosrae, Chuuk and Pohnpei.

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New Secretary for Kiribati Weightlifting

Willy Uan, past General Secretary of the Kiribati Olympic Committee and one of the first coaches and administrator for the sport of weightlifting in Kiribati has now been elected the General Secretary of the Kiribati Weightlifting Federation.

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New Record to Itte Detenamo (Nauru)

Super-heavyweight weightlifter Itte Detenamo (Nauru) has just returned back to the Oceania Weightlifting Institute here in New Caledonia from his short but successful trip to the USA, where he competed at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Weightlifting Championships, in Columbus – Ohio. Itte snatched a personal best lift of 175Kg and clean & jerked 216Kg and set […]

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US Olympic freestyle gold medalist Henry Wittenberg dead at 91

Henry Wittenberg, a U.S. freestyle wrestler who won a gold and a silver medal at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, died Tuesday at age 91. The New York Times described Wittenberg as “one of America’s greatest wrestlers while a New York City police officer.” According to the obituary in the New York Times, Wittenberg was […]

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