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Joanna Lumley invites Nepal 2012 Olympic team to stay at her house

Their performance at the Beijing Olympics means they are unlikely to be long-term house guests. Which is somewhat lucky for Joanna Lumley, who has invited the entire Nepalese Olympic team to stay with her when they compete in the 2012 London Games. The Absolutely Fabulous actress, who was last week hailed as a ‘Goddess of […]

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The Oceania Weightlifting Institute

In 2001 Paul Coffa the Oceania General Secretary , left Nauru with his family and moved to the beautiful islands of Fiji . He settled in the town of Sigatoka . After spending all of his life in weightlifting, and after seeing how much potential there was on the island of Nauru and the Pacific […]

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Wait is over for Myers

Proving herself at national level was a weight off the shoulders for Jenna Myers. At the Australian weightlifting championships in Melbourne last week, the Frankford 23-year-old lifted more than any other sub-75kg Tasmanian woman in history to claim the national title and a shot at the world crown. The achievement, which involved breaking two of […]

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