Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 10 Episode 15 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Tuesday morning 16 July 2024, where it is mostly cloudy and a crazy 29 degrees Celsius at 5am.
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
In Rugby Union: "That's not All Black standard, but we still found a way. They boxed us in the corner and we couldn't get out. We weren't transferring what we trained onto the field, but we created enough opportunities at the end," All Blacks Coach Scott Robertson said after they beat England at Eden Park last Saturday.
New Zealand play Fiji in San Diego this Saturday before the Rugby Championship starts in August.
In Rugby League: Queensland Maroons Captain Daly Cherry-Evans won’t be influenced by tonight’s result, with speculation the State of Origin decider could be the 35-year-old’s last.
DCE has been a mainstay in the Queensland side since he took over as Captain in 2019, with the veteran halfback to play his 18th consecutive ORIGIN match for his state tonight.
In Football: Lautaro Martinez scored an extra-time winner for Argentina 1-0 Colombia to win a record 16th Copa America title at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
A poor game, marred by security and crowd issues, forcing an 82-minute delay, was decided by a quality finish from Martinez - his fifth goal of the tournament.
The win was the third straight major tournament title for Argentina following their 2021 Copa America Cup victory and their triumph in the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
Prince William who is an avid football fan and the President of the Football Association, attended the EURO2024 final in Berlin with Prince George, the eldest of his children.
Writing on X after their heartbreaking loss to Spain, William said it “just wasn’t meant to be” but that he and all the fans at home are still "so proud" of the team.
At Wimbledon: Where prizemoney is the same across the Men’s and Women’s competitions, Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova both collected £2,700,000.
While Serbian legend, Novak Djokovic took home £1,400,000 prize money as runner-up, adding to his career prize money haul of US$182.5Million, comfortably the most won by any player over the course of their career.
And in Combat Sports: Less than two weeks after his win over Jorge Masvidal on Fanmio pay-per-view streaming platform, TMZ Sports is reporting that Nate Diaz is suing promoter Solomon Engel and Fanmio for fraud and breach of contract.
Diaz alleges that he was promised US$10Million pay for the boxing match, but that he only received US$1M upfront, but not the remaining 90% he claims to have been guaranteed.
In the Olympic Games: Olympic gold medals are mostly made of silver. Specifically, they’re 92.5% silver, plated with six grams of gold.
Silver medals are basically gold medals without the extra gilding. Meanwhile, bronze medals are made from 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc.
Gold medals at the Paris Olympics are worth US$800. A silver medal is worth about US$450, while a bronze medal is worth about US$5.
The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee offers "Operation Gold" payments where US Olympians winners get US$37,500 for winning gold, US$22,500 for winning silver and US$15,000 for winning bronze.
Singapore is the most generous to its athletes and gives its gold medal winners US$750,000.
At the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, Philippines weight lifter Hidilyn Diaz won US$200,000 for winning the country’s first gold medal plus additional compensation that brought her total earnings to US$970,000, plus a house, a condo and unlimited flights on the national airline!
And finally this smelly story: A flight carrying hungover England fans back from the EURO2024 final in Germany has been forced to make an emergency landing after an "undefined" smell filled the cabin.
That’s a wrap peeps!
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