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August 12, 2024
By Amit Sarwal The Paris Olympics might be over, but in a stunning turn of events on the last weekend Australian breakdancing champion Rachael Gunn, known as B-girl Raygun, scored a zero in her debut. The 36-year-old university lecturer with a PhD in cultural studies failed to earn a single point across her three bouts ... <a title="Breaking bad: Why Australia’s Raygun scored zero in Olympics debut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/breaking-bad-why-australias-raygun-scored-zero-in-olympics-debut/" aria-label="Read more about Breaking bad: Why Australia’s Raygun scored zero in Olympics debut">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia’s homeboy Kauli Vaast has won the Olympic gold medal in the men’s shortboard finals of the Paris 2024 surfing event and in the process made history in Teahupo’o. Radio 1 reports Vaast 22, an indigenous Tahitian, beat Australia’s Jack Robinson to become the first ... <a title="French Polynesia’s homeboy ‘King of Teahupo’o’ wins Olympic surf gold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/07/french-polynesias-homeboy-king-of-teahupoo-wins-olympic-surf-gold/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia’s homeboy ‘King of Teahupo’o’ wins Olympic surf gold">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2024
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist The Fijiana women’s sevens rugby team have lost both pool matches at the Paris Olympics today and look set to miss the quarterfinals in the process. Bronze medallists at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Fijians lost 17-14 to Canada in their first pool game. China then handed ... <a title="Paris Olympics: Fijiana sevens on thin ice after losing two games" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/29/paris-olympics-fijiana-sevens-on-thin-ice-after-losing-two-games/" aria-label="Read more about Paris Olympics: Fijiana sevens on thin ice after losing two games">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2024
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist in Paris France has claimed their first Olympic Games sevens rugby gold medal with a 28-7 win over Fiji at the Stade de France Star French player Antoine Dupont scored two late second half tries to help the side create history in front of a partisan 69,000 ... <a title="Fiji falls short as Dupont rallies France to claim Olympics rugby sevens gold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/28/fiji-falls-short-as-dupont-rallies-france-to-claim-olympics-rugby-sevens-gold/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji falls short as Dupont rallies France to claim Olympics rugby sevens gold">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As French Polynesia’s Olympic surfing competition began this weekend, it will be the only event to host athletes in a floating hotel. The accommodation is provided by the luxury French Polynesia ship Aranui 5 for the duration of the surfing competition being held on the iconic ... <a title="Paris Olympics in Tahiti: Surfing by day, luxury floating at night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/28/paris-olympics-in-tahiti-surfing-by-day-luxury-floating-at-night/" aria-label="Read more about Paris Olympics in Tahiti: Surfing by day, luxury floating at night">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2024
The French Ambassador to the Pacific says President Emmanuel Macron is yet to sign-off on a letter from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) requesting authorisation for a high-level Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia. Véronique Roger-Lacan told RNZ Pacific with the Paris Olympics kicking off this week, it could be tough propping up security in ... <a title="French President Macron yet to sign-off on Pacific leaders bid to visit Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/25/french-president-macron-yet-to-sign-off-on-pacific-leaders-bid-to-visit-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about French President Macron yet to sign-off on Pacific leaders bid to visit Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Police in New Caledonia have a new weapon in their arsenal — state of the art armoured vehicles with machine guns, flown in from France to take control of the law and order situation following the violent unrest. The state of emergency was lifted in the territory last ... <a title="France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/france-sends-armoured-vehicles-with-machine-gun-capability-to-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. His visit involves meetings with a range of ministers and officials to continue cooperation arrangements initiated by his predecessor. “I’m not here to come begging,” Brotherson said, adding ... <a title="‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/im-not-begging-tahitis-brotherson-tells-france-in-prep-for-independence/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence">Read more</a>
