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You could see it in every member of the team. Members of the national side were finally living their dreams. At the tail end of a three-year run with coach Ben Ryan, they were poised for a leap into the annals of global sports history. Never before had Fiji been pushed onto such a stage, where the global audience figures could reach dizzying heights. We had won World Cups in the abbreviated version of the sport. And fresh off back-to-back title victories in World Rugby’s Sevens World Series, we had experienced the highs in the sport. When all things are said and done though, you’ve got to...

14 June, 2021, 5:00 pm Fiji Rugby Union CEO, John O'Connor speaks to the media during a press conference at the Fiji Rugby Union boardroom in Suva on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. Picture: JONACANI LALAKOBAU The Fiji Rugby Union has three weeks until the end of the month to name the 26 players to play in the Olympic Games in Japan. The beleaguered 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be from Friday, July 23 to Sunday, August 8, in Tokyo has been experiencing difficulties in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now with the country recovering slowly from bouts of lockdowns and sports being suspended...

18 weeks away is a massive sacrifice in pursuit of the main prize at the Olympics next month-Gareth Baber, It’s ‘against the run of play’ to include overseas players who play 15s throughout, Let’s not include star players for the sake of it, it backfired in 2018....

Now the teens are taking the issue to the school board to demand change.

It's not odd for there to be a little drama when high school yearbooks are released at the end of the year, but at Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns County, Fla., the drama has reached national attention. That's because 80 of the students' portraits were digitally edited — many of them clumsily — to add more clothing to chests and shoulders. All of the students are female. None of them were consulted. Students and parents told local news outlets that they were shocked and embarrassed when they got their copies of the $100 yearbook last week. This is a before and after yearbook phot...