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![Sanele Mao won a gold medal in weightlifting for Samoa. [Photo: AFP or licensors via RNZI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_000_13U10K.jpg?itok=9ZYKylyQ "Sanele Mao won a gold medal in weightlifting for Samoa. [Photo: AFP or licensors via RNZI]")
Apia, SAMOA — Team Samoa Chef de Mission Nynette Sass says the 2018 Commonwealth Games can be a launching pad for sport in the country after the team finished highest of the Pacific nations competing at the games.
Samoa finished in 17th place on the overall medal tally on the Gold Coast, winning...
![An emotional Feagaiga Stowers at Monday's medal ceremony. [ GETTY IMAGES via Stuff NZ]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/STOWERS%20WEIGHTLIFTER.jpg?itok=L9HERCC6 "An emotional Feagaiga Stowers at Monday's medal ceremony. [ GETTY IMAGES via Stuff NZ]")
Gold Coast City, AUSTRALIA — Samoa won't top the medal table at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games but a trio of weightlifters gave the island nation its day in the sun on Monday.
Sanele Mao and Feagaiga Stowers hoisted their way to gold medals on day five of the 2018 Games.
Their medals were just...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to compete in the Commonwealth Games – despite Australia and Samoa’s forceful objections.
Hubbard, 40, was named to the New Zealand women’s weightlifting team in November, sparking backlash within the sport.
The athlete, who...
![Iuniarra Sipaia of Samoa competes in the women's +75kg final during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [photo: AFP via RNZI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Pac%20News%20weightlifter.jpg?itok=ed5SXiwx "Iuniarra Sipaia of Samoa competes in the women's +75kg final during the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [photo: AFP via RNZI]")
Apia, SAMOA — Samoan weightlifter Iuniarra Sipaia has been cleared of any wrongdoing after mistakenly taking a banned substance.
But the decision by the International Weightlifting Federation has come too late for the 24-year-old to compete at the Commonwealth Games.
Iuniarra Sipaia was originally...