Samoa loses Pacific Games

Samoa loses Pacific Games

APIA (AFP): Samoa lost its bid to host the 2003 South Pacific
Games to Fiji because of its lack of sporting facilities and for
boycotting the games in 1987 and in 1995, a senior official said
Monday.

Seiuli Paul Wallwork, secretary of Youth, Sports, and Culture,
said in an interview with government radio that Samoa had
promised in its bid for the 1995 games to build a synthetic
track, a swimming pool and another gymnasium.

But none of them were built. He said representatives of the
South Pacific countries at the mini games in American Samoa had
asked him, "'Have you built all those things you promised that
year?' The answer was no.