Fiji Sun

Lifters Train for Online Event

- SIMIONE HARAVANUA Edited by Leone Cabenatabu­a

Weightlift­ing Fiji athletes are training in small bubbles in preparatio­n for an Online Competitio­n.

This was confirmed yesterday by coach Henry Elder.

“There will be an internatio­nal club competitio­n that will be run by Fiji, United States of America, Australia along with other countries and it will be an online competitio­n,” Elder said.

“The competitio­n will happen via Zoom. We’ve a few coaches who have been notified. This include those in other parts of the world. We had a trial run a few weeks ago and it was a success. We had a few more trial runs in the United States, which was also great.

Now that the gym is open, Elder said, they had a few things to sort out in regards of being compliant to Government’s COVID-19 regulation­s.

“Once that is done we will be able to train openly just like other federation­s,” he said.

“So we are waiting for that to happen and then will officially start.”

 ?? Photo: ?? National weightlift­ing rep Merewalesi Vusonitoka­lau was back at training at the national Fitness Centre in Suva on June 23, 2020.
Ronald Kumar
Photo: National weightlift­ing rep Merewalesi Vusonitoka­lau was back at training at the national Fitness Centre in Suva on June 23, 2020. Ronald Kumar

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