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Alena Saili wins gold
Alena Saili, a proud Samoan and New Zealand Black Fern, enjoyed sharing her 2024 Paris Olympic Rugby 7s Gold Medal with the crowd at Stade de France, Saint-Denis, Paris, France.  Alena also won Gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.  [photo by Barry Markowitz]
Mr Lionel Fatu Elika
PARIS (AP) — The team manager of the top-seeded men’s heavyweight boxer at the Paris Olympics died at the athletes village in Saint-Denis. Lionel Fatu Elika died on Friday morning local time at the village, the Oceania regional group of Olympic national committees said in a statement on behalf of...
Moemoana Safa’ato’a Schwenke 2024-2025 (ogatotonu) ma le Tausala o Amerika Samoa, Pauliana Angelfromheaven Felise-Vitale 2024 (lona lua mai i le itu taumatau) faapea le Tausala o le Mosooi 2024, Naleigh Hudson
O se va’aiga i le Tausala o le Pasefika, Moemoana Safa’ato’a Schwenke 2024-2025 (ogatotonu) ma le Tausala o Amerika Samoa, Pauliana Angelfromheaven Felise-Vitale 2024 (lona lua mai i le itu taumatau) faapea le Tausala o le Mosooi 2024, Naleigh Hudson (lona lua mai i le itu tauagavale) faatasi ma...
Miss Tausala America 2024 contestants
O se va’aiga i tausala lalelei e to’alima sa tausinio mo le pale o le “Miss Tausala America 2024” lea na fa’ataunu’uina i le fa’ai’uga o le vaiaso na se’i mavae atu nei, i le setete o Las Vegas, i Amerika. [ata foa’i]
Filomenaleonisa Iakopo and her mother Priscilla
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two athletes will be competing under the American Samoa flag in next month’s 2024 Summer Olympics to be held in Paris, France — sprinter Filomenaleonisa Iakopo and swimmer Micah Masei. This will be Filomenaleonisa’s first Olympics while Micah is the first two-time...
Portland/ Vancouver Tausala Manaia dancers
Gaoioi Poumele, right, joins other audience members in showering the Portland/ Vancouver Tausala Manaia dancers with money as they perform at the Samoan Festival held Saturday, July 13, 2024, at Peninsula Park in North Portland. She had three children performing in the group, ages 11, 7, and 5. [...
Tama Fanau a Nuuuli i Alaska
Tama Fanau a Nuuuli i Alaska was invited by the Polynesian Association of Alaska to participate in their 4th of July Parade in Anchorage, AK and received the Outstanding Showmanship 2024 trophy representing their beautiful village with their Manulele Tausala float. [courtesy photo]  
crowds of supporters lining the shoreline
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Eight fautasi long boats took to the sea for the second time this year yesterday for the Bluesky 25th Anniversary 4th of July Regatta. The race was not a smooth-glass ride for the captains and crews, with at least one fautasi out of the race before it was even held, and...
Super Grans
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — SuperGran mentors share their knowledge and skills with people in their communities through the concept of kaitiaki — a guardian, a person who has been given a responsibility to protect something, especially nature or the environment: Traditionally, Maori held that each bend...
Lavata'i brothers
Polynesian Fire is a live music and luau dinner show in Myrtle Beach, North Carolina. It features the Lavata’i brothers, who were born and raised in the village of Nu’uuli, American Samoa. The brothers learned the art of Samoan fire knife dancing in 2002, training with HC Olo “Freddie” Uluao...

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