Football semi-final line-ups now known, Pacific Oceania's great start in tennis event, and Olympic officials are in Tahiti
Auckland come from behind to beat tough Cook Islanders
In football, Auckland City overcame a first-half scare to beat the Cook Islands' Nikao Sokattak 4-1 to make it three wins from three in Group B at the Oceania Champions League.
Stephen Willis' goal briefly threatened an upset before a brace from Gerard Garriga and goals for Joe Lee and Matt Ellis ensured top spot and a meeting with Central Coast FC of the Solomon Islands in Sunday's semi-final.
Auckland City, in blue, against Nikao Sokattak Photo: Shane Wenzlick / Phototek.nz
New Caledonia's Hienghène Sport play Tahiti's AS Vénus in the other semi-final on Sunday.
Meanwhile, following their semi-finals appearances at the recent Oceania Women's Nations Cup, Solomon Islands and Samoa have moved upwards in the latest FIFA world rankings.
Solomon Islands leaped 15 spots to 105 while Samoa move up 10 places to 99.
Tennis teams make winning starts
Pacific Oceania made the perfect start in their quest to win promotion in the Davis Cup by beating Iran 3-0 without dropping a set.
Vanuatu's Clement Mainguy won the opening rubber 6-4, 6-4 before the Northern Marianas' Colin Sinclair also won his rubber in straight sets.
The doubles pairing of Gillian Osmont of Tahiti and Brett Baudinet of the Cook Islands defeated their foes for a 3-0 win.
It was a partnership with a vast gulf in experience - Osmont was making his Davis Cup debut, Baudinet was playing in his 61st Davis Cup tie.
Pacific Oceania next play the United Arab Emirates, which lost its first match to Saudi Arabia.
Pacific Oceania's women's team have won two ties and lost one in their section of the Billie Jean King Cup, also being held in Vietnam.
The team started off with a 3-0 loss to higher ranked Thailand but bounced back with a 3-0 win over the Maldives - without the loss of a single game - and another 3-0 win, over Singapore.
They have one more group game, against Malaysia.
Olympic officials visiting Tahiti
The head of the organising committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will on Friday begin a five-day visit to French Polynesia.
It will be Tony Estanguet's first since Tahiti was chosen to stage the surfing competition.
He and his delegation will inspect Teahupoo which is one of the regular stops on the professional world surfing circuit.
Estanguet will also meet the authorities, sports people and locals, and conclude his stay with the signing of a convention formalising the event.
Meanwhile, the Outerknown Tahiti Pro 2022 surfing event has been postponed for two days in the hopes of getting larger waves.
Tournament director Renato Hickel has told the World Surf League swells of 2.5 metres are expected next week.
PNG marks great efforts of Games team
The Papua New Guinea Olympic Committee has celebrated Team PNG's efforts in the recent Birmingham Commonwealth Games.
Committee secretary-general Auvita Rapilla praised the team for their achievements which included a silver medal and several national records.
Rapilla said the Commonwealth Games are a very high-level competition and PNG's athletes had limited exposure over the last two years.
She said it was a very difficult two years for the country's athletes, who were trying to take part in the necessary competitions to prepare for such competition.
Team PNG competed in weightlifting, swimming, athletics, squash, table tennis and boxing.
Weightlifting silver medallist Morea Baru won Team's PNG's only medal in the men's 61kg.
