Kia ora, Talofa, Ma’lelei, Bula, Aloha and Welcome to Season 09 Episode 79 of Breakfast Bites, by TEIVOVOdigital.com – a wrap of Pasifika people’s sports news, on Wednesday morning 26 June 2024 where it is 21 degrees Celsius at 5am.
 
Coming to you with tons of hanisi from the 180th meridian, in the middle of the blue continent.
 
In Rugby Union: Former NRL, Fiji Bati and Fiji rugby union 7s star, Jarryd Hayne will not face a fourth trial over the alleged sexual assault of a woman on the night of the 2018 Grand Final.
 
This after the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said on Tuesday it had determined another trial would not proceed.

Justice Deborah Sweeney, one of the judges who decided the appeal in Hayne’s favour two to one, had said that in light of “the history of this matter, to put the applicant on trial for a fourth time would not be in the interests of justice”.

Hayne’s first trial ended in a hung jury and he successfully appealed his convictions after the second trial.

So what’s the bet, Haynes seeks compensation from the NSW judiciary for their handling of his initial prosecutions!

In rugby league: Broncos NRL Premiership winner Gorden Tallis, is backing South Sydney to make one of the most improbable runs to the finals in NRL history.

The Rabbitohs lost nine of their first 10 games this season to sit dead last after Round 11, having sacked their coach Jason Demetriou.

But the Bunnies have since won four on the trot and with a 5-9 record they are 14th on the ladder and just two wins outside the top eight.

And in football - the latest EURO 2024 results: Albania 0-1 Spain, Croatia 1-1 Italy, Netherlands 2-3 Austria, France 1-1 Poland, England vs Slovenia in Cologne and Denmark vs Serbia in Munich – both these games at 8pm GMT.
 
The last pool games tomorrow starting at 5pm GMT: Slovakia vs Romania in Frankfurt. Ukraine vs Belgium in Stuttgart, Georgia vs Portugal at Gelsenkirchen and Czech Republic vs Turkey in Hamburg. Both these games at 8pm GMT.
 
In Combat Sports: Mexican boxer Moises Calleros has been given a four-year ban by the UK Anti-Doping Agency after he tested positive for cocaine following his loss to Galal Yafai at the O2 Arena in London on the undercard of a Anthony Joshua fight last year, but HELLO . . the Mexican died three months ago!

In Ice Hockey: The NHL capped one of its greatest season’s after the Panthers fought off one of the most improbable of Game 7 comebacks in the Stanley Cup Final, by the Oilers, who forced a Game 7 in Florida, home of the Panthers, after dropping the first three games of the series!

The finals series capped significant gains for the NHL - among them:
·       An average of 1.3 million US viewers per game for the first three rounds of the playoffs, up by 14% from a year ago and the best such figure since 1996.
·       Record-level attendance in the regular season of 22.56 million, with games on average played to 97% venue capacity. 
·       Another league record for annual revenue of US$6.2Billion, thanks to the record attendance total, plus gains in media and sponsorship.

And only in the USA: Legendary Rapper, Snoop Dogg ran a 200M exhibition race at the 2024 US Olympic Trials and recorded a time of 34.44secs, after which he was quoted telling journalists and fans, “For a 52-year-old, that ain’t bad.”
 
And that’s a wrap peeps!
 
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