ONOC President Kevan Gosper, Anne King, OSFO's Steve, Chet and Edwina met to discuss how both organisations are going to continue to collaborate. OSFO are keen to establish a more defined role in the region and know they can support ONOC with some of their work too.

OSFO is looking to employ an executive director for one day a week and funding for this is being sort from ASOIf and Olympic Solidarity. OSFO is seeking ONOC's support with this process.

After our very successful conference in 2006, plans are well under way for a combined event again in 2007 in American Samoa.

Minutes of the meeting are available should anyone be interested by emailing Edwina: e.ricci@sportingpulse.com

OSFO convened officially for the second time in Nadi, Fiji on May 11th. This event was hailed as a real success as 40 delegates from in excess of 15 sports took part in workshops and discussions.

We were fortunate enough to secure two lots of funding - the first from SPARQ (talent ID equipment and training) and SPORTSWORLD (travel and ticket agents). This meant we could fund our expenses and even entertain our NOC colleagues, who for years have entertained us.

We are looking forward to a more productive year as we look to secure funding for a part time Executive Director. Up until now all work has been done by Chet, Steve and Edwina. They will continue to be involved, but with a dedicated staff member, we will be able to offer the assistance and communciation required by sports to work more effectively in the region - stay tuned for updates on this.

20 International Sporting Federations with activities across the Pacific region used a meeting in Brisbane last week to formalise the establishment of an umbrella organisation to be known as the Olympic Sports Federations of Oceania (OSFO).

All federations should have submitted their overview reports to be included in the 2005 conference publication by now. Thanks to sports who provided images for the gallery. These have now been formatted and ready for release at the conference. The final program can be found in the downloads section of the website under "2005 Assembly Documents" along with the individual sport reports.

Please ensure you have confirmed your arrival and departure dates with ONOC. ONOC documents can also be found under the 2005 assembly documents.

We have received some images but require a lot more. Thanks to sports that have searched their archives and sent us an image that reflects their sport in the Oceania region. If you haven't sent an image then consider looking for one that reflects grassroots, one that reflects the elite (large crowd watching an Oceania Tournament or the like) and sport in remote areas. We would like to have at least twenty and only cucrrently have five - so please attend to this as a matter of priority. Thank football for this image.

NAURU, NEW ZEALAND A.C.T. STILL DOMINATING THE OCEANIA & PACIFIC LEAGUES

In League A -1, Once again Nauru produced some brilliant performances in this 5th round. Yukio Peter set a new Commonwealth Senior record in the 77kg category with 191kg clean & jerk.

See the rest of this article for more details and visit the Oceania weightlifting website at www.oceaniaweightlifting.com for all your weightlifting news and events.

08.07.05.- The 117th International Olympic Committee Session in Singapore voted today to include 26 of the 28 current Olympic sports on the Programme of the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012. The Session decided that Baseball and Softball will remain on the list of Olympic sports as noted in the Olympic Charter, Rule 46, but will not be on the programme for 2012. The two sports are, however, eligible for inclusion in the programme of the 2016 Games.

Our thoughts go to our friends at Oceania Baseball (Chet) and Oceania Softball (Bob)as they come to terms with what this means for their sports and programmes in the Pacific.