WILMER JOEL A Japanese man ran the Majuro equivalent of a marathon — the 30 mile distance from Laura to Rita — this past Saturday. The run was timed for his birthday. Makito Murai, 41, who is from Tokyo, Japan, completed a six-hour Laura-Rita run as a way of saying farewell to Majuro. Murai’s “supporter,” […]
TERRY SASSER* The July 23 Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which took place a year later than planned, was described by global media outlets as “muted,” “somber,” “subdued,” “overshadowed by a pandemic, but defined by hope, tradition and gestures of diversity.” Rio Olympian swimmer Colleen Furgeson, modeling a traditional Marshallese costume provided […]
In spite of the continued global Covid-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, which have already denied several Oceania countries the opportunity to participate in the Olympics, Marshall Islands will have a team at the rescheduled 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games in Tokyo next month. Rio Olympian and recent Lincoln College graduate Colleen Furgeson will again represent […]
Marshall Islands weightlifter Mattie Sasser, now competing for Team USA, has done it again. Earlier this week at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru she set three new American weightlifting records for her 64kg (141 pounds) weight category on her way to winning a silver medal. She came in second in a field of […]
