They came in their thousands to see her race, and the fans of Papua New Guinea's elite sprinter Toea Wisil went home happy after she retained her 100 metres title at the Pacific Games in Port Moresby.
When the Papua New Guinea team marches into the stadium at the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony in Australia in April, there will be one notable absentee: the track queen of the Pacific, Toea Wisil ...
Toea Wisil of Papua New Guinea finished the Pacific Mini Games with four gold medals after claiming two titles on the final day of athletics action in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. Toea ...