Pacific Games Advance Teams arrive in PNG

The first of the 2015 Pacific Games team officials arrived in the country on Thursday..
They are the advance party for team Vanuatu and Tahiti, here for Delegation Registration Meeting’s
before the actual teams of athletes and officials start arriving next week.
Team Vanuatu’s, seven member team arrived at midday on Wednesday, while Tahiti’s six member team
including its Chef de Mission and the Cook Islands party arrived on Thursday.
This is the first of several other teams who are expected to arrive in the next few days.
Australia’s advance party will arrive on the 29th while American Samoa’s will arrive on the 30th.
The DRM’s involve the registration of the team athletes and officials and includes a check in process
for the team at the Games village.
The forward team will make sure the necessary preparatory arrangements by the Games Organising
Committee (GOC) are in place before their teams come in.
GOC CEO Peter Stewart said “We are so excited to be welcoming the first representatives of our
teams to the village. We served over 80 meals for the first time in the village dining hall last night, so
our Games village is open for business”.
The first lot of athletes are expected to arrive on the 28th of June and they will be from Cook Islands.
The advance teams including an observer delegation from Samoa 2015 Commonwealth Youth
Games are residing at the Games village, making them the first occupants of the brand new facility.