The Fiji Commonwealth Games team are targeting medals in rugby sevens and weightlifting, their chef de mission says.
The Fiji women's Sevens team for the Commonwealth Games. Photo: Fiji Olympic Committee
The games begin tomorrow on Australia's Gold Coast with the biggest ever team from Fiji featuring 97 athletes competing in 12 sports.
Fiji was banned from the games in 2010 for failing to hold elections and were only allowed to send a small number of competitors to the last games in 2014.
Chef de mission Patrick Bower said his team had been welcomed in Australia.
"It really is a special feeling, just wonderful to come to a games that is so well organised. They're making you feel so at home," Bower said.
"The games village is second to none, they have absolutely everything in place."
Fiji's lawn bowlers arrived in the village first followed by some of its swimmers, who have been training with top Australian coaches at Queensland's Griffith University, Bower said.
The Fiji men's sevens team will land on the Gold Coast following this weekend's Hong Kong Sevens where they are targeting an unprecedented four tournament wins in a row.
"We've not featured a gold for the sevens at the Commonwealth Games which is surprising because Fiji does so well," Bower said.
"We're looking confidently particularly at the men that they may be able to achieve this," he said.
"Also weightlifting is doing fairly well and looks as if we may be able to get a gold or two for the weightlifters."
