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As the Women's World Cup continues in France we meet the female commentators from Fiji and Vanuatu making history.

Adele Willie, Jennesa Hinge Moli and Lavenia Yalovi, have been breaking new ground for women in the region, by broadcasting radio commentary of New Zealand's games in the languages of Bislama, iTaukei Fijian and Pacific English to listeners across the South Pacific. The three women are graduates of a training programme held in Fiji to help develop female sports commentators across the South Pacfic and were invited to the tournament by FIFA.

There's no United States team at the Cricket World Cup which is is of course the summer sport of choice for most Americans. But there was a time when cricket occupied that place. Could it do so again, and how transferable are the skills? Could a major league baseball player become a top cricketer? Richard Fleming in Colorado has been investigating.

Track and Field Athletics is regarded as the most pure of sports - running, jumping, throwing; it's also one of the most widely practiced. But the sport is being shaken-up at the European Games, which get underway in Minsk this weekend.

Under the "Dynamic New Athletics" or DNA format, field events will be knock-out competitions. We talk to the men behind this innovation.

And we're in Cairo as Football's Africa Cup of Nations gets underway.

Photo: Adele Willie, Lavenia Yalovi, Jennesa Hinge Moli (Aaron Kearney)