25 May 2007

Cook Islands set to send big team to Apia

10:03 am on 25 May 2007

The Cook Islands is set to enter its biggest sporting team ever for an event with the deadline for team entries for the South Pacific Games early next week.

It's aiming to send nearly 240 athletes and officials, representing 17 sports, to Samoa in late August

Cook Islands Chef De Mission, Paul Allsworth, says the team will be twice the size of the one which competed at the last games in Fiji.