1. EJ OBIENA (athletics) – Obiena, 25, became the first Filipino athlete to qualify to the Tokyo Olympics after hitting the Olympic pole vault standard of 5.81 meters in a Pole Vault meet in Chiara, Italy in 2019. Ranked No. 10 in the world, Obiena has...
PH foreign coach sent home for suspected COVID (FILES) In this file photo taken on March 24, 2020, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame is displayed outside Fukushima railway station, Fukushima Prefecture.(Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) TOKYO — The coronavirus health scare, which has reportedly...
Filipino fencer Samantha Catantan, right, and national fencing team head coach Amat Canlas at the Asia-Oceania Olympic Qualifying Tournament last April in Uzbekistan. (Photo courtesy of Amat Canlas) Finally, after a year of waiting, the Tokyo Olympics is set to formally on Friday, July 23. Filipino...
Carlos Yulo (Photo from FIG's Twitter account) TOKYO — Acrobatic wonder Carlos Yulo may have to dispense with his most potent weapon — the triple back double front move — when he takes the floor in the gymnastics competition of the 2020 Olympic Games on Saturday, July 24, at the Ariake...
Coach Ed Maerina, right, with Cris Nievarez (Photo from Philippine Rowing Association) The surreal atmosphere still amazes rowing coach Ed Maerina even after 33 years since he last set foot in the Olympic stage. This time, he is not competing, but coaching one of the country’s promising athletes...
KRISTINA KNOTT (athletics) Kristina Knott Her participation in the 200-meter race will make Knott the first Filipina sprinter in the Summer Games since Lerma Bulauitan competed in the century dash at Melbourne in 2000. Since representing the Philippines in 2018, Knott, whose mother hails from...
People gather near the Olympic Rings to take pictures of the Blue Impulse aerobatic demonstration team of Japan Air Self-Defence Force flying over the Olympic Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, during a rehearsal in Tokyo on July 21, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG...
MB File Photo TOKYO – A coach of Team Philippines will be sent home following back-and-forth false positive and negative tests for COVID-19, Philippine Olympic Committee president Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino revealed during a mini conference at the CONRAD Tokyo on Thursday. The daily...
A Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games banner is displayed on the wall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) Four competitors including a shooting world number one saw their Tokyo Olympic dreams dashed on Wednesday after testing positive...
The Olympic rings at the waterfront in Tokyo on December 1, 2020. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) Guinea cancelled its participation in the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the west African state's sports minister announced. However, a source close to the government in...
POC President Bambol Tolentino (MB Photo / Alvin Kasiban) Philippine Olympic Committee president Bambol Tolentino arrived here Wednesday afternoon, two days before the opening of the 2020 Olympic Games, and spoke of a milestone prospect — another multi-medal performance in the quadrennial global...
TOKYO — The reported foot injury suffered by national boxer Irish Magno while skipping rope during training Monday was labelled as nothing more than a “misstep” by Team Philippines’ Dr. Randy Molo. “No need for x-rays,” Molo, an orthopedic surgeon, said on Wednesday. “I gave her some...
