The karatedo national team, led by Karate Pilipinas Sports Federation, Inc. president Richard Lim, fifth from right, visits Consul General Arvin de Leon, fifth from left, at the Philippine Consulate in Turkey last week prior to their departure for Paris, France for Olympic Qualifying Tournament on...
Photo From Patrick Coo's Facebook account Fil-American Patrick Coo missed a berth in the Tokyo Olympics after yielding to veteran rivals in the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Bogota, Colombia over the weekend. Coo, the only Asian and youngest competitor at 19 years old, wound up 42 nd among 62...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Tuesday asked the Department of Health and the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo to help prized Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo to get vaccinated before he competes in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Yulo, currently training in Japan for more than a year now, has...
ABAP president Ricky Vargas Officials of the Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) are still waiting for the US visas of three Tokyo Olympics-bound boxers training in Thailand while it has given a go for another Olympian in Eumir Marcial to travel from Dubai to Colorado Springs...
This picture taken on May 11, 2021 shows Afghan-born refugee and karate competitor Asif Sultani talking to AFP at a training session as he competes for a place on the Refugee Olympic Team at the Tokyo Olympics in July. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP) Asif Sultani has been fighting his way to the...
With less than two months before the scheduled opening of the summer Olympics in Tokyo on July 21, Asahi Shimbun, one of the media sponsors, has published an editorial entitled, “Prime Minister Suga, please call off the Olympics.” Three reasons were cited for the call to cancel the Olympics. ...
Eumir Marcial (AIBA Photo) Tokyo Olympics-bound boxer Eumir Marcial suffered a stunning setback to Uzbekistan’s Jafarov Saidjamshid in their middleweight class (75kg) semifinal bout in the ASBC Elite Men and Women Boxing Championships Friday night, May 28, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The top...
The Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (ABAP) has succeeded in its efforts to bring Olympic middleweight qualifier Eumir Felix Marcial to the United States Olympic Boxing Training Center in Colorado Springs for the last stage of his preparations for Tokyo. Marcial was supposed to...
A screenshot from a video Hidilyn Diaz posted on her Facebook account Friday about her experience on her first jab of AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 last May 7 in Malaysia. As the government gave the first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 to members of the national team, Tokyo Olympics-bound...
A member of the national team receives her first dose of Sinovac vaccine at the Manila Prince Hotel Friday, May 28. (Photo by Manny Llanes) National athletes, coaches and officials bound to the Tokyo Olympics and the Vietnam Southeast Asian Games got their first dose of vaccine against COVID-19 on...
Mark Lester Durens, right, in his quarterfinal bout against Mansour Khalefah of Kuwait in the ASBC Elite Men and Women Boxing Championships in Dubai. (AIBA Photo) Josie Gabuco failed in her bid to advance in the gold medal match after she sustained a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to Uzbekistan’s Gulasal...
Carlos Yulo (MB File Photo) Carlos Yulo, one of the country’s brightest hopes to win the gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics, will not get vaccinated against COVID-19 – for now. Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP) President Cynthia Carrion disclosed this Friday, May 28, during the...
