Filipino fencer Samantha Catantan continues with her training at a quarantine facility after arriving from the US recently. She is preparing for the National Open Fencing Championships on July 3 to 11 in Ormoc City. (Photo from Samantha Catantan) After impressive stints in various international...
Screen grab from tournament livestream at sportschau.de Pole vaulter EJ Obiena bolstered his Tokyo Olympics preparations on Sunday after sharing the gold medal with reigning Olympic champion Thiago Braz of Brazil in the True Athletes Classics in Leverkusen, Germany. Obiena and Braz both cleared...
Dottie Ardina (AFP) Dottie Ardina of the Philippines jumped to solo sixth place in the leaderboard following an impressive four-under-par 68 performance in the third round of the KPMG Women’s PGA Saturday (Sunday in Manila) at the Highlands Course of the Atlanta Athletic Club in Georgia. After...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cast a giant shadow on the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games. With less than a month left, anxiety over the possibility that foreign athletes and journalists could be carriers of the emerging deadly Delta variant has been added to the hosts’ long list of...
Kristina Knott (MB File Photo) Kristina Knott’s dream doesn’t stop at just earning a berth to the Tokyo Olympics next month. The Fil-American sprinter said she is determined to make the most out of her experience at the grandest sports stage in the world despite facing tall odds in her event,...
Filipino shooter Jayson Valdez considers qualifying to the Tokyo Olympics a blessing in disguise after setting aside his plans to join the Philippine Army. Filipino shooter Jayson Valdez (Photo from PSC) Call it a divine intervention of some sort, Valdez said the qualifiers have become a test of...
Olympic-bound skateboarder Margielyn Didal is ready to unleash all the tricks up her sleeves when she competes in the 2021 Tokyo Games next month. Margielyn Didal (Handout) National team coach Dani Bautista said they have been working on Didal's late flip-outs and 360 flip-outs, to name a few, to...
Olympic Rings are seen a the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, amid the spread of the COVID-19. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) Japan's prime minister on Friday dismissed claims that the country's emperor is "concerned" the Tokyo Olympics could spread the...
Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets grabs the loose ball as Jrue Holiday of the Milwaukee Bucks defends in the first half during game seven of the Eastern Conference second round at Barclays Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by ELSA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) Brooklyn...
Kristina Knott (left) and Kiyomi Watanabe Sprinter Kristina Knott and judoka Kiyomi Watanabe became the latest Filipino athletes to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics scheduled to start exactly 30 days from now. According to worldathletics.org, Knott earned a berth through universality place in the...
Juvic Pagunsan Veteran golfer Juvic Pagunsan has officially made it to the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the 13th Filipino that will see action in Japan on July 23 to August 8. The announcement came Tuesday, June 22, after the International Golf Federation (IGF) released the official 60 entries from the...
People take pictures with the Olympic rings outside the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo on May 17, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) The Tokyo Olympics have weathered a historic postponement, an unprecedented ban on overseas fans and persistent domestic opposition, but with one month to go, the...
