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...
Cris Nievarez in action TOKYO — A fiber-glass boat measuring 8.2 meters long and weighing around 14kgs will help launch on Friday, July 23, the Philippines’ campaign in the pandemic-delayed 2020 Olympic Games at the placid Sea Forest Waterway. Propelling the long, narrow oar-powered shell,...
Margielyn Didal gets to experience what it feels like skating at the Ariake Urban Sports Park, the skateboarding venue for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in Japan. Margielyn Didal (right) with manager and skate filmmaker Anthony Claravall (Photo from Skate Pilipinas' Instagram account) Located near the...
Gilas Pilipinas (FIBA photo) The Gilas Pilipinas men’s basketball team goes high gear with its buildup for the FIBA Asia Cup after confirming its participation in the 2021 King Abdullah Cup in Jordan scheduled from July 25 to August 3 The event organized by the Jordan Basketball Federation has so...
HIDILYN DIAZ Hidilyn Diaz This edition of the Tokyo Olympics is Hidilyn Diaz’s fourth straight stint, and the weightlifter is one of the country’s best hopes to finally win the first gold medal in the Summer Games. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, the native of Zamboanga City bagged the silver medal...
Staff members of Olympic Broadcasting Services set up broadcasting equipments at the Aomi Urban Sports Park, the main venue for 3x3 basketball during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games, in Tokyo, on July 19, 2021. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) There'll be no fans in the stands, and less media on the...
This handout picture taken and released on July 21, 2021 by the International Olympic Committee shows World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (left) receiving the Olympic torch from International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach during the second day...
In this photo, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz (center) meets national boxing team members Carlo Paalam (from left), Nesthy Petecio, and Eumir Felix Marcial at Tokyo's Olympic Village (Photo from Hidilyn Diaz) TOKYO — After months of intense training and campaigning to qualify for the 2020 Summer...
