People take pictures with the Olympic rings outside the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo on May 17, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) Searing heat, dripping humidity, and face masks: it's going to be a sweaty Tokyo Olympics and while coronavirus measures are top priority, heatstroke remains a serious...
Photo from Cris Nievarez's Facebook account Rower Cris Nievarez admitted to feeling the pressure of being the first athlete in the Philippine team to see action in the Tokyo Olympics late this month. Nievarez will debut in the men’s single sculls heats in the morning of July 23, a few hours...
Filipino weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz trains with strength and conditioning coach Julius Naranjo in Malacca City, Malaysia in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. (Screenshot from a documentary “Let’s Go HD!” by Kick-Start Coffee Brewed Awakening) Filipino weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz...
Tokyo-bound rower Cris Nievarez (left) and air rifle shooter Jayson Valdez Philippine Olympic Committee president Rep. Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino vividly remembers the successful partnership with Asics when Team Philippines captured the overall title of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. Tolentino...
Eumir Marcial With just two weeks to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, Filipino boxer Eumir Marcial said that he and the other 18 members of Team Philippines offer their campaign to the men and women that lost their lives in a tragic C-130 plane crash last week. “We offer our best...
Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike holds the Olympic flame during the unveiling ceremony of the Olympic flame at the Komazawa Olympic Park General Sports Ground on the first day of the torch relay in Tokyo on July 9, 2021. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday but...
EJ Obiena and Kiyomi Watanabe Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Bambol Tolentino announced Thursday, July 8, that pole vaulter EJ Obiena and judoka Kiyomi Watanabe will be the country’s flag-bearers to the Tokyo Olympics set July 23 to Aug. 3. Tolentino reiterated all 19 Filipino...
Photo from EJ Obiena's Facebook page EJ Obiena jumped to a career-high No. 6 in the pole vault world rankings ahead of his Tokyo Olympics campaign late this month. Obiena climbed from No. 10 after successful campaigns in various international competitions where he reset his national outdoor record...
Chris Paul of the Phoenix Suns talks to Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns during the game against the Milwaukee Bucks during Game One of the 2021 NBA Finals on July 6, 2021 at Phoenix Suns Arena in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by ANDREW D. BERNSTEIN / NBAE / Getty Images / Getty Images via AFP) Phoenix...
The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) announced Wednesday, July 7, its partnership with Asics as the official outfitter of the PH team bound to the Tokyo Olympics this month. POC President Bambol Tolentino hopes this renewal of partnership would translate a similar success when the country won the...
This file photo taken on March 26, 2021 shows torchbearer Rio Suzuki (right), a junior high school student, receiving the flame of the Olympic torch at the start of the second day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games torch relay at Somanakamura Shrine in the town of Soma, Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo by...
Ormoc City Mayor and Philippine Fencing Association president Richard Gomez, right, tries to score against national team member Noelito Jose Jr. during pool play of men's epee in the first leg of the National Open Fencing Championship last Saturday at the Superdome in Ormoc City. (City Government...
