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...
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...
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) Japan will extend a coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and other areas on Friday until just a month before the Olympics, in a...
Around 700 athletes and officials of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Manila Prince Hotel in Manila on Friday, May 28. JABBED --Olympian Cris Nievarez was among the 700 athletes and officials of the Philippine Olympic Committee...
8637 Filipino boxer Eumir Marcial booked a spot in the semifinal round and has assured himself of a bronze medal in the ASBC Elite Men and Women Boxing Championships Wednesday night, May 26 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Tokyo Olympics-bound Marcial moved to the semifinal round after his...
