111219_SEAG-CLOSING-PARADE_02_riodeluvio-1024x619 National athletes, coaches and officials bound for the Tokyo Olympics and the Vietnam Southeast Asian Games are scheduled for vaccination on Friday, May 28, at the Manila Prince Hotel. Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Bambol Tolentino...
(Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) The United States warned its citizens Monday not to travel to Olympic host Japan, citing the growing risk of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Asian nation just two months before the Games begin. The warning came in a travel advisory issued by the State Department as...
Eumir Marcial Tokyo Olympics-bound boxer Eumir Marcial has earned a bye as he moved to the quarterfinal at the start of the ASBC Elite Men and Women Boxing Championships Monday night, May 24 in Dubai. The 25-year-old Marcial, the top seed among the 12 participants in the 75-kilogram middleweight...
People take pictures with the Olympic rings outside the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo on May 17, 2021. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) Japan opened its first mass vaccination centres on Monday in a bid to speed up a cautious COVID-19 inoculation programme with just two months until the virus-postponed...
Richard Gomez Ormoc City Mayor Richard Gomez said that the sports facilities in their area are available for national athletes with disabilities as they prepare for the ASEAN Para Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. Gomez, a former national athlete, said that the Philippine fencing team will have their bubble...
Simone Biles competes on the beam during the 2021 GK U.S. Classic gymnastics competition at the Indiana Convention Center on May 22, 2021 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Emilee Chinn / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) US gymnastics superstar Simone Biles returned to...
Photo from Jordan Taekwondo Federation Kurt Barbosa became the ninth Filipino to qualify to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics after winning in the semifinals of the Asian Taekwondo Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan Saturday night, May 22. Barbosa, a 2019 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist,...
Photo from Pauline Lopez's Facebook account Pauline Lopez missed her chance of making it into the Tokyo Olympics after bowing in the quarterfinals at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan Saturday, May 22. Lopez succumbed to 2018 Asian Games bronze medalist Laetitia Aoun of Lebanon,...
Photo from Eumir Marcial's Facebook account Thirdy Ravena fulfilled his promise to help Eumir Marcial by sending the Olympic-bound boxer a pair of shoes and supplements. Marcial expressed gratitude towards Ravena after receiving a pair of Nike training shoes, two large bottles of whey and eight...
Photo from Arven Alcantara's Instagram account The Philippine taekwondo team suffered an early blow in the Asian Qualification Tournament to the Tokyo Olympics Friday, May 21, after Arven Alcantara was dealt a first-round defeat in Amman, Jordan. Seeking one of the two berths at stake in the...
Senator Francis Tolentino lauded on Friday, May 21, the government's pandemic task force for approving the vaccination of athletes set to join the Tokyo Olympics and the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. "I thank the IATF (Interagency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Disease) for heeding the...
Richard W. Pound gives a press conference on the third day of the 119th International Olympic Committee Session in Guatemala City. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) The International Olympic Committee's longest serving member assured Thursday that the Tokyo Games are "a go," as IOC officials...
