Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) First Vice President Al Panlilio hopes athletes and coaches bound to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics late July would be vaccinated by next month. Panlilio, who heads the task force for vaccine procurement for athletes, said they are working with the International...
Hidilyn Diaz (MB File Photo) Filipino veteran weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz tries to formalize her entry to this year’s Tokyo Olympics as she competes in the Asian Weightlifting Championship Sunday, April 18, in Tashkent Uzbekistan. It took more than a year for the event to happen after it was called...
U.S. President Joe Biden (right) and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan hold a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 16, 2021 in Washington, DC. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) Japan's prime minister...
Hidilyn Diaz gestures during the women's weightlifting event of the 30th Southeast Asian Games last December 2019. (MB File Photo) Hidilyn Diaz leads eight other Filipinos as the 2021 Asian Weightlifting Championship, the region’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT), kicks off Saturday, April...
Olympic-bound athlete EJ Obiena joined the 65th anniversary celebration of the Japan-Philippines Friendship in a short video message posted at the Embassy of Japan in the Philippines’ Facebook page late Wednesday, April 14. “Hi, I’m Ernest John Obiena. I’m gonna be competing in the Summer...
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike stands next to the statues of Miraitowa, the official mascot for the Tokyo 2020/2021 Olympics Games to mark 100 days before the start of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo on April 14, 2021. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / POOL...
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) The Olympic flame is on its way across Japan and athletes around the world are ramping up training, but 100 days before Tokyo 2020...
(This file photo taken on September 7, 2013 shows International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge displaying the name of the city of Tokyo elected to host the 2020 Summer Olympics during a session of the IOC in Buenos Aires. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) From the unprecedented...
Rio Olympics silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz, left, with strength and condition coach Julius Naranjo and Chinese mentor Kaiwen Gao at the Tashkent International Airport in Uzbekistan. Diaz is set to compete in the Asian Weightlifting Championship on April 16 to 21, a qualifying tournament for the...
Winter Olympian and Filipino figure skater Michael Martinez (Photo from Michael Martinez's Instagram account) Figure skater Michael Martinez has launched a fundraiser in preparation for his 2022 Winter Olympics campaign in Beijing, China. Martinez, the first figure skater from Southeast Asia to...
Melcah Jen Caballero at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games (Photo from Melcah Jen Caballero's Facebook account) National rowers bound for Olympic qualification to the Tokyo Games are making the most out of their time and resources to prepare amid restrictions brought by the pandemic. Melcah Jen...
Rizal Memorial Coliseum (MB Photo / Ali Vicoy) The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is waiting for a directive from the Office of the President if it could lock down its facilities in Manila and Pasig City due to the rising COVID-19 cases of its employees. Sources said the government sports...
