HANGZHOU, China – Interim Gilas coach Tim Cone knows his business so well and also knows how important is the Asian Games to million of Filipino basketball fans. Interim Gilas coach Tim Cone (PBA Images) Without the luxury of a long and intensive preparation for this year’s event that the...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- Hosts China won the first eSports gold medal in the 72-year history of the Asian Games on Tuesday, Sept. 26, as Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey issued another warning for next year's Paris Olympics. Gold medalist Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey poses during the medals ceremony of...
Gilas Pilipinas kept its record pristine after turning back Chinese Taipei, 17-12, in the men’s 3x3 basketball tournament of the 19th Asian Games at the Deqing Geographic Information Park Basketball Court on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Bismarck Lina came up huge in the waning seconds as the Nationals led...
HANGZHOU, China – What a difference a day can make. After an almost effortless win in the second round, Alex Eala was challenged to max on Tuesday, Sept. 26, but still got the job done in the tennis competition of the 19th Asian Games here. Alex Eala (PSC-POC Media Pool ) Thanks to her...
Gilas Pilipinas opened its 19th Asian Games bid in style, cruising past Bahrain, 89-61, in the men's basketball event at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Justin Brownlee lead the way for Gilas Pilipinas (PSC-POC Media Pool) The Nationals didn't look like a team...
Kursten Lopez and Ancilla Lucia Mari Manzano made their medal campaigns felt at the 19 th Asian Games after qualifying in the all-around and vault finals, respectively, in artistic gymnastics on Monday night in China. Ancilla Manzano was the lone Filipina to qualify to the finals in the women's...
HANGZHOU, China – Incredibly proud. That was how Fil-Canadian swimmer Kayla Sanchez felt after making two in a row in the 19th Asian Games here. Fil-Canadian swimmer Kayla Sanchez (AFP) Not in the podium but for setting new Philippine records in two times she saw action. In Monday’s...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- ESports tickets costing up to $137 are like gold dust at the Asian Games with desperate fans signing up multiple times through a lottery system in hope of seeing their gaming heroes live. South Korean e-sports player Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok (center) and his colleagues salute the...
HANGZHOU, China – A group of media men from Thailand roared and chanted something in sheer delight inside the massive Main Media Center of the 19th Asian Games late Monday, Sept. 25, when taekwondo jin Panipak Wongpattanakit won the country’s first gold. EJ Obiena (File photo from EJ...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- Between 150 and 200 Asian Games athletes have already been tested for doping, the Olympic Council of Asia said on Monday, Sept. 25, with no positive results so far. Speaking at an anti-doping press conference on the second full day of the Games in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the...
HANGZHOU (AFP) -- World champion Qin Haiyang surged to the world's second fastest time this year and the Asian Games 100m breaststroke title on Monday, Sept. 25, while star freestyler Siobhan Haughey clinched Hong Kong's first-ever swimming gold medal. Winner China's Qin Haiyang celebrates his...
HANGZHOU, China – Fil-Canadian Kayla Sanchez summoned every ounce of her energy in the hope of breaking the so-called Great of Wall of China in the women’s 50-meter backstroke of the swimming competitions in the Asian Games on Monday, Sept. 25, here. But again, she failed....
