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RP matches last year's finish in Friendship Games |
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Source : staff
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Monday, 01 December 2008 05:02 |
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Although the country failed in its quest to win the overall title, the Philippine Team contingent to the 6th Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines-East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA) games was able to match last year’s finish.
In Sunday’s closing rites at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Sports Complex, young athletes from Puerto Princesa and Mindanao ended up with a decent fifth and sixth place finish in the overall medal tally.
Puerto Princesa hauled five gold, five silver and eight bronze medals while Mindanao plucked four gold, seven silver and four bronze medals for an accumulated medal harvest of 33 for Team Philippines.
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Wushu champ gives RP a reason to celebrate |
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Source : Staff
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:16 |
 Upon seeing the tiny athlete with a gold medal around his neck, passengers on the immigration queue broke into applause. Tourists posed with him for photos and a passenger pointed a kid to the medalist passing by. In a country deprived of Olympic joy when athletes from the regular sports failed in their courageous bid to land a medal, 24-year-old Willy Wang arrived Monday giving people who saw him at the airport reason to celebrate. “I am happy because we got a gold in the Olympics,” said Wang, who prepared just as hard—and as long—as the athletes who were counted on to deliver the country’s first Olympic gold medal. |
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Team RP tailender among ASEAN-5 |
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Source : Staff
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Monday, 25 August 2008 16:00 |
In the battle for Southeast Asian supremacy the Philippines was 0-0-0 in the leaderboard with Indonesia the winner with one gold, one silver and three bronze medals followed by Thailand with 1-1-0 and Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore with 0-1-0 each.
Indonesia showed its class in badminton, winning the gold in the men’s doubles through Markis Kido and Hendra Sitiawan, the silver in mixed doubles through Setiawan and Nova Widianto Liliyana, and the bronze through Maria Kristin Yulianti.
It also won the bronze in weightlifting (men’s 56kg and 62kg).
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24-hour bike endurance race in Muntinlupa |
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Source : Staff
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:35 |
The 24-hour Mountain Bike Endurance Race will be held today at the sprawling grounds of the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City.
The event is jointly sponsored by the city government, the Department of Tourism and the Bureau of Corrections.
Bikers from the city and other points are expected to join the race designed to promote “adventure tourism,” at the five-hectare New Bilibid Prison reservation that houses detention facilities apart from scenic spots.
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Arroyo unhappy over Beijing debacle |
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Source : Staff
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Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:25 |
He has not talked to her yet, but Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Butch Ramirez yesterday said that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is “not happy” because of the country’s Olympic medal shutout in Beijing.
The PSC head said he heard from very reliable sources of the President’s reaction after the athletes fell, one by one, by the wayside of the road to what was expected to the first ever Olympic gold medal.
The President personally rooted from the sidelines for the 15-member Olympic delegation during the opening ceremony.
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