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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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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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PSC head bats for ‘radical’ change in Philippine sports |
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Source : Staff
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Saturday, 16 August 2008 12:48 |
 FOR Philippine Sports Commission Chairman William “Butch” Ramirez, there’s no excuses to Filipino boxer Harry Tañamor’s setback in the Beijing Olympics.
No ifs and no buts.
“He [Tañamor] lost to a better and much prepared fighter,” said Ramirez during yesterday’s teleconference at the PSC Olympic media center. “I don’t know what’s on the minds of the coaching staff, but the African champion was simply too much for Tañamor. His preparation was well-planned and his strategy really hurt our fighter.”
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Zambo lifter tries mettle versus world’s strongest |
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Source : Staff
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Monday, 11 August 2008 04:32 |
 A 17-year-old girl who used to carry buckets of water from the artesian well to take a bath and wash the dishes, will try to lift real weights as she matches up against the strongest women of the world in the Beijing Olympics tomorrow.
Hidilyn Diaz, who had to quit computer science studies at the Unibersidad de San Juan in her native Zamboanga to train for the Olympics, hopes the six-month training she had carrying weights in China under world-class coaches would help her win what could be the breakthrough medal of a hard-luck RP team which went without a medal during the last eight years.
"The training in China was terrible. – one hour jogging in the morning, three hours of weightlifting in the afternoon and another one-hour jog in the evening," said the 5-2 Zamboangueña, who was discovered by Philippine Sports Commission chairman William "Butch" Ramirez in the Philippine Olympic Festival where she made an impressive lift to win the gold.
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