Wushu sanda artist Arnel Mandal bags the Philippines’ first silver medal in the Asian Games 2023. –JUNE NAVARRO HANGZHOU, CHINA—Arnel Mandal will bring home a silver medal for Team Philippines in wushu, the country’s first at the Asian Games here. The former Filipino world champion threw volume punches and aggressively clinched in a drastic bid … Read more
Philippines’ Kayla Noelle Sanchez competes during the women’s 100m freestyle swimming heat at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) HANGZHOU, China—So far, swimmer Kayla Noelle Sanchez hasn’t delivered with her first four events as a National in the 19th Asian Games resulting in two individual national records … Read more
PH Blu Girls.–CONTRIBUTED PHOTO MANILA, Philippines–The Philippine Blu Girls rolled to an 11-0 romp of Thailand in just four innings on Tuesday for a winning start to their bid for a breakthrough medal finish in women’s softball competitions of the Hangzhou Asian Games. Leaning on five runs in the first inning and limiting Thailand to … Read more
Kayla Sanchez competes in the women’s 50m backstroke at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.–ASIAN GAMES POOL PHOTO HANGZHOU, China—Kayla Sanchez checked in sixth in the women’s 50m backstroke finals on Monday in the 19th Asian Games at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Aquatic Sports Arena. But the 22-year-old transferee from Canada isn’t losing hope, … Read more
FILE–Jocel Ninobla. HANGZHOU, China—Should luck and the judges’ admiration come to their aid, poomsae aces Jocel Lyn Ninobla and King Patrick Perez might well be the first Filipinos on the medal stand of the 19th Asian Games. Both of them Southeast Asian Games champions early this year, Perez is No. 4 in the rankings of … Read more
Dillon Brooks was greeted with boos each time he took the ground for Canada on the 2023 FIBA World Cup. When he exited the courtroom for the final time in Manila, Philippines, he was met with chants of “MVP” as an alternative. Brooks had the sport of his life on Sunday, main Canada to certainly … Read more
US President Joe Biden has awarded the nation’s highest army medal to a Vietnam Conflict helicopter pilot who disregarded a direct order. Retired Military Capt Larry Taylor, now 81, flew his Cobra helicopter right into a firefight to rescue 4 US troops from close to sure demise in 1968. He had been ordered to return … Read more
FILE-The Philippines’ Irish Magno celebrates after successful towards Kenya’s Christine Ongare on the finish of their ladies’s fly (48-51kg) preliminaries boxing match through the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Kokugikan Enviornment in Tokyo on July 25, 2021. (Photograph by Luis ROBAYO / POOL / AFP) MANILA, Philippines—Irish Magno and Riza Pasuit assured themselves … Read more