Thirsty for redemption, Cebuana Elreen Ando breaks SEA Games records in golden lift

June Navarro 05/14/2023

PHNOM PENH—Elreen Ando shattered all existing records in her new weight class on the way to victory on Sunday, the country’s first gold medal in women’s weightlifting at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games. The 24-year-old pride of…

Carlos Yulo bags another gold, rules vault in Baku World Cup

June Navarro 03/13/2023

MANILA, Philippines—Carlos Edriel Yulo struck another gold by topping the men’s vault final at the end of the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Series in Baku, Azerbaijan on Sunday. Coming off a victory in the parallel bars…

Hidilyn starts transition to higher 59-kg division for Paris 2024 after getting confirmation ‘that I can still do it’ in last World

June Navarro 01/02/2023

Even before campaigning in the World Championships in Colombia where she completed a gold medal collection not many elite athletes can even talk about having, Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo was already charting a master plan for what could be…

Fall mars Yulo’s golden campaign but PH star rises to challenge

June Navarro 09/26/2022

Doing a series of 360-degree revolutions, Carlos Edriel Yulo released the bar and somersaulted into the air only to lose grip of the horizontal rod on his way down, hitting the deck hard in the process. The…

EJ Obiena wins second gold in five days

June Navarro 08/29/2022

Pole vaulter Ernest John Obiena seized another gold medal in a span of five days, this time in the True Athletes Classic 2022 in Leverkusen, Germany. The world’s No. 3 vaulter hurdled 5.81 meters on his second…

Yulo, other medalists, get SEAG cash rewards

June Navarro 05/30/2022

Happy days are here again for Filipino medal performers as the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) are set to hand out their cash bonuses for a commendable output in the recent 31st…

Hidilyn Diaz, Elreen Ando may clash over one Paris 2024 slot

June Navarro 02/10/2022

MANILA, Philippines–There’s a possibility that Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz and fellow Tokyo Gamer Elreen Ando—Diaz’ labeled heir apparent—could clash in the same weight class in qualification meets for the 2024 Paris Olympics. With just 10 weight…

Ironing kinks, Fernandez turns to Congress for athletes’ voting rights

June Navarro 11/29/2021

Commissioner Ramon Fernandez of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) has been covering all bases and areas of concern for the buildup of Team Philippines in the forthcoming 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG). With the clearance for the…

A day of reckoning

June Navarro, Musong Castillo 11/24/2021

The financial brouhaha involving Olympian EJ Obiena and his national federation, the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa), has taken a really ugly turn no one saw coming. And a source from the athletic body privy…

Cleared of wrongdoing by coach Petrov, pole vault ace Obiena files complaint vs Patafa

June Navarro 11/22/2021

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine pole vault star Ernest John Obiena on Sunday dismissed as a mere personal attack the monetary issues hurled against him after the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa) ordered him to return…

Golden girl gets bust in Zambo

June Navarro 07/28/2021

The cash will come in and accolades will do, too, but there won’t be a better way to pay tribute—and immortalize—Hidilyn Diaz’s golden lift in the Tokyo Olympics than what her hometown of Zamboanga and the government…

Official confident that gymnast Carlos Yulo will bag gold in Tokyo Olympics

June Navarro 07/07/2021

The Philippines will end its Olympic gold drought in Tokyo, where gymnast Carlos Yulo will assume the role as historic hero. That is, if you ask Cynthia Carrion, the gymnastics chief who is making sure her ward…

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