Smart Omega Empress dreams for Esports inclusion as regular sports for Olympics

Glendale G. Rosal 08/10/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — As the Philippines celebrates its historic Olympic achievement of securing two gold medals and two bronzes, the all-female Smart Omega Empress Esports team dreams of a future where their beloved sport, Esports, is…

‘We did it!’: France breathes sigh of relief after Olympics ceremony

AFP 07/27/2024

PARIS, France – The concept had been derided as overly ambitious and the location criticised as a prime security risk. But after years of preparation, France could Saturday breathe a sigh of relief — it had pulled…

Palestinian Olympic athletes greeted with cheers, gifts in Paris

AP 07/27/2024

PARIS (AP) — Palestinian Olympic athletes were greeted with a roar of a crowd and gifts of food and roses as they arrived in Paris on Thursday, ready to represent war–torn Gaza and the rest of the territories on…

Locked-down Paris nervously awaits Olympics opening ceremony

Agence France Presse 07/26/2024

“It’s going to be a beautiful success,” says Claudine Vacelet confidently of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, before pausing. “Well, with the security issues, I suppose we’ll only see whether it’s a success at the end.” After…

Hidilyn Diaz, Margielyn Didal gun for Olympic medals Monday

Francis T.J. Ochoa 07/26/2021

TOKYO—Hidilyn Diaz moves into the spotlight on Monday with the hopes of a country now heavier on her as she shoots for a gold medal in the women’s weightlifting 55k-kilogram category in the Tokyo Olympics here. Margielyn…

Postponing the Olympic Games: it’s complicated

03/23/2020

The Tokyo Olympics appears to be creeping towards a postponement, an unprecedented and costly exercise that involves ripping up years of planning. As International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach told Germany’s SWR: “Postponing the Olympic Games is…

Female athlete to launch Olympic torch relay for 1st time

AP 02/08/2020

ATHENS, Greece — For the first time, a woman has been chosen to launch the torch relay for the 2020 Tokyo Games at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in Greece. Greece’s Olympic committee said Thursday it…

Hidilyn Diaz in Cebu today

Glendale G. Rosal 09/01/2016

THE country’s lone medalist in the recently concluded Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Hidilyn Diaz, will be in Cebu today to spearhead a sports seminar on Sunday. Diaz, silver medalist in women’s weightlifting in the…

Picking up credentials

Dr. Rhoel James Timothy Dejano 08/04/2016

Today I woke up late. It was already late in the afternoon when I finally got out of bed. I was tired from all the travelling and the jet lag. But I had to pick up my…

GIVING HER ALL

Glendale G. Rosal 07/14/2016

With less than a month left from the biggest race of her sterling career, Cebuana marathoner Mary Joy Tabal is giving her all in the remaining stretch of her training in Japan to make sure that she’ll…

Cebuano doctor accepted as volunteer athletic doctor for Rio Olympics

Jonas N. Panerio 01/14/2016

RENOWNED Cebuano doctor Rhoel James Timothy Dejano is headed to the biggest athletic spectacle of all as he was accepted as volunteer athletic medical doctor for South America’s first ever Olympic Games later this year in Rio…

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