Rio police investigate Taylor Swift concert organizers after fan’s death

Reuters 11/25/2023

RIO DE JANEIRO—Police in Rio de Janeiro said on Friday they have opened an investigation into the organizers of the Brazilian leg of Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” for the death of a 23-year-old fan who fell ill…

Taylor Swift postpones Rio show after fan dies due to extreme heat

Agence France Presse 11/19/2023

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — American superstar Taylor Swift decided on Saturday to postpone a show in Rio de Janeiro due to extreme heat, after a fan died at the singer’s concert the previous night. Saturday’s postponement…

YEAR OF JOY

Glendale G. Rosal 12/30/2016

Tabal in Olympics, IronMan Asia-Pacific C’ships in Cebu highlight endurance sports in 2016 The past year was one for the record books for Cebu in terms of endurance sport. Topping the list of historic moments was Mary…

Tabal joins first race since Rio Olympics

PR 11/14/2016

CEBUANA Olympian Mary Joy Tabal of the Motor Ace Kawasaki Racing team gauged her capacity in a high-level race once more as she competed in the Great Eastern Half Marathon yesterday in Singapore. Tabal finished seventh, clocking…

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…

Gunfire feared in Olympic bus attack

08/11/2016

Rio de Janeiro — A bus carrying Rio Olympics journalists came under attack, and police were investigating whether bullets were fired from the notorious City of God favela. Rio 2016 organizers said two journalists suffered slight injuries…

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…

OFF TO RIO

Glendale G. Rosal 08/01/2016

Cebuana Olympian Joy Tabal wraps up Japan training, heads to Brazil The Philippines’ lone bet in women’s marathon in this year’s Olympics, Cebuana Mary Joy Tabal, will be leaving for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil today after a…

ANXIOUS MOMENTS

PR 07/28/2016

Mary Joy Tabal has four days left before she will be leaving for the biggest race of her life — the Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has spent the last month in Japan to…

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…

‘Juma’ the jaguar killed in Olympic torch event

06/23/2016

A jaguar named Juma trotted out for the Olympic torch’s passage through Brazil’s Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said on Tuesday. The feline — whose…

Teen’s gang-rape video angers Brazil

05/30/2016

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazilian police on Saturday said they had arrested the first of more than 30 suspects wanted over the gang-rape of a 16-year-old girl whose attackers posted a graphic video online showing the…

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