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CARLO PAALAM and Nesthy Petecio lead the charge of a 10-member Philippine team whose members shoot for berths to the Paris Olympics through the first World Olympic Qualifying Tournament that starts Saturday in Busto Arsizio, Italy. National coach Ronald Chavez bared to BusinessMirror on Thursday the members of the team…

BAC NINH, Vietnam—Eumir Felix Marcial tries to put more emphasis on his lofty billing when he shoots for his fourth consecutive boxing gold medal at the 31st Southeast Asian Games. Standing in the way of the Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist for the men’s middleweight title is Timor Leste’s Delio Anzaqeci…

BAC NINH City—Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist Eumir Felix Marcial and former world champion Josie Gabuco step into the ring seeking gold medal round berths in their respective weight divisions in the 31st Southeast Asian Games boxing competitions at the Bac Ninh Stadium. Marcial drew a bye in the seven-boxer middleweight…

TOKYO Olympics silver medalist Carlo Paalam harbors no hard feelings on his exclusion from the national boxing team to the 31st Southeast Asian Games set next month in Hanoi “It’s give and take between me and Rogen [Ladon],” Paalam told BusinessMirror from the team’s training camp in Muak Lek, Thailand,…

WHEN the national boxing team arrives in Hanoi for the 31st Southeast Asian Games in May, each of the five men and five women on the squad will have imaginary bullseyes on their backs. “Our boxers will be targets in the SEA Games,” Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines…

THE Association of Boxing Alliances in the Philippines (Abap) will open training camp on Monday in Baguio City for the International Boxing Association Women’s World Championships in Istanbul in December—sans Tokyo Olympics silver medalist Nesthy Petecio. “I would like to rest and spend my time with my family. I have…