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WE won four gold medals in the just-ended Asian Games. Not that bad as it tied our output in 2018 Jakarta. Our four gold medals in 2018 came in weightlifting through Hidilyn Diaz, in skateboarding through Margielyn Didal and in golf through Yuka Saso in individual play and Bianca Pagdanganan, LK Go and Saso in team
TEAM PHILIPPINES is shaping up and hoping to sustain the momentum of its Asiad success—to a much more ambitious successful goals in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games—after winning four gold medals, two silvers and 12 bronzes in the Hangzhou 19th Asian Games. And Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino expects the successful
HANGZHOU—Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino described the country’s victory in the 19th Asian Games’ men’s 5x5 basketball competition as “worth a thousand golds”—an accomplishment that was 61 years in the making. Tolentino told Filipino reporters the morning after the Philippines—through its men’s basketball team now popularly called Gilas Pilipinas—won the Asian Games
HANGZHOU—The 19th Asian Games ended with a romantic and touching closing ceremony on Sunday evening with Team Philippines going home with four gold medals—each of them representative of the Filipino athletes’ resilience in a continental multi-sport event that boasts of a semblance with the Olympic Games themselves. “It’s worth a thousand golds!” so said Philippine
JIU-JITSU fighter Annie Ramirez on Friday handed the Philippines its third gold medal in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.