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IT’S now 11 and counting for Team Philippines to the Paris Olympics after rower Joanie Delgaco made it a 1-2 weekend punch on Sunday morning in Korea with gymnast Levi Jung-Ruivivar, who got herself qualified in Doha on Friday night. Neither was actually on the radar but both turned out…
HANGZHOU—Joanie Delgaco was fifth in the final of the 19th Asian Games women’s singles scull of rowing where height determines who wins and who doesn’t. Ranged against grizzled rowers who all stand close to 6 feet, the 5-foot-5 Delgaco, the only Southeast Asian in the final round, clocked eight minutes and 5.93 seconds to finish
HANGZHOU—Joanie Delgaco will be an underdog rowing against the big guns in the women’s single sculls final of the 19th Asian Games on Monday at the Fuyang Water Sports Center. The final set at 9:10 a.m. will be raced over the standard distance of 1,000 meters. The 25-year-old Delgaco will be up against Bulgaria-born former
HANGZHOU—Joanie Delgaco placed second in the semifinals on Friday to progress into the final of women’s single sculls of rowing to be in position of the Philippines’ first medal in the 19th Asian Games at the Fuyang Water Sports Center. A gold medalist in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games back home, Delgaco stormed into the
DLSU men’s basketball coach Topex Robinson was in the US on a scouting trip when the Green Archers beat Adamson, 21-18, to bag the UAAP 3x3 crown at the Calatagan South Beach resort in Batangas last week. Although he wasn’t in town, Robinson’s imprint was evident in the way Kevin Quiambao, CJ Austria, Josh David and Francis Escandor played with discipline and resolve under coach Ogie Ng