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Filipino sports fans are feeling a mixture of emotions this 2023, from the joy of winning, to the sadness of the passing of a well-known legend,

DARIUS VENERABLE flexed just enough muscles to edge South Korea’s Namhun Lee in the men’s Poomsae individual of taekwondo on Monday for the Philippines’s third gold medal in the World Combat Games at the King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 22-year-old Venerable scored 9.280 points—5.560 technical skills and 3.720 presentation with zero error—to

POLE vault star Ernest John “EJ” Obiena carried the cudgels in a “September to remember” for Philippines sports. The world No. 2 Obiena lived up to his lofty billing and produced the country’s first gold medal in Hangzhou with an Asian Games record-breaking mark of 5.90 meters. The feat sparked an early rush of one

■ Ofelia C. Empian Wushu-taulo athlete Jones Llabares Inso gave the Philippines its second bronze medal while wushu-sanda fighter Gideon Padua handed the bronze after the Wushu Federation forfeited his semis match for his safety during 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. Inso of La Trinidad, Benguet shared the podium behind China’s Gao Haonan and

HANGZHOU—Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Richard “Dickie” Bachmann is hopeful and confident that the country’s first gold medal in the 19th Asian Games would come sooner or later. “I’m still hoping,” Bachmann told Filipino reporters covering the Asian Games that are into its fifth day since the opening ceremony last Saturday. “I’m confident that we