Filipino athletes in Beijing Olympics already winners in their own right -- PGMA
BEIJING,
Aug. 11 (PNA/via PLDT) -– President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Sunday
she is proud of the Filipino athletes competing in the 29th Olympic
Games here, saying they are already winners in their own right. [ Read More ]
5 teams in early Villar Cup Media tilt lead
MANILA,
Aug. 3 (PNA) -- Five teams posted back-to-back victories to show the
way at the start of the First Senate President Manny Villar Cup Media
Edition Saturday at the AMF-Puyat Billiards Center in Star Mall EDSA. [ Read More ]
PGMA meets RP Olympic delegation Friday
MANILA, Aug 1 (PNA) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to meet
the Philippine Olympic delegation in Malacanang Friday, four days
before the bulk of the team leaves for Beijing, China on August 5. [ Read More ]
Team RP pays a courtesy call on GMA Friday
MANILA, July 31 (PNA) -- President Macapagal-Arroyo will spend sometime with the athletes and officials and wish
them luck when the Team Philippines competing in the Beijing Olympic Games calls on her tomorrow afternoon at Malacanang. [ Read More ]
Small but mean RP Team bound for Beijing Olympics in quest for elusive gold medal
MANILA,
July 30 (PNA) -- Fifteen Filipino athletes will leave for the August
Beijing Olympics next week to compete and possibly come home with the
country's first-ever gold medal in the quadrennial meet. [ Read More ]
Davao booters coming home after European competition
DAVAO
CITY, July 30 (PNA) –- Twelve young Davao soccer players are arriving
home next week after a series of competition early this month in Europe
against the best young booters in the world. [ Read More ]
Team RP leaves for Beijing in batches
MANILA,
July 29 (PNA) -- The main group of athletes and officials in the
37-member Team Philippines will leave for Beijing on August 5, three
days before the 29th Olympic Games comes off the wraps in glittering
rites. [ Read More ]
Pinay triathlete bags bronze in Malaysia
MANILA,
July 27 (PNA) -- Lea Coline Langit, the country’s third ranked female
triathlete, salvaged a bronze medal in the recent Port Dickson
International Triathlon in Malaysia. [ Read More ]
$ 1-M 'sports hotel' rising in Subic Freeport
MANILA,
July 25 (PNA) -- A $ 1-million "sports hotel", featuring an
Olympic-sized swimming pool will soon boost the Subic Bay Metropolitan
Authority's thrust to promote Subic as a major sports destination not
only in Luzon or in the Philippines, but in Asia as well. [ Read More ]
PSC chair hopes RP has good chance of bagging Olympic gold
DAVAO
CITY, July 24 (PNA) -- Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman
William "Butch" Ramirez said the hunt for the country's first-ever
Olympic gold is still attainable, and this even could come in the
Beijing Games next month. [ Read More ]
