Ex-Olympic swimming champion Kitajima to wed pop star
Japan’s four-time Olympic swimming champion Kosuke Kitajima has announced his engagement to a 27-year-old pop singer.
Japan’s four-time Olympic swimming champion Kosuke Kitajima has announced his engagement to a 27-year-old pop singer.
Senator Antonio Trillanes wants the country’s national sports associations to replace Philippine Olympic Committee chair Jose “Peping” Cojuangco, Jr., weeks after the Philippines once again failed to win a medal in the recently concluded Olympic Games in London.
This Bystander week ending has got to be one of the most eventful in my recent Stateside visits. Highlight, of course, was the four-day Summer Olympic Games in London as viewed on TV. Then there was my viewing on TV of the rare first-season showing of two outstanding movies of the year, my learning more about the latest high-tech terms which is a Eureka! experience for this low, no-tech “ignoramus” and my visiting and being again this time with my two remaining children, two remaining in the States with the passing away last year of one of three, and getting in touch with my recently immigrated son who is not allowed yet to come to the States, and all of this in this partially disabled year starting my nonegarian decade in the States. There, I have finally accepted and revealed my status!
This week I was closely following the Olympic events in London and like other Filipinos, I was very disappointed with the performance of the Philippine contingent.
This year the Philippines sent its smallest delegation to the Olympic Games. Eleven Filipino athletes went to London in the United Kingdom for the 30th summer games in modern history. They were to compete in eight events: weightlifting, archery, boxing, swimming, cycling, judo, shooting and athletics.
Swimmer Michael Phelps became the most successful Olympian in history Tuesday with a gold and a silver medal that propelled him to a place in the sporting record books and the U.S. to 4×200 freestyle victory.
Light flyweight Mark Anthony Barriga scored the Philippines first win in the London Olympics Tuesday, outpointing Italy’s taller Manuel Cappai in the first round of the boxing competitions at the ExCel Arena.
Islands Souvenirs, a subsidiary of the Islands Group of Companies, and Quota International of Metro Cebu (QIMC) partnered in its drive to promote equality and understanding of children with disability. QIMC tied up with Islands Souvenirs to stage the Olympics for the special children carrying the theme, “Continuing to move beyond the challenge” as [...]
For the first time ever in the history of the Olympics, each of the 205 nations participating in the 2012 Summer Games have at least one woman athlete in its team.
The Philippine Olympic Committee which holds office in Pasig City traces its roots to the the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation which was established in 1911. The mother organization of all National Sports Associations in the country, the POC is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as having the sole authority to represent the Philippines in the Olympic games and other multi-event competitions.
The late swimmer Teofilo Yldefonso was the first Filipino Olympic medalist and the only Filipino athlete to have won back-to-back medals in the competition. He won the bronze medal for the 200m breast stroke in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, respectively. Born in Ilocos in 1903, he fought against the Japanese during World War II, survived the Bataan Death March but died at the Capas concentration camp in Tarlac in 1942. He was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2010.
With less than two weeks to go before the Olympic Games, hordes of competitors are pouring into London from across the globe and limbering up — but they’re not athletes.
To show its support to Filipino athletes competing in the upcoming London Olympics, Summit Natural Drinking Water will hold its first running event this year, the “Run For Pinoy Glory” on July 7, 2012 at the Fort San Pedro grounds.
