Category: Olympic Games
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Marestella Torres – Joins the Legends of Track and Field
Marestella Torres – Joins the Legends of Track and Field A career that spanned over 2 decades. After 23 years of loyal service to the national team, Marestella Torres finally hangs up the spikes and focuses on other ventures. One of the greatest ever Filipina Athletics Athletes of the 21st Century. Her feats in the…
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Blessing Okagbare suspended for HGH
Blessing Okagbare was suspended for HGH BLESSING OKAGBARE OF NIGERIA PROVISIONALLY SUSPENDED AFTER TESTING POSITIVE FOR HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE 31 JULY 2021, MONACO: The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has provisionally suspended Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria today with immediate effect after a sample collected from the sprinter tested positive for Human Growth Hormone. Growth Hormone is…
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2020 Olympic Games middle distance
2020 Olympic Games middle distance 2020 Olympic Games middle distance Previews and Predictions Mens and Women’s Moriel Carreon contributed to this article. Aka. Yel Carreon! Aka. The original Pinoymiler!!! YON OH!! Moriel Carreon was the founder of the Pinoymiler website, which I wrote articles for many years. He is a former UST Alumni who ran…
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Enoch Adegoke wins Nigerian National title in PB 10.00 (video)
Enoch Adegoke 10.00 (+1.2 m/s) at the 2021 Nigerian National Track and Field Championships The Men’s 100m finals for 10.00sec from Enoch Adegoke *rounded up to 10.00 from 9.97. HE HAS DONE IT! ENOCH ADEGOKE has just qualified for #TokyoOlympics running a new Personal of 10.00s! (+1.2) It was coming, and quite fitting that he…
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Transgender Athletes
Sandisha Antoine. Mondo Duplantis. Tobi Amusan. Transgender athletes.
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William Morrison
Morrison also is known as Wilipino. In addition, he has a Personal best of 20.40m on 22 June 2019 at Bloomington before representing the Philippines. Above all, he is part of a program of athletes aiming for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. 21.10m by June 29 is the qualification for Men’s Shotput at the Tokyo…
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Tokyo Olympics be run with no live audiences?
Based on These Olympic Standards, who do you think will qualify for World Champs from the Philippines? So Far, only EJ Obiena has qualified for Tokyo Olympics 2021 from Philippines Athletics. [poll id=”13″] Andrew Pirie“In 2020, Andrew advanced to the position of Vice President with the Association of Track and Field Statisticians, having devoted seven…
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Greatest Filipina Athletes in Athletics response to Eddie Alinea
I’m afraid I disagree with Eddie Alinea that Lydia De Vega is the Phi greatest ever Filipina athletes in Track and Field. https://www.manilatimes.net ‘ Our Greatest Ever Filipina Athletes in Track and Field response to Eddie Alinea writeup My vote is with Josephine Dela Vina. Philippine Sports never well recognized her during her lifetime for her…
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Archand Bagsit – 2021 Tokyo Olympics
Archand Bagsit Introduction: In an interview that also featured Phil Spada Coach Joel Deriada. There could be as many as 9 Grand Prix meets coming up for Bagsit to have many chances to qualify for the Olympics. There will be no 200m events at Olympics, only 100m and 200m The 100m and 400m standards are…
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John Akii-Bua
John Akii-Bua After 40 Years Uganda gained its second gold medal in the 2012 London Olympic Games. Below is the story of the men who earned gold for their country. (Aug 16) I saw this link to this brilliant Documentary from a friend who shared it. It tells the tragic story of an Olympic icon John…
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2020 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships – Cancelled
The Asian Athletics Association (AAA) had CANCELLED the 9th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships scheduled from Feb 12-13 at Hangzhou, China. Amid fears of the coronavirus outbreak. Asian Athletics forwards the meet to 2021 aswell as the World Indoors aswell.
