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PH women’s baseball team to stop training

The national women’s baseball team will no longer resume its physical training activities to prepare for coming international meets. That’s because the Women’s World Cup...

Fears of cancellation cloud Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo—When the Tokyo Olympics were postponed last year, officials promised they would open in 2021 as proof of mankind’s triumph over the coronavirus. But six...

Tokyo Olympic karate gold hope Kiyuna contracts COVID

World champion Ryo Kiyuna, one of the favourites to win men's kata gold when karate makes its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games, has...

Postponed Olympics to cost extra $2.4 billion

Tokyo---The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics will cost at least an extra $2.4 billion, organizers said Friday, with the unprecedented postponement and a raft of pandemic...

NBA reveals format tweak for 2020-2021 campaign

The NBA will use a play-off tournament to determine the seventh and eighth seeds in the 2020-2021 postseason, according to a new format unveiled...

Bach: Olympics not ‘marketplace of demos’

London -- Olympics chief Thomas Bach warned against allowing the Games to “descend into a marketplace of demonstrations” on Saturday after criticism of a...

PH Olympian turns pro, signs with MP Promotions

Eumir Felix Marcial, one of four national athletes who can earn the country’s first Olympic gold medal in Tokyo next year, has officially turned professional. The...

Boxing nurse fights Covid-19, dreams of Olympics

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Olympics, virus dominate Tokyo governor vote

The postponed Olympics and a worrying second surge in coronavirus cases are the main issues as Tokyo voters elect a governor on Sunday to...

Japan rugby star Fukuoka forced to ditch Olympic dream

Japan rugby star Kenki Fukuoka, dubbed a "Ferrari" for his sheer pace at last year's World Cup, has pulled out of the running for...

Tokyo Olympics will be safe, governor promises

Tokyo—Next year’s Olympics will be safe despite the coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has said, pledging a “120-percent effort” to ensure the first-ever...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Morrow dies at 84

Treble Olympic gold medalist Bobby Joe Morrow -- who won 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at the 1956 Melbourne Games, has died at...

Marcial stresses: No rift with ABAP

Middleweight boxer Eumir Felix Marcial, who booked a ticket to the Olympics earlier this year in Amman, Jordan, belied persistent reports that a rift...

Olympian Marcial consults archery chief on tax, legal matters

National boxer Eumir Felix Marcial, who will turn professional after the Tokyo Olympics, has tapped Clint Aranas as his legal counsel. The 24-year-old Marcial said...
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