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Vietnam will not be expected to equal its hosting of the 2021 Southeast Asian Games with the scale of the Philippine staging last year. Vietnam emerging as overall champion should also not be expected.

Filipino boxing champion Nesthy Petecio eagerly anticipates the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Baguio to be lifted so he can return to his training regimen. 

There is no “Plan B” for the Olympics if they need to be postponed again because of the coronavirus pandemic, Tokyo organizers said.

Asia’s top football tournaments will go ahead this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic, although games may have to be played behind closed doors.

Philippine triathlon poster girls Kim Mangrobang and Kim Kilgroe are aware they could lose their chance to represent the country in the Tokyo Olympics due to the COVID-19 global lockdown that prevent them from participating in qualifying tournaments.

Volleyball stars across the country hosted online raffles for their personal jerseys and other memorabilia to raise funds to buy medical supplies for COVID-19 frontliners.

The top US health and infectious disease specialist says reopening of professional sports leagues in America is possible only if athletes play games inside empty stadiums.

Filipino-American Tim Tebow of the New York Mets minor league will represent the Philippines in the upcoming World Baseball Classic qualifiers. 

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go reiterated his commitment to help the Filipino athletes as he pushed for the passage of two Senate bills that seek to create a Philippine Boxing and Combat Sports Commission. 

Tokyo – The International Olympic Committee is “fully committed” to holding the 2020 Games in Tokyo as planned despite the widening new coronavirus outbreak, according to the IOC president.