Games & Gaming

Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano said the construction of the P50-million cauldron used during the 2019 Southeast Asian Games (SEA) Games was funded by the private sector. 

The House of Representatives recently approved the request of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) for an additional P650 million for the Philippine Sports Commission’s (PSC) 2022 budget from general appropriations. 

The Mindanao State University (MSU) Marawi Campus has conferred a Doctor of Humanities honoris causa degree to Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman William “Butch” Ramirez for his contribution to the Mindanao Sports for Peace movement at the MSU Convention Center, Lanao del Sur during the university’s celebration of its 60th founding anniversary recently. 

The opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics was held July 23, 2021 in a nearly empty stadium after a year-long pandemic postponement and a build-up marred by scandal and controversy.

Just before the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, President Rodrigo Duterte granted additional P100,000 allowance to the 19 Filipino athletes and six paralympians participating at the Tokyo Olympics “as a token and to celebrate the achievement” of the athletes qualified for the Olympics and Paralympics.

Filipino-American Lee Kiefer fencer, representing USA, won the gold in the women’s individual foil fencing, defeating defending champion Inna Deriglazova of Russia in the Tokyo Olympics.

The pressure of winning the Philippines’ first Olympic gold medal is taking a toll on Filipino athletes competing in the world’s biggest sports spectacle in Tokyo, Japan.

Team USA, led by NBA All-Star Kevin Durant, suffered a stunning loss, 83-76, from France, snapping an Olympic winning streak stretching back to the 2004 Athens Games.

The German women’s gymnastics team wore full-body suits at the Tokyo Olympics, saying their fashion choice went against the sexualization of their sport and showed that women could wear what they choose.

The best three-year-old horses in the country will be battling it out this Sunday, July 25 at the San Lazaro Leisure Park in Carmona, Cavite to take the first step toward immortality as the first leg of the PHILRACOM Triple Crown unfolds.