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MANILA, Philippines — It’s not widely known that Meralco chairman/CEO Manny V. Pangilinan paid a visit to the Bolts’ practice gym and spoke to the team the day before Game Six of the PBA Philippine Cup semifinal series against Barangay Ginebra. The Bolts were down, 2-3, in the duel and one loss away from elimination.
MANILA, Philippines — Featherweight contender Carlo Paalam has three more wins to go before clinching a ticket to Paris but it won’t be an easy pathway as the fights are scheduled one day after another starting today against Armenia’s Artur Bazeyan at the second World Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament in Bangkok.
MANILA, Philippines — With 32 of 63 featherweight (57kg) fighters still standing in the race for three Paris tickets, Carlo Paalam hopes to avenge a previous loss to Turkmenistan’s Shukur Ovezov when they face off at the second World Qlympic Qualifying Tournament in Bangkok today.
MANILA, Philippines — It was Barangay Ginebra guard LA Tenorio’s first start this PBA Philippine Cup and he made sure to repay coach Tim Cone’s trust. He set the tone as Ginebra opened a 31-15 first quarter lead and breezed to a 90-71 win over Meralco to even their best-of-seven semis series, 2-2, at the MOA Arena last Friday.
MANILA, Philippines — An age difference of 11 years may be an advantage or disadvantage for Bago City veteran Rogen Ladon when he faces Spanish teener Rafael Serrano Lozano, Jr. in the 51kg preliminaries at the second World Olympic Qualifiers in Bangkok this afternoon. Experience will be on the 30-year-old Ladon’s side while Lozano, 19, will rely on younger legs to carry him through in the three-round bout.
MANILA, Philippines — Juan Miguel Elorde has been appointed to the 20-strong WBC Ratings Committee by WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman to join Patrick Cusick of Thailand as the only Asians in the powerful body headed by Dean Lohuis.
MANILA, Philippines — POC president Mayor Bambol Tolentino said yesterday he expects a delegation of about 25 athletes to represent the country at the coming Paris Olympics with more qualifiers from boxing, golf, judo, cycling, swimming, athletics, skateboarding, gymnastics and weightlifting tipped to bolster the current pool of 12.
MANILA, Philippines — Criztian Pitt Laurente is putting his pro boxing career on hold to bid for a slot in the Paris Olympics and will join Carlo Paalam, Rogen Ladon and Hergie Bacyadan in the final World Qualifiers in Bangkok on May 23-June 3. There are 51 Olympic tickets left for boxing, 28 men and 23 women, in 13 weight divisions.