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PARIS – The Paris Games has the chance to "kick-start a resurgence of the Olympic brand" following the last two Covid-affected editions and the doping-blighted 2014 Sochi Winter Games, former IOC marketing executive Terrence Burns has told AFP.
LOS ANGELES, United States -- LeBron James, Stephen Curry and reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Joel Embiid were named among a 41-strong player pool for the USA's 2024 Olympics basketball roster on Tuesday (Wednesday, Manila time.)
PARIS – When the Paris Olympics open in six months' time on July 26, these five stars will be expected to light up the venues, delighting spectators and a TV audience of billions:
One of the top basketball countries in the world has offered to help Gilas Pilipinas in its quest to qualify for the basketball tournament of the Paris Olympics. In an exclusive interview with The Star, Dr. Mindaugas Balciunas, secretary-general of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation (Lietuvos Krepsinio Federacija), revealed that they have invited the Philippine men’s national team to a series of tune-up games in Lithuania prior to the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) which is in Latvi, just across their border. Lithuania is ranked 10th in the world by FIBA in men’s basketball and has already qualified for Paris.
MANILA, Philippines — Only four athletes are so far guaranteed to compete for the Philippines in the Paris Olympics this year but POC president Bambol Tolentino is hopeful more will qualify despite the challenges alog the way.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – South Africa's ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison on parole Friday, almost 11 years after he shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a crime that gripped the world.
MANILA, Philippines – The country’s chess cream of the crop headed by Grandmasters John Paul Gomez, Darwin Laylo and Joey Antonio, and Woman GM Janelle Mae Frayna shoot for Olympiad slots in the Philippine National Open Championships that unfolded Wednesday at the Marikina Community Convention Center.
PARIS – Russian competitors remain banned from track and field events at next year's Paris Olympics but World Athletics president Sebastian Coe on Monday (Tuesday Manila time) conceded that "the world changes" and said the situation was being monitored.