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MANILA, Philippines – Filipino International Master Daniel Quizon is eyeing to kill two birds with one stone when he joins the ultra-competitive 30th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival in the United Arab Emirates — earn rating points to claim the Grandmaster title and warm up for next month’s Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary.
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippines’ Janelle Mae Frayna bested FIDE Master Timo Kuppers of Germany to salvage a decent finish and earn rating points in the Sparkassen Chess Trophy in Dortmund, Germany Sunday night.
MANILA, Philippines — Sixty-one Filipino swimmers based abroad have signed up to join some 500 local hopefuls in the Philippine Aquatics, Inc. (PAI) National Trials -- 50-meter (long course) and 25-meter (short course) – Swimming Championships slated on Aug. 15-18 and Aug. 20-23, respectively, at the Teofilo Ildefonso swimming pool of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex.
MANILA, Philippines — Janelle Mae Frayna and Jan Jodilyn Fronda showed their readiness to lead the Philippine women’s team in next month’s FIDE World Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary after strong finishes in a recent tournament in Vlissingen, The Netherlands.
FROM more than 66,000 applications all over the globe, with 40,200 coming from Asia and 23,832 from Africa, 23 Filipino students successfully passed the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship program and will start their studies in various universities in Hungary in September.
MANILA, Philippines -- Gilas Pilipinas completed a clean sweep of its campaign in the first ever women’s tournament of Pinoyliga Cup as it downed the Army Altama, 88-79, last week at the Enderun Colleges gymnasium in Taguig City.
Manchester City continue their preparations for the 2024/25 season with a friendly against Chelsea in the United States on Saturday.
PARIS, France — One of the boxers at the center of a gender controversy at the Olympics comfortably reached the quarter-finals Friday, as fellow fighters and public figures weighed into the furore.