A number of Filipino athletes are simply starting their marketing campaign within the Hangzhou Asian Video games on Thursday, October 5 because the competitors in Hangzhou, China winds out to its final 4 days.
Representatives in karate and jiu-jitsu open their respective bids whereas Eumir Marcial tries to ship Philippine boxing’s first gold medal in these yr’s Video games within the males’s 80kg.
ASIAN GAMES: TEAM PHILIPPINES OCTOBER 5 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Philippines Eumir Felix Marcial in blue consolation Syria’s Ahmad Ghousoon after defeating him within the Boxing Males’s 71-80Kg Semifinal bout for the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photograph/Aijaz Rahi)
Eumir Marcial isn’t in a rush to leap right into a mega-buck combat anytime quickly.
He has the Paris Olympics to sit up for.
And with that being stated, Marcial will now be utilizing his future professional fights to sharpen up for his quest for the gold medal that issues most subsequent yr.
Gilas Pilipinas Girls within the nineteenth Asian Video games.
The Gilas Pilipinas ladies noticed motion of their first Asian Video games (Asiad) in 25 years, reaching the quarterfinals like that they had focused to do.
The Philippines ended its marketing campaign with a 2-2 report to complete fifth in a discipline of 12 nations—a good run for a program that had simply earned a recent invite to the continental showcase after sterling stints in varied tournaments the previous two years.
However coach and Gilas ladies’s program director Pat Aquino desires his prices to perform extra that he’s not about to relaxation simply but.
Carlo Paalam vs Abdumalik Khalokov of Uzbekistan within the Asian Video games boxing quarterfinals. –POOL PHOTO
HANGZHOU, China—Carlo Paalam has gotten a style of the literal tall odds he would want to face extra on the highway to Paris.
Bombing out of the 57-kilogram class within the quarterfinals of the nineteenth Asian Video games boxing competitors, Paalam is considering of sliding again to his previous 51-kg division the place he snared a silver medal within the final Olympics—and the place he has a greater shot at making it again there subsequent yr.
He should make up his thoughts quick, because the clock is ticking with the World Qualification Tournaments for Paris set early subsequent yr.
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