No snow? No drawback.
The Philippines proved {that a} season isn’t any match for the spirit as three of the nation’s rising skills punched tickets to the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics tha will get occurring Jan. 19 in Gangwon, South Korea.
Peter Joseph Groseclose, Avery Uriel Balbanida and Laetaz Amihan Rabe will carry the nation’s hopes within the winter sports activities spectacle.
“I’m proud to announce the participation of our three youngsters to the Winter Youth Olympics,” Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino mentioned in a launch despatched to media places of work on Monday. “We Filipinos have defied limitations and embraced the challenges of competing in winter sports activities by way of the years.”
Athletes’ occasions
“We’re residing in a tropical nation, however our spirit merely is aware of no boundaries. Our athletes are united in pursuing Olympic excellence and that’s additionally a testomony to their Olympic spirit.”
Groseclose, 16, will strive his luck in pace skating’s brief observe occasion. The opposite two representatives will compete in snowboarding, with the 14-year-old Baldanida vying in cross-country and Rabe, additionally 14, competing in. free ski slopestyle and large air.
The Video games, that includes athletes aged 15 to 18, will run till Feb. 1
Ada Lacia Milby will function chef de mission and she or he’ll be accompanied to the Video games by Philippine Skating Union president Nikki Cheng and Philippine Ski and Snowboard Federation secretary common Jezreel Apelar.
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