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Hidilyn Diaz: Lift Of Fury

Anger is defined as a strong feeling of being upset or annoyed after something wrong or bad happened to someone. For Hidilyn Diaz, resentment led her to a process that established her name as a legitimate Filipina weighlifting icon. Less than a month before the opening of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, […]

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Arwind Santos: ‘Lean But Mean’

For a basketball player to gain success as a power forward, one should have enough height and heft as banging bodies inside the shaded lane is its basic task. In the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), the charismatic Alvin Patrimonio has been the barometer of that position ever since he entered the league in 1988. The […]

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Premium Rush

There is a longtime debate about the hazards of an Enduro race not only in the Philippines but in almost every country that conducts this type of cycling activity. While there is a wide variety of protective gears available for mountain bikers, the typical areas where Enduro races are being held are the ones that […]

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Kim On The Run

Triathlon is considered as one of the toughest endurance sports mankind has ever developed. A standard triathlon race is composed of 1.5 kilometer swim, 40 kilometer bike capped by a 10 kilometer run, easily, not for the faint-hearted. In the Philippines, a young lady named Kim Mangrobang is currently the highest-rated triathlete and is considered […]

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Street Dreams

While skateboarding is seen by many as an extreme sport, it doesn’t need extreme preparations for one to become a great skateboarder. Take for example the case of Margielyn Didal, the Cebuana skateboarder who accounted for one of the four gold medals that the country won in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. Didal is […]

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Lift Off

The future looks bright for Philippine weightlifting after a pair of young but elite athletes made waves in the recent 2018 Hidilyn Diaz Weightlifting Open Championships held recently at the Meralco fitness Center in Pasig City. 20-year-old Ellen Rose Perez, the champion of the 2017 Asian Senior Cup Weightlifting Championships held in Yanggu, South Korea, […]

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