2017 SEA Games Two years ago Pinoyathletics.info predicted a 25-32 Gold Medal Total harvest for Team Philippines in all Sports. This was for the 2015 Singapore SEA Games. This was in very big contrast to Task Force heads Julian Camacho‘s of the Philippine Olympic Commitee bold prediction of 50 Gold Medals. Suffice to say 50…
09 June 2017 The PATAFA Reinstatement Committee has recommended the reinstatement of Mary Joy Tabal to the national Athletics team to the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games in August. The conditions for reinstatement include the following: 1) Ms Tabal shall sign a written undertaking committing herself to abide by the PATAFA Rules and Regulations…
Three Newspaper articles with various statements came out. From The Malaya, Inquirer and Sunstar. Pinoyathletics prays that PATAFA and Mary Joy Tabal and her group can find a resolution to this matter before the deadline of entries closes for SEA Games. As we are not privy to the arrangement between PATAFA and Tabal’s group we…
European Lessons for Athletics Grassroots Program in the Philippines Airnel T. Abarra, MSc Head Coach- Ateneo de Davao University Meet Director- Blue Knights Track League, Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines Its been always my belief that “you can’t give what do don’t have”. That’s why to learn a different perspective in Athletics from…
Continued from Part 2 I had been very generous allowing Jonifer Povencilo the chance as agreed onto handle the relay teams. But on three occasions he tried with the help sometimes of his buddy Jong Salinas to interfere with the individual training of Magpale and my other athletes. On the third occasion four of my athletes even ran…
Pinoyathletics.info celebrates its 5th Birthday, started in 2012. Prior to this we were Pinoyathletics.com at wordpress starting in 2011 before moving to wordpress.org. And prior to that in 2010 I first signed up to sports writing through the encouragement of Moriel ‘Yell’ Carreon, The Pinoymiler YUN OH!!!. When we first came along there was pinoymiler…
sprinters Sprinters aren’t just faster than the rest of us. Their bones are actually different from non-athletes. Competitive sprinters have significantly different bone structure, with changes that make them run faster. The finding could lead to tests to see if someone has the potential to be a competitive sprinter. Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging on…
