HANGZHOU, China: Despite the absence of marquee players, the national fencing team remains optimistic over their chances in the 19th Asian Games here.
National fencing team head coach Ramil Ederiano said they are keeping their hopes high despite the absence of Southeast Asian Games standouts Samantha Catantan and Maxine Esteban.Catantan, who competes for Penn State University, suffered a knee injury that prompted her to withdraw from the gold medal match of the women's foil event of the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia.Esteban, for her part, bolted out of the national team to join Ivory Coast as a naturalized player.
Their training and participation were bankrolled by the Philippine Sports Commission.'A lot of individual medalists will join like Noelito,' said Edriano, whose wards will start competing for the 12 gold medals at stake on Sunday at the Hangzhou Dianzi University Gymnasium.'They have been beating Asian champions. They have a good chance of making it to the medal round of individual events.
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