TWENTY athletes are flying to Harbin this week for the ninth edition of the Asian Winter Games which Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino intended to use as springboard to the country’s goal of clinching a first-ever Winter Olympics medal.
TWENTY athletes are flying to Harbin this week for the ninth edition of the Asian Winter Games which Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino intended to use as springboard to the country’s goal of clinching a first-ever Winter Olympics medal.
“I believe our winter sport athletes can deliver, not in terms of medals, but in terms of the exposure and experience that’s needed as we also put weight on our thrust for the Winter Olympics,” said Tolentino on Monday. Team Philippines is composed of Francis Ceccarelli and Tallulah Proulx in slalom of Alpine skiing, Laetaz Amihan Rabe in free ski slopestyle, big air and halfpipe of snowboarding, as well as short-track speed skater Peter Groseclose, figure skating pair of Isabella Gamez and Alexander Korovin and figure skaters Paolo Borromeo, Cathryn Limketkai and Sofia Frank.
A total of 1,275 athletes from 34 countries are seeing action in 64 events in 11 sports—alpine skiing, biathlon, cross country, curling, figure skating, freestyle skating, ice hockey, short track speed skating, ski mountaineering, snowboarding and speed skating—in Harbin.
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