December 29th, 2007
Here’s a good example of a positive unified effort, which can be said that is somewhat opposite of athlete mutiny. A relatively unknown sport, which can also mean that it’s not highly commercialised, ergo, no sponsors, ergo, no money. But how did the Philippines send a Women’s Futsal Team to the last 24th SEA Games […]
By Sasha Manuel -- 2 comments
December 17th, 2007
Just a quick shout out to all Filipino athletes who competed in the 24th South East Asian Games, finishing at 6th is a great achievement! You make us all proud! You guys won a total of 41 gold medals out of 228 medals in total! Yay!
I know there are people out there thinking that this […]
By Sasha Manuel -- 3 comments
November 15th, 2007
Pétanque is a form of the game Boules, which is quite popular in France. According to Wikipedia, it’s a form of boules where the goal is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (jack). The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel, but can […]
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November 12th, 2007
You guys may be wondering what exactly is Sepak Takraw, well, it’s a local version of an organised hackey sack game only it uses a different sort of “sack”. According to Wikipedia, it is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan ball and only allows players to use […]
By Sasha Manuel -- 5 comments
November 9th, 2007
Just listing down this year’s sports disciplines or events you can expect in the coming 2007 SEA Games that will be held in Thailand.
* Archery
* Aquatics
* Athletics
* Badminton
* Basketball
* Billiards and Snooker
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By Sasha Manuel -- 3 comments
November 9th, 2007
The XXIV South East Asian Games will be held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from December 6 to December 16, 2007. This will be the sixth time that the country will host the SEA Games. Other years that Thailand played host were 1959, 1967, 1975, 1985 and 1995 SEA Games.
Singapore was supposedly the host for […]
By Sasha Manuel -- 0 comments
September 22nd, 2006
This is a question raised in a forum of a local media network and I think it’s a good question to ask. It got varied responses, some negative, and the others are really great suggestions.
Someone brought up the issue of athletes playing just for the money. My two cents on the matter, I reckon as […]
By Sasha Manuel -- 10 comments
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