BEIJING -- WITH THE PULLOUT OF Miguel Molina from the 200-meter freestyle competition at the magnificent Water Cube aquatics venue, trapshooter Eric Ang will be the Philippines? lone bidder Sunday at the Beijing Olympics here.

His back against the wall after a disastrous first three strings Saturday at the Beijing Shooting Range, Ang goes into a battle he knows he can?t survive at 9 a.m. for the last two sets of the 125-bird trap event.

Ang lay eight points off the joint leaders David Kostelecky of the Czech Republic and world record-holder Giovanni Pellielo of Italy and was virtually out of contention for the finals shootoff among the top six preliminary scorers.

?He needs something like a miracle to make it to the shootoff,? conceded an official of the Philippine Olympic Committee. ?He could have avoided his predicament if he shot well?not a 19?in the first string.?

If he fails, as expected, to advance to the medal round Sunday, Ang will be the first Filipino athlete to bomb out of the Games.

Monday sees female lifter Hidilyn Diaz competing in the 48-kilogram class at the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics gymnasium at noon before swimmer James Walsh plunges into action at 7:08 p.m. in the 200-meter butterfly.

Molina, the Southeast Asian Games? best male athlete, finally opens his bid in one of the eight heats of the 200m breaststroke on Tuesday at the National Aquatics Center.

Archer Mark Javier, who finished 36th in the ranking round of the men?s individual Fita 70-meter event Saturday, set up a knockout match with Chinese Taipei?s Kuo Cheng-wei on Wednesday at the Beijing Green Archery Field on Wednesday, the same day light flyweight Harry Tañamor sees action for the first time in the boxing competition against Ghana?s Manyo Plange at the Beijing Workers? Stadium.

The 29-year-old Tañamor has been installed the favorite to beat the Ghanaian by oddsmakers of the international boxing federation.