N. Luzon archers hit mark, bag 14 golds
Archers from Northern Luzon swept the 14 golds in archery in the Philippine Olympic Committee-Philippine Sports Commission Batang Pinoy 2012 National Finals on Friday at La Paz Plaza football field here.
Archers from Northern Luzon swept the 14 golds in archery in the Philippine Olympic Committee-Philippine Sports Commission Batang Pinoy 2012 National Finals on Friday at La Paz Plaza football field here.
Archer Mark Javier tried his darndest best to pull off a surprise but was simply no match to a steely-nerved American deadshot and bowed out of the 30th London Olympics here Wednesday, his hopes of making amends for his woeful debut in Beijing 2008 in tatters.
For archer Mark Javier, the best salve for a vanquished warrior’s confidence is a word of encouragement from the victor.
CRISPIN DUENAS, the Fil-Canadian who represents Canada in the London Olympics and one of the world’s top-ranked archers, has crashed out of the Games in one of the biggest upsets in the archery competition here.
The U.S. women’s archery team got off to a nice start with a surprising second-place showing in the ranking round. Now it’s looking for a strong finish Sunday, one that includes its first Olympic medal since 1988.
The Philippine campaign in the 30th Olympic Games here went off to a prosaic start Friday with the two Filipino archers making it to the lower half of their respective draws in the archery competitions.
There’s a second Filipino competing in the men’s division of the archery competitions in the 30th Olympic Games here, but though he’s proud of his heritage, he cannot represent the Philippines.
South Korean archer Im Dong-hyun sees only blurred colors and lines when he peers toward the target about 76 yards away, arrow at the ready. It doesn’t stop the legally blind Olympian from hitting the grapefruit-sized yellow center — again and again and again.
There’s a second Filipino competing in the men’s division of the archery competitions in the 30th Olympic Games here, but, while he’s proud of his heritage, he cannot represent the Philippines.
Seemingly emboldened by more specialized training and lessons learned from his previous Games stint, archer Mark Javier shot an satisfactory classification score Friday but left himself a mountain to climb at the London Olympics here.
He’s got a mountain to climb to advance in the knockout stages, but Mark Javier is unruffled. The country’s main hope in archery at these London Olympics is hoping that his foe in the first round of the men’s 70-meter individual competition—former World No. 1 Ellison Brady of the United States—continues his bad form here.
Teener Bianca Gotuaco continued to make her mark abroad as she swept the gold medals in a US ranking tournament in Massachusetts and scooped up one more in the tough US Nationals in Ohio recently.
IT WOULD be unfair and down-right unpatriotic to simply ignore the Olympic bids of the Filipino athletes going to London this July.
