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The Philippines competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, celebrating the centenary of the team's debut in the same city.Filipino athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games from 1924 onwards, except for Moscow 1980 when the nation was part of the American-led boycott.
The Philippine Olympic Committee fielded a team of 19 athletes, nine men and ten women, to compete in eleven different sports at the Games. The Philippines marked its Olympic debut in skateboarding (new to the 2020 Games), as well as its return to gymnastics and rowing.
The Philippines is the first tropical nation to compete at the Winter Olympic Games when it sent two alpine skiers at the 1972 winter games in Sapporo. [7] It then went on to participate on some of the subsequent winter games, participating in the sports of alpine skiing and luge .
The wins made Yulo the second person ever to take home gold for the Philippines after weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz won the women’s 55-kilogram event in 2021 at the Tokyo Games.
The Philippine Olympic Committee aimed for the delegation to match or surpass its previous record of four gold medals in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang. [8] [9] The Philippine Sports Commission organized a sending off ceremony for the delegation on 18 September 2023 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay. [10]
A 73-69 win over Germany set up a rematch of the Tokyo Olympics gold medal game against Team USA. Olympic men's basketball bracket Quarterfinals: Tuesday, Aug. 6
[4] [5] The government's Philippine Sports Commission provided ₱3.3 million funding for the athlete's Olympic campaign. [6] The Philippines attempted to qualify two figure skaters for the Olympics [7] and an athlete in short track speed skating. [8] Asa Miller, the country's lone competitor, was the country's flagbearer during the opening ...
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