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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.
Here are six interesting facts about the Olympics as the 2024 Paris Games kick off on July 26.
Filipino athletes have won a total of eighteen Olympic medals (as of 2024 Summer Olympics), with boxing as the top medal-producing sport. [1] On July 26, 2021, the Philippines clinched its first gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , with Hidilyn Diaz winning the Women's 55 kg event in Weightlifting . [ 2 ]
August 8 – Nesthy Petecio wins the bronze medal at the women's featherweight division of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France after losing to Julia Szeremeta of Poland via split decision. [75] August 10 – Dave Apolinario loses against Ángel Ayala of Mexico for the vacant IBF flyweight championship via knockout in the sixth round. [76]
Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after getting a large wave in the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti ...
Even to the passive or occasional viewer, the 2024 Olympics proved one thing: We are, to borrow a phrase, so back. The quadrennial event serves many functions — a celebration of sport, obviously ...
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and other venues in Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti in the overseas country of French Polynesia. Competition began on 24 July with the first matches in the group stages of football and rugby sevens events.
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