The International Swimming Federation, or FINA, officially confirmed and accepted the Philippine Swimming, Inc.’ entry of Jasmine Alkhaldi, Miranda Renner and Jonathan Cook to the 19th FINA World Championships slated Friday to July 3 in Budapest, Hungary. “FINA confirms that Mrs. Lailani Velasco, r
Luke Gebbie (MB File Photo) The Philippines lost one potential gold medal in swimming after Filipino-Australian Luke Michael Gebbie failed his RT-PCR test in time for his entry to Hanoi for the 31st Southeast Asian Games. The Tokyo Olympian Gebbie shared a silver medal in men’s 4x100 meters freest
MANILA - Filipino-Australian swimmer Luke Michael Gebbie failed his reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test at the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) in Hanoi, Vietnam, according to a news release on Saturday. The Tokyo Olympian owns the national records in 50-meter freestyle (22.57 seconds), where he snared bronze, and 50-meter butterfly (24.34 seconds), both set in the 2019 SEAG in Tarlac. He was also part of the silver-medal finish of the men's 4x100 meters freestyle relay team in the 2019 edition. Three other Filipino athletes in kickboxing initially tested positive for the Covid-19 but were cleared after a retest early last week. "Too bad he tested positive," Philippine Olympic Committee President, Rep. Abraham Tolentino, said. "That's one less medal a potential gold at that." The 15-member aquatics team will start competitions on May 8 with the diving events. On Sunday, the men's football team will face the host nation following its 4
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