CRASHED OUT. Fil-American Asa Miller checks out the course before the first run of the giant slalom on Sunday (Feb. 13, 2022). Miller crashed out just under 20 seconds into his first run in men's giant slalom of alpine skiing on a snowy Sunday morning leaving him with Wednesday's slalom to accomplish his modest goal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. (Contributed photo) YANQING, China - Asa Miller crashed out just under 20 seconds into his first run in men's giant slalom of alpine skiing on a snowy Sunday morning leaving him with Wednesday's slalom to accomplish his modest goal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Miller was focused on breaking the top 50 to improve on his 72nd-rank finish in his Olympic debut in Pyeongchang four years ago. But the weather didn't smile on Miller and 32 other competitions who registered DNF or Did Not Finish across their names and two not starting in the results list. They battled against falling snow-not the artificial type that o
YANQING, CHINA Asa Miller skipped training at the National Alpine Skiing Centre on Friday to rest his muscles following three consecutive days of practice session since arriving here on Monday morning. Also, Miller looked forward to bearing the country’s colors at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics which…
YANQING Asa Miller will be staying at a two-bedroom unit inside the elegant and state-of-the art Yanqing Olympic Athletes Village in northwest Beijing for the duration of the Winter Olympics. Chef de Mission Bones Floro and Athletes Welfare Officer Joebert Yu inspected Miller’s accommodation at the residential cluster which is composed…
THIS young man Carlo Paalam one of the country’s four medalists at last year’s Tokyo Olympics knows not only when and where to land a solid punch or bob his head and sway his body to avoid getting a solid blow. A scavenger when he was a kid, Paalam knows pretty well…
A CHEF DE MISSION meeting is set in early January as preparations shift to high gear with under only five months before the 31st Southeast Asian Games opening ceremony in Hanoi on May 12 next year, according to Philippine Olympic Committee President Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino on Sunday. The meeting…