YANQING, China Chef de Mission Bones Floro expects Asa Miller to move on from Sunday morning’s men’s giant slalom disappointment, while fellow Team Philippines official Jim Apelar blamed the weather not Miller for the poor results that saw a third of the participants failing to complete their first runs. “Even if it wasn’t…
YANQING, China Asa Miller skied down the Ice River for a little over 15 seconds before crashing out and so did 32 others out of the 84 on the start list of men’s giant slalom of alpine skiing in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Sunday morning. “It was certainly a bummer,”…
The Philippines has only one entrant in the Beijing Olympics: Asa Miller, who will take part in the men's giant slalom Sunday. But there's growing interest in winter sports in the tropical country.
BEIJING Top officials from the Philippines’s consulate general in the Chinese capital warmly welcomed the arrival of the Philippines’s lone athlete competing in the 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Ambassador Jose Santiago L. Sta. Romana greeted Asa Miller in a special video conference on February 1, with Jim Apelar (president of the…
YANQING, China Asa Miller vies in the men’s giant slalom of alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in four days bringing with him modest improvements since his Games debut in Pyeongchang 2018. He’s humble with his goal, knowing pretty well that the field of 150 athletes that will line…