Team Philippines at Paris Olympics 2024 Schedule August 6
Philippine Time
- 1 am – EJ Obiena – men’s pole vault final
- 4:50 am – John Cabang Tolentino – men’s 110m hurdles
EJ Obiena can quench athletics’ 88-year thirst for Olympics medal
FILE–Filipino pole vaulter EJ Obiena is set to begin his Paris Olympics 2024 campaign.
If EJ Obiena lives up to his billing and produces a podium finish in the Paris Olympics, he will put an end to the country’s decades-long wait for a medal in athletics.
Obiena can snuff out an 88-year drought should he come up with a worthy performance in the men’s vault event.
It was back in 1936 when Miguel White picked up a bronze in the men’s 400-meter hurdles of the Games held in Berlin. FULL STORY
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