Here’s a good example of a positive unified effort, which can be said that is somewhat opposite of athlete mutiny. A relatively unknown sport, which can also mean that it’s not highly commercialised, ergo, no sponsors, ergo, no money. But how did the Philippines send a Women’s Futsal Team to the last 24th SEA Games in Thailand? Well, technically, they did at no expense.
Believe it or not, these women worked hard to get their arses to Games. And I don’t mean just the training here. I’m talking about raising the money and pooling funds they need in order to compete.

Just a quick shout out to all Filipino athletes who competed in the 24th South East Asian Games, finishing at 6th is a great achievement! You make us all proud! You guys won a total of 41 gold medals out of 228 medals in total! Yay!
I know there are people out there thinking that this is the worst performance by the country’s delegates esp coming from the last SEA Games wherein we ranked 1st. Then comparing the ratio of the medal tally among those ranked higher.
I believe you guys did the best you could and will be open to …read more

Pétanque is a form of the game Boules, which is quite popular in France. According to Wikipedia, it’s a form of boules where the goal is to throw metal balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (jack). The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel, but can also be played on grass or other surfaces.
The game is always played in teams, usually in three different configurations such as (a) three players per team (two boules per player), called triplets; (b) two players per team (three boules per player), called doublets; and (c) …read more

You guys may be wondering what exactly is Sepak Takraw, well, it’s a local version of an organised hackey sack game only it uses a different sort of “sack”. According to Wikipedia, it is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan ball and only allows players to use their feet and head to touch the ball. A cross between soccer and volleyball, it is a popular sport in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos, Philippines and Indonesia.
Takraw means “kick” in Thai.
Sepak Takraw is also called Takraw for short or a Westernised term used is Kick …read more

Just listing down this year’s sports disciplines or events you can expect in the coming 2007 SEA Games that will be held in Thailand.
* Archery
* Aquatics
* Athletics
* Badminton
* Basketball
* Billiards and Snooker
* Bodybuilding
* Boxing
* Bowling
* Canoe/Kayak
* Chess

The XXIV South East Asian Games will be held in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from December 6 to December 16, 2007. This will be the sixth time that the country will host the SEA Games. Other years that Thailand played host were 1959, 1967, 1975, 1985 and 1995 SEA Games.
Singapore was supposedly the host for this year’s SEA Games, however, by 2004 they gave up the privilege since one of the venues that was supposed to have been used for the Games was still under construction.
South East Asian Games is a biannual multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 …read more

This is a question raised in a forum of a local media network and I think it’s a good question to ask. It got varied responses, some negative, and the others are really great suggestions.
Someone brought up the issue of athletes playing just for the money. My two cents on the matter, I reckon as long as media plays a huge role in sports, the question about commercialism will always be raised. [End of thought]
As for my country, Philippines, competing globally, it will take a lot of organisation and cooperation from the sports industry, the government and, of course, the …read more