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Boxer lost to Ghanian... no more hope... Philippines has poor support for olympics that's why we only sent 15 athletes..
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how about the guys & gals who won on the demonstration sport of "wushu" we got 1-2-2 there?Comment
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Damn only 15 people in the olympics......every other country had about 100+, dont you guys do any sportsComment
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what's wrong with that? PI is small country compare to other.
Not every other country had it pal.
Afghan has 4 athletes (who got their 1st medal)
Albania has 11
and so on... But when it comes to Asian or SEA games they were more competitive cuz they can beat some of their fellow asians not like elimination for the olympics.Comment
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if billiards/pool was on the olympics. we should have at least one gold medal in the olympics
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^Billiards! And Bowling too.
I couldn't imagine the Pinoys losing on these games.
I just wikied these two ATG's.
Rafael 'Paeng' Nepomuceno
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Rafael "Paeng" Nepomuceno[1] (born January 30, 1957 in Manila) is a Filipino and is a 6-Time World Bowling Champion and is acknowledged as the greatest international bowler in the history of the sport. He has won the World Cup of Bowling four times in three different decades:
In Tehran, Iran on November 19, 1976
In Jakarta, Indonesia on November 1, 1980
In Le Mans, France on November 8, 1992
In Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 23, 1996
Nepomuceno's two other world titles are from winning the World's Invitational Tournament which was participated by the World's best bowlers and was held in Sam's Town bowling center in Las Vegas, Nevada on August 8, 1984 which was a global event to showcase the sport in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Paeng also won the World Tenpin Masters championship in London, England on March 7, 1999. He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for three records: 1) for being the only athlete in the world to win world titles in three different decades- 70's,80's and the 90's, 2) for being the youngest ever to win the Bowling World Cup (at 19 years of age), and 3) for having the most number of career chamionships worldwide.[1]. In total, Paeng has won 118 career international championship tournament titles in five continents. Paeng who still actively competes up to this day is the only bowling athlete to have won championship titles in the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Paeng is the Philippines' most decorated athlete. He is the only bowling athlete in the world who has received the prestigious International Olympic Committee President's Trophy which is the highest sports award that can be given to an athlete. Paeng was the first international male bowling athlete to be enshrined in the International Bowling Hall of Fame and Museum based in St. Louis, Missouri in 1993 and his seven foot image is displayed at the entrance of the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame .In November 1999, the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ) named Paeng as the "International Bowling Athlete of the Millennium."
In a ceremony held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates during the World Championships, an FIQ official cited Paeng with these words: "No international bowling athlete is more deserving of recognition than Paeng. In addition to his long list of well-known achievements as a world champion in three decades, Paeng truly has been and continues to be an extraordinary ambassador for Filipino sport."
Paeng is the only athlete in the Philippines who has been given the highest award to a Filipino by three Philippine presidents. In 1984, Paeng was awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit by President Ferdinand E. Marcos. In 1999, President Joseph E. Estrada awarded the Philippine Legion of Honor and in 2008, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo awarded Paeng, the Order of Lakandula with Class of Champion for Life and was declared Best Filipino athlete of all time. Both the Philippine Senate and House of Congress has declared Paeng the "Greatest Philippine Athlete of All Time".
In its September 2003 issue, the Prestigious Bowlers Journal International named Paeng as the Greatest International Bowler of All Time.
Paeng was named Athlete of the Century by the Philippine Sportswriters Association in the end of 1999 and Athlete of the Millennium in 2000. He was also named Philippine Athlete of the year 5 times by the Philippine Sportswriters Association which is a record in most number of times named Athlete of the Year.
Paeng has been honored by being chosen to be the Philippine Flag Bearer of the Philippine Delegation in various World Games, Asian Games and the South East Asian Games.
Paeng was named World Bowler of the Year three times (1984,1985 and 1992) by the World Bowling Writers. He was also a TOYM awardee for sports in 1978 and he is the youngest up to this date to have received this prestigious award given by the Philippine Jaycees.
At present Paeng has been designated by the USBC (United States Bowling Congress) as its International Bowling Ambassador for Bowling and promotes bowling around the world and he also Certifies Coaches for USBC. He is available for clinics and appearances.
Efren Reyes
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Efren Reyes (born August 26, 1954) is a Filipino professional pool player from Angeles City and a 2-time world champion. Reyes is considered to be one of the all-time greats in the games of nine ball and one-pocket. He is often known by his nickname "Bata", and was also referred to as "The Magician" (see "Nicknames and aliases" below for more detail).
Background
Reyes was born in Pampanga in 1954 and moved to Manila with his family, at the age of 5. In Manila, he worked as a billiards attendant at his uncle's billiards hall, where he started learning the various cue sports. Because he was not tall enough to reach the pool table, he played while standing on Coca-cola cases that he moved around. At night, while he was dreaming of playing pool, the pool table was his bed.
He is called "Bata", which is Filipino for "Kid", because there was another older pool player named Efren when he was young. To determine which Efren onlookers were referring to, he was nicknamed Efren "Bata" or the "Kid".
At a young age, he played for money, and in the sixties and seventies, played carambola billiards (also known as three cushion billiards). After establishing himself as a winner, he was discovered by promoters. This gave him the opportunity to compete in big time tournaments.
Reyes began winning a number of tournaments in the US, Europe and in parts of Asia. Thus, he started to gain attention and recognition worldwide. In fact at the start of his career he would use "aliases" to hide his true identity just so as to be allowed to compete. By the mid-1990s, he became one of the elite players of the Philippines alongside Jose Parica and Francisco Bustamante.
Notable successes in pool
The fame of Efren Reyes began when he won the US Open Nine Ball Championship in 1994 by defeating Nick Varner in the finals. He was the first non-American ever to win the event.
A couple of years later, Efren Reyes and Earl Strickland were chosen to face each other in an event called the Color of Money, named after the movie. The event was a 3-day race-to-120 challenge match of 9-ball. It was held in Hong Kong and has a winner-take-all prize of $100K. Reyes won the match 120-117 and the big prize. This was the largest single-winning purse in a pool event.
Although Earl Strickland was the first to win the WPA World 9-ball Championship, Reyes, in 1999, became the first to win it broadcast on television. Note - this tournament was not recognised at the time by the WPA, but Reyes was later retrospectively acknowledged as the winner of one of two world championships held in 1999. Nick Varner won the other than-"official" world title, but this was a much smaller scale event than the one Reyes won. The two tournaments were merged for the following year, with both men listed as the champion for 1999. At the time, the Matchroom Sport-organised event in Cardiff, Wales, was called the World Professional Pool Championship (despite the entry of many non-professional players).
Efren Reyes posing with fan after he won an historic US$200,000 at the 2005 IPT King of the Hill ShootoutIn 2001, Reyes won the International Billiard Tournament. The event was held in Tokyo, and had over 700 players and total purse of ¥100M ($850K). Reyes dominated the event by beating Niels Feijen in the finals 15-7 and earned the ¥20M[1]($170K) first prize. At the time, this was biggest first prize in a pool tournament.
By 2002, he won the $50K winner-take-all International Challenge of Champions. Reyes won the event, defeating Mika Immonen in a deciding rack after both players splitted sets.[2]
Then, in 2003, he became the first Asian to be inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame.[3]
Near the end of 2004, Reyes beat Marlon Manalo to become the first-ever WPA World Eight Ball Champion. With the win, he became the first player in WPA history to win two world championships of different disciplines.
In December 2005, Reyes won the IPT King of the Hill 8-Ball Shootout. Reyes won a record-breaking $200K for first place by beating fellow Hall of Fame member Mike "the Mouth" Sigel two sets to none (8-0 and 8-5).
In 2006, Reyes and Francisco Bustamante represented their country as Team Philippines in the inaugural World Cup of Pool. They defeated Team USA, formed by Earl Strickland and Rodney Morris, to capture the title
That same year, Reyes won the IPT World Open Eight-ball Championship over Rodney Morris 8-6. He earned $500K which was the largest prize money tournament in the history of pocket billiards. Unfortunately, he hasn't claimed much of this as of 2007 due financial problems of the IPT.
For 2007, he was ranked #2 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.[4]Comment
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