Tshomlee Go is Out

Philippine best bet to finally bring home the elusive gold has just been eliminated in the preliminaries. It is a sad day for the Philippines for Taekwondo jinn Tshomlee Go lost Ryan Carneli of Australia in the preliminaries round of 16. If Go defeated Carneli he would have qualified in the quarterfinals,then semifinals then finals. The final round of the men's 58 kg is between Guillermo Perez of Mexico and Yulis Mercedes of the Dominican Republic. Keeping my fingers crossed for Antoinette Rivero.

Rivero at Preliminaries

Philippine Taekwondo jin Maria Antoinette Rivero will have her Round 16 preliminaries on August 22 at 10:00 A.M. (GMT+8) at the USTB gymnasium. She will go against Sandra Saric of Croatia. Saric has the height advantage at 5'9" against Rivero's 5'7". However, at Athens, Rivero was ranked 5 while Saric 11. The Rivero alternates between the lightweight and welterweight categories while Saric falls either in the welterweight and middleweight categories. For Beijing, they are bidding for the 67kg.(welterweight) female category. Go Antoinette!

Taekwondo Jins

The Philippine's quest for an Olympic gold rests on the shoulders of two jins - Tshomlee Go and Mary Antoinette Rivero. The two trained in Korea for two months. both athletes failed to land a medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics four. This time they are confident they will be able to finally bring home the elusive gold medal for the country. The closest bid for the elusive gold was that of Mansueto "Onyok" velasco when he won the silver medal in boxing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Will the 84 year-old Olympic medal gold quest finally ends this time? Good luck Tshomlee and Antoinette.