Category: Sports

RIO DE JANEIRO — During the fourth quarter of the Argentina-U.S. men’s basketball game, with the Americans’ lead bouncing between 25 and 28 points, the crowd here began going wild. First, it was the Argentinians who were singing and cheering, in part because that’s what Argentina basketball fans do and in part because the scoreboard […]

(Brazil)  Although small team, many attending their first world Olympic event, the young Palauan athletes have managed to not only beat their national records but manage to put Palau’s names with some of the bigger and more experienced countries in the world. [restrict] Starting with Ub Misech being first in her first heat and Rodman […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — American LaShawn Merritt won the bronze in the 400-meter here Sunday. America should cheer for this, cheer for him. Not simply because an American won bronze. Americans are so jaded by piles of gold medals, bronzes hardly register anymore. They should. Merritt ran a blistering 43.85 seconds. The winner, Wayde Van […]

August 8th – After the exciting week and the Opening Ceremony, Team Palau Athletes and Management team including Chef de Mission Ms. Frida Delmau and Palau NOC Secretary General Ms. Baklai Temengil visited the National Olympic Committee (NOC) Service Center.  NOC Service Center is the management  Olympics that has assigned an assistant each National Olympic […]

Palau Swimming Association is excited to announce the start of the next session of swim lessons, kicking off on Tuesday, August 16th. Lessons will run for a total of seven weeks and will be held every Tuesday and Thursday, from 3pm to 5pm at the National Pool in Meyuns. [restrict] The program is directed by […]

RIO DE JANEIRO – Wednesday night, they hung another gold medal around Katie Ledecky’s neck. Now it’s back to business. In a preliminary heat Thursday and the final Friday, Katie Ledecky will finish grinding the world to dust. She will defend her 800-meter freestyle Olympic title, winning by half a pool length, and probably take […]