{"id":26010,"date":"2018-02-15T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=26010"},"modified":"2022-05-25T19:14:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:14:05","slug":"two-filipino-athletes-to-compete-in-2018-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2018\/02\/15\/two-filipino-athletes-to-compete-in-2018-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Filipino athletes to compete in 2018 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino athletes Michael Martinez and Asa Miller will be carrying the Philippine flag in the ongoing 2018 Winter Olympics being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Martinez, who will be representing the Philippines in the figure skating category, is replacing Swedish skater Alexander Majorov who pulled out from the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>On the other hand, Asa Miller will be competing in the alpine skiing event. The 17-year old Miller was also Philippines\u2019 flag bearer during the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics held last February 9.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BfAq0NghM4I\/?taken-by=asa.miller<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>IMAGE @asamiller on Instagram<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Martinez is scheduled to compete on February 16 at 9 am while Miller on February 18.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 Winter Olympics is currently ongoing which started from February 9 and ends on February 25. This year marks the first time for South Korea to host the said multisport event that will feature 102 events in 15 different sports.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/sports\/specials\/olympics\/195834-winter-olympics-pyeongchang-south-korea-philippines-michael-martinez-asa-miller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rappler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/pyeongchang-2018\/results\/en\/alpine-skiing\/athlete-profile-n3029250-asa-miller.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olympic.org<\/a>, Images grabbed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/news\/manila-on-ice-yog-athlete-michael-christian-martinez-creates-history-for-the-philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">olympic.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/642461\/fil-am-skier-asa-miller-to-compete-in-the-winter-olympics\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gmanetwork.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippines, represent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5307,5306,5305],"class_list":["post-26010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-asa-miller","tag-michael-martinez","tag-winter-olympics"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/02\/olympics-e1518676810449.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65268,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions\/65268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}