Sports Tourism is Well and Alive By Charles Lim - July 2022 Yes, Sports Tourism is alive and well! In a span of just a week I was grinning silly…

Would Ironman, Spartan, Ultraman, Road Warriors, X-men (for Xtera) and hundreds, if not thousands of other treasured title races all over the world, force the COVID19 off course and abandon its devastating run?

The pandemic continues to press on but the Games have slowly but surely made a comeback in Clark City, thanks to a “bubble” adapted in sporting tournaments.

Highest salutations to our 19 Filipino Olympians. Win or medal-less you did the nation proud. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be scripted in gold in our sports annals.

Nope, football isn’t coming home this year to England as Italy beat the Three Lions by penalty shoot-out after a tense game that went into extra time in the 2020 Euro finals.

At Euro 2020, four nations are left to fight for the title this week. Italy play Spain in the first semi-final on Tuesday and England take on Denmark on Wednesday with the finals to be played on July 11.

Put yourself in the bubble in Clark and you will burst out giddy-head and elated. Brilliant Gilas! Brilliant SBP! Brilliant Clark!

While the world hold it’s breath and focus it’s attention on Tokyo in the coming weeks, even the most optimistic, have apprehensions if the 2020 Summer Olympics, delayed for a year, will ever begin on July 23. Exhale.

In less than 70 days, albeit any calamitous and uncontrollable surge of coronavirus cases in Japan, the Tokyo Olympics will be declared open on July 23, 2021, after a delay of one year.

March 24, 2020 – a nightmare begins. With heartbreak but with supreme grace and Japanese courage, the Organizing Committee of the 2020 Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with the Japanese government announced the postponement of the 2020 Games, four months before the start of the Summer Games.