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THE Philippine curling team went unbeaten in a pre-Olympic qualification event at the Curl Aberdeen in Scotland over the weekend to move tantalizingly close to qualifying for the 2026 Milan and Cortina <\/span>d\u2019Ampezzo<\/span> Winter Olympics in February.<\/span><\/p>\n The 2025 Asian Winter Games gold medal-winning team of heritage athletes Marc Pfister, Christian Haller, Enrico Pfister, Brayden Carpenter and alternate Alan Frei automatically advanced to the Olympic Qualification 2025 event in Kelowna, British Columbia, in Canada from December 6 to 19.<\/span><\/p>\n The top two teams in Kelowna will qualify for the Winter Olympics set February 4 to 22.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re so happy to announce that our Philippine men\u2019s curling team is just a door step away from making it to Milan and Cortina <\/span>d\u2019Ampezzo<\/span>,\u201d Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham \u201c<\/span>Bambol<\/span>\u201d Tolentino said.<\/span><\/p>\n The same team beat South Korea, 5-3, in the men\u2019s team final in Harbin last February for a historic first gold medal for the Philippines in any winter sports games.<\/span><\/p>\n In Aberdeen, the Pfister and company went unblemished with victories Pfister Denmark, 7-4; Chinese Taipei, 10-0; New Zealand, 6-5; Australia, 9 (7)-4; and Poland, 7-2.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey performed really well in Scotland and we are proud of them. We expect them to advance, and we are calling the entire nation for support and prayers,\u201d Tolentino said. \u201cWe are also hoping that the PSC [Philippine Sports Commission] support their campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ten countries<\/span>\u2014120 quotas or 60 in each of the men and women categories\u2014plus host Italy will qualify for the Winter Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n Men\u2019s teams from Czechia, Poland and New Zealand and Germany and Australia\u2019s women\u2019s squads also made the qualifiers in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Philippine curling team went unbeaten in a pre-Olympic qualification event at the Curl Aberdeen in Scotland over the weekend to move tantalizingly close to qualifying for the 2026 Milan and Cortina d\u2019Ampezzo Winter Olympics in February. The 2025 Asian Winter Games gold medal-winning team of heritage athletes Marc Pfister, Christian Haller, Enrico Pfister, Brayden…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-philippine-olympic-committee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t