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Video: Gold elusive for Philippines
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Philippines’ Olympic flop
In any Olympic games most of the attention and money go to winning athletes from countries that invest heavily in sports.
But for many developing nations gold medals remain out of reach despite their people’s love of sport.
The Philippines is one such country which always ends up punching below its weight in the Olympic arena, as Al Jazeera’s Marga Ortigas reports.
Published On 20 Aug 2008
20 Aug 2008