2 Filipino athletes fall short in respective 2024 Paris Olympics events

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00:00Two Filipina athletes failed to secure victories in their respective games today.

00:0526-year-old Filipina rower Joni Delgaco did not advance to the medal round in the women's single

00:11skulls event at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Vera Sur Marne Nautical Stadium. Delgaco

00:19finished the quarterfinals of the event in sixth place with a time of 7 minutes and 58.30 seconds.

00:26She struggled to move up to the fifth place by the 500-meter mark of the race before

00:32ultimately dropping to the last position by the end of the event. Two-time Olympic champion Emma

00:38Twigg of New Zealand clinched first place with a time of 7 minutes and 26.89 seconds. Due to this

00:46loss, Delgaco will join other rowers in the semifinal CD where they will compete for their

00:52respective standings tomorrow. Meanwhile, world-ranked 92nd Kiyomi Watanabe had an emotional

00:59return to the Olympics after losing to Chinese judoka Tang Jing via Ippon victory in the round

01:06of 32 of the women's minus-63-kilogram division match today. Tang used the Kuzuri Kesa Gatame,

01:14a grappling hold, to end the match in just 51 seconds. This marks Watanabe's second appearance

01:21at the quadrennial meet following a similar fate at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she was

01:28defeated by Spanish judoka Cristina Cabana-Perez in the opening round.