Philippines curling team chases Olympic dream with nothing to lose
The Japan TimesCenterEN 1 min read 100% complete by Aadi NairOctober 24, 2025 at 09:09 AM
AI Summary
short article 1 min
The Philippines men's curling team is making a final push to qualify for next year's Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. The team, formed just over two years ago and comprising Marc and Enrico Pfister, Christian Haller, Brayden Carpenter, and Alan Frei, aims to become the first Filipino team to compete in any Winter Games sport. After winning gold at this year’s Asian Winter Games in China, they secured a spot in the final Olympic qualifier by performing well in a recent pre-Olympic qualification event.
Key Topics & Entities
Keywords
curling team 90% philippines 80% milano-cortina winter olympics 80% olympic qualification 75% pre-olympic qualification event 70% asian winter games 65% final qualifier 60% dream of qualifying 55% tropical country 50%
Sentiment Analysis
Very Positive Score: 0.70
Source Transparency
Source
The Japan Times
Political Lean
Center (0.00)
Far LeftCenterFar Right
Classification Confidence
85%
Geographic Perspective
Philippines
This article was automatically classified using rule-based analysis. The political bias score ranges from -1 (far left) to +1 (far right).
Topic Connections
Explore how the topics in this article connect to other news stories
No topic relationship data available yet. This graph will appear once topic relationships have been computed.
curling teamphilippinesmilano-cortina winter olympicsolympic qualificationpre-olympic qualification eventasian winter gamesfinal qualifierdream of qualifyingtropical country
Explore Full Topic Graph