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                    [ArticleID] => 1333546
                    [Title] => Eyewitness to  Olympic travesty
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At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Filipino Anthony Villanueva battled Russian Stanislav Stepashkin for the boxing gold medal in the featherweight division.

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Round One. Villanueva connected with a long jab to the head of the Russian. The Russian countered with a right to the body. Villanueva’s forehead began to bleed. The two fighters exchanged right hooks to the head.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 97737 [Title] => Dayrit comes to rescue of Villanueva [Summary] =>

Philippine Olympic Committee president Celso Dayrit said the Olympic silver medal belongs to its winner, 1964 Tokyo boxing runner-up Anthony Villanueva, and vowed to help raise funds that will be loaned to him to avoid the prized medal from falling into hands of third parties.

"The Olympic medal belongs to him, it's his to keep and cherish and it's a national treasure," said Dayrit, reacting to a news report that Villanueva, now 54 and the country's first Olympic silver medalist, wanted to sell his medal for P1 million for the upkeep of his family.

"We must know his plan fir [DatePublished] => 2000-01-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => Eyewitness to  Olympic travesty
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At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Filipino Anthony Villanueva battled Russian Stanislav Stepashkin for the boxing gold medal in the featherweight division.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1322983 [Title] => Villanueva-Stepashkin final: Round by round [Summary] =>

Round One. Villanueva connected with a long jab to the head of the Russian. The Russian countered with a right to the body. Villanueva’s forehead began to bleed. The two fighters exchanged right hooks to the head.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 97737 [Title] => Dayrit comes to rescue of Villanueva [Summary] =>

Philippine Olympic Committee president Celso Dayrit said the Olympic silver medal belongs to its winner, 1964 Tokyo boxing runner-up Anthony Villanueva, and vowed to help raise funds that will be loaned to him to avoid the prized medal from falling into hands of third parties.

"The Olympic medal belongs to him, it's his to keep and cherish and it's a national treasure," said Dayrit, reacting to a news report that Villanueva, now 54 and the country's first Olympic silver medalist, wanted to sell his medal for P1 million for the upkeep of his family.

"We must know his plan fir [DatePublished] => 2000-01-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )

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