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Philippines' Olympic flop -- 19 August 2008

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Philippines' Olympic flop -- 19 August 2008

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Al Jazeera English

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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.