Looking back, the section, born in a snap with the first issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Dec. 9, 1985, has never missed a beat in its triumphant mission to chronicle significant events both in the world and national sports fields.

In fact, the first PDI sports headline blares "Navyman triumphs." In that story, J.R. Alibutud reports that "unheralded, Wilfredo Ballester, trailing all the way, swept past a fading Allan Pico with less than three kilometers left to bag the 13th Milo Marathon at the Cultural Center."

It was a Monday, with the section also carrying the Associated Press story on Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej lighting the flame of the 13th Southeast Asian Games.

From one SEA Games to another.

It's no plain coincidence that the PDI sports section marks
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