POLE vaulter Ernest John "EJ" Obiena and gymnast Carlos Yulo are poised to become the first Filipino athletes to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Thanks to specified tournaments that could key their outright Olympic qualification, Obiena and Yulo, who both competed in the 2021 Tokyo Games, don't have to accumulate points through a series of qualifiers.

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