compete in regular competition. The national team is known as the Volcanoes and competes in the Asia Rugby Championship and the Asian Sevens Series. Sports leagues The following are the main domestic leagues (or de facto top-flight leagues) in the Philippines. Olympics and Paralympics The Philippines has participated in all editions of the Olympics except in 1980 when it joined the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. The country is also the first tropical nation to participate at the Winter Olympics, debuting at the 1972 edition and has participated in three other edition of the winter games. The Philippines has also participated in the Summer Paralympics although it has still to make its debut in the Winter Paralympics. The country won its first Olympic gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics through weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz. All time medal count For ASEAN University Games, Arafura Games, Games of the New Emerging Forces, and FESPIC Games data is not complete. As 2021 Regional Hosting World and Continental Championship hosting Domestic multi-sport competitions The Philippine government organizes the Palarong Pambansa, the national games for student-athletes in the country which often serves as a route for Filipinos to be scouted to national teams of their respective sports. Other domestic games include the Philippine National Games and the Batang Pinoy. Corruption and mismanagement Graft and corruption are major issues in the Philippine sports industry. Graham Lim, a former secretary general of the Basketball Association of the Philippines, a former POC-recognized national federation for basketball, said in a The Manila Times article that politics and monopoly in Philippine sports started when the present leaders, including Peping Cojuangco, the then Philippine Olympic Committee president and his golfer-friend Richie Garcia, the then chairman of the Philippine Sports Commission, took over the control of the sporting sector in 2005 that made Philippine athletes to suffer decline and deterioration on their high-caliber quality due to corruption and politicking. In 2009, Lim was arrested and later declared an "undesirable alien" by the Department of Justice due to countless deportation cases, in connection with his questionable citizenship, said that the deportation order is issued because the pressure pushed by his arch-rivals Manny V. Pangilinan, the then head of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, the later-recognized NSA for basketball and Cojuangco. Lim also exposed a top government official, through a deputy has asked 6 million pesos to settle the case, also he