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HANGZHOU—There is a reason why basketball in a multi-sports event like the Asian Games or Southeast Asian Games will always be the gold that matters most to Filipinos.
That’s the weight and worth of Gilas Pilipinas’ achievement here, when the team won the Asian Games gold medal, its first in 61 years since the 1962 squad of basketball great Caloy Loyzaga was crowned kings of the region in the Jakarta games.
Marcial settled for silver in his first foray in boxing’s light heavyweight division, a heavier category than the middleweight class where he clinched bronze in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics two years ago. Tolentino stayed mum after Ernest John “EJ” Obiena expectedly won the men’s pole vault title in an Asian Games’ record of 5.75, which he reset to 5.90 meters for the country’s first gold medal in these games host China has dominated from the start.
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