No one perhaps felt more frustrated outside of gymnast Carlos Edriel Yulo himself about the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics than Gymnastics Association of the Philippines president Cynthia Car
rion.
Up in the VIP lounge witnessing her countryman’s magnificent outing was Carrion, who recalled being teary-eyed over the gymnast’s feat that made him an overnight sports sensation. However, Carrion was banking on Yulo’s resilience, boldly predicting that the athlete might even meet expectations of ending the Philippines’ 97-year-old gold-medal drought next year.
Yulo scored 14.900 and 14.400 points in the vault and parallel bars, respectively, in his SEA Games debut in front of a sell-out crowd at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.
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