This year marks a historic surge for Philippine sports with athletes like Carlos Yulo, Hidilyn Diaz, and Rianne Malixi bringing home multiple gold medals and setting new records.
When weightlifting diva Hidilyn Diaz delivered the country’s historic Olympic gold medal in Tokyo three years ago, it laid the foundation of what will eventually turn out as the golden era of Philippine sports. Three years later, this memorable year, 2024, or exactly 100 years since the country first participated in the quadrennial summer sports spectacle, gymnastics demigod Carlos Yulo validated it with a pair of golden feats in the Paris Games.
It was a pair of smashing performances that reverberated back home in this tiny Southeast Asian nation of roughly 108 million.Finally, the country’s “Golden Era” for Philippine sports has arrived. Yulo did not only just replicate Diaz’s Tokyo magnificence; he also eclipsed it with a double-gold haul in the French capital where he dazzled everyone with a performance for the ages. He first dominated his pet event, the floor exercise, before returning 24 hours later and ruling the vault to carve his name in PH history books. Also bringing home more medals were boxers Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas, who managed with bronze apiece in their respective weight class. Golfer Rianne Malixi also made history after winning both the US Girls Junior and the US Women’s Amateur in the same year — becoming only the second player to accomplish that feat after Eun Jeong Seong in 2016. This year also has two veteran billiards players dominating the worlds with Carlo Biado winning the World 10-Ball Championship against Japan’s Naoyuki Oki last March, and Rubilen Amit finally capturing the WPA Women’s World 9-Ball title at the expense of China’s Chen Siming in Septembe
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