ICYMI: POC bares plans to immortalize the late Lydia de Vega at Olympic museum in Tarlac
immortalize the Filipina track and field superstar at the POC Olympic Museum in New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac.
The section will be made up of a wall where all of De Vega’s achievements will be displayed for the public to see.Stephanie Mercado-Koenigswarter, and mother, Mary, when he visited De Vega’s wake at the Heritage Park in Taguig City on Saturday morning. “Her achievements in the Southeast Asian Games, Asian Championships and Asian Games, among others, will be immoratlized there in the museum. She’ll be an inspiration to all aspiring athletes,” the POC president said.“This is the first time that the POC will have a home of its own. And a museum will be built to aptly highlight this home,” said the POC president.She was best remembered as the most dominant sprinter in Asia in the 1980s.
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