THE man who sparked the renaissance of Philippine sports shares the spotlight in the January 27 staging of the San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association (SMC-PSA) Annual Awards Night at the grand ballroom of the Manila Hotel.
THE man who sparked the renaissance of Philippine sports shares the spotlight in the January 27 staging of the San Miguel Corp.-Philippine Sportswriters Association Annual Awards Night at the grand ballroom of the Manila Hotel.
With Tolentino—also president of the PhilCycling and mayor of Tagaytay City—at the helm and waving the baton, Team Philippines achieved its best-ever showing in its 100 hundred years of Olympic participation highlighted by the country’s very first double gold medal performance courtesy of gymnastics wonder boy Carlos Yulo.
The 24-year-old gymnast is the undisputed choice as 2024 Athlete of the Year by the country’s oldest media organization headed Nelson Beltran, sports editor of The Philippine Star. It was also under Tolentino’s leadership when weightlifting icon Hidilyn Diaz delivered the Philippines’ first-ever gold in the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Games by topping the women’s 55 kgs class in record fashion.
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