Asia Paraase, named after the 2006 Doha Asian Games her runner mother missed for her birth, does the family name proud after a dominating start to the 2024 Palarong Pambansa
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Winning by a good margin against other standout runners from all over the Philippines, the 17-year-old certainly did her name proud – not only her last, that’s a given, but surprisingly her first as well. “My mother was already training for the Asian Games, but she became pregnant with me. So when it was time to name me, she just passed that name to me,” she said in Filipino.
Perhaps passing the name of Sarah’s once-aspired event worked wonders, as her daughter Asia not only grew into a standout runner like her, but now also holds the dream of reaching the same Asian Games she once gave up.
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