Kayla Sanchez will compete for the Philippines in the Paris Olympics three years after helping Canada win a pair of medals in the Tokyo Games
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“It has always been on my mind being able to represent the Philippines,” the 23-year-old Sanchez toldBorn in Singapore to Filipino parents Noel and Susana, Sanchez and her family moved to Canada, where she started swimming at the age of four initially as a weekly activity until she got better and took the sport more seriously.
There, Sanchez came close to becoming the first Filipino swimmer to win an Asian Games medal since 1998, finishing fifth in the women’s 100m freestyle and sixth in the women’s 50m backstroke.
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