Finally! After years despairing over the plight of Philippine sports, it looks like things are starting to look bright. And as if to signal the end of the long nightmarish journey, an unheralded Hidilyn Diaz gifts the country with an unexpected silver-medal finish in women’s weightlifting at the Rio Olympics.
Hidilyn Diaz breaks the 20-year Olympic drought with a silver medal finish.
It has been a long 20-year drought in the Olympics for the Philippines. The past decade had shown a clear deterioration in the country’s stature in international sports. And this was most evident in our standing in the recent SEA Games, where once again we ended a distant 6th in the medal standings, behind such less populous countries as Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.
Can the Philippines be a sports power? (courtesy of philstar.com)
But there was an exciting atmosphere of hope and energy when the new Philippine…
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