As track greats Lydia de Vega and Elma Muros Posadas along with Tokyo Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo have shown, there is so much outstanding local athletic talents just w…
Davao City's promising karatekas Robert Dayanan Jr. and Heleina So with Tokyo Olympic weightlifting gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz who received the Athlete of the Year award during the San Miguel Corporation-Philippine Sportswriters Association Awards Night held at the Diamond Hotel grand ballroom on Monday . Dayanan and So were awarded the Tony Siddayao Award for their accomplishment in karatedo.
Now the Mayor of Laoag City in Ilocos Norte province, Keon revealed he had talked with Philippine Sports Commission chairperson Richard “Dickie” Bachmann last week on how the sports agency could accomplish this goal. A former athlete himself, Keon was grateful for the opportunity in shaping the celebrated athletic career of Diay, De Vega’s nickname, lamenting she could have attained greater heights had she focused on the women’s 400-meter race instead of the glamorous 100 and 200-meter sprint events.
But he pointed out that “this does not detract from her being the Asian Games gold medalist twice, it does not detract from that,” referring to the comely sprinter’s back-to-back gold medals in the century dash in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi and the 1986 Seoul Asiad. “Nagbunga ang lahat ng sacrifices, juggling ko sa studies, an athlete, at sa military , and as a wife of my husband Julius Naranjo,” said the weightlifting standout, who was cited as PSA Athlete of the Year for the fourth time for her golden treble at the world weightlifting championships in Bogota, Colombia last December.
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