After winning the Asian Games gold medal in record fashion last Saturday, EJ Obiena will get something he truly deserves: time to rest.
“Oh, I’m resting,” said the new king of Asian pole vault who flew home to Manila yesterday morning, accompanied by his father, Emerson, barely hours after he delivered the first gold for Team Philippines at the 19th Asian Games here.
“We’ll let him rest first,” said Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association president Terry Capistrano the morning after Obiena’s sensational performance.“I’m not thinking about it now,” added Obiena. Capistrano said Obiena’s victory over China’s Huang Bokai and Saudi Arabia’s Hussain Al Hizam at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium seemed like “routine.”
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