PH bets head to exits early
By Ted S. MelendresThe rate it is going, a third Filipino in the country’s tiny 11-athlete delegation will become a tourist at the 30th London Olympics here Tuesday.
The rate it is going, a third Filipino in the country’s tiny 11-athlete delegation will become a tourist at the 30th London Olympics here Tuesday.
Hidilyn Diaz crashed out of women’s weightlifting’s 58-kilogram competition without clearing her opening lift and skeet shooter Brian Rosario struggled in the windy firing line Monday at the 30th London Olympics here.
Filipino lady weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz came up short for a podium finish in the women’s 58kg in the 2012 London Olympics but it was enough to make her country proud.
There’s no need for the Jim Croce song to inspire Hidilyn Diaz. The 21-year-old Zamboangeña, who will become the first female athlete ever to carry the Filipino flag at the opening ceremony of a Summer Olympic Games, would be unable to store her date with history in a bottle.
Good at lifting weights, Hidilyn Diaz was the logical choice to carry the national flag in the opening rites of the London Olympics.
A neophyte in the last Olympics, weightlifting’s Hidilyn Diaz is expected to be a contender in her second stint in sports’ biggest stage.
Three weight-lifters led by Olympic hopeful Hidilyn Diaz broke national records yesterday as the favorites continued their show of might in the POC-PSC National Games here.
Beijing Olympian Hidilyn Diaz and Asian Youth and Junior gold medalist Nestor Colonia may just make it to the London Olympics after their impressive showing at the recent World Weightlifting Championships in Paris.
The next generation of weightlifting stars may have been found here at the Mindanao qualifying round of Batang Pinoy 2011.
And they carry familiar surnames.
BACOLOD CITY—Hidilyn Diaz veritably stood way over her 4-foot-11 frame yesterday after shattering six records in the here. The 20-year-old lifter from Zamboanga City reset her own marks in the women’s Open and junior 58-kilogram categories of the weightlifting competitions that saw a total of 15 national records fall all on the same day at [...]
