Eight Filipino athletes are competing at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Bogota all wanting to be like their idol—Olympic champion Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo. Know more:
EIGHT Filipino athletes are competing at the International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Bogota all wanting to be like their idol—Olympic champion Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo.“They all have the potentials and the talent to become the best,” Diaz-Naranjo told BusinessMirror on the eve of the start of the world championships in Colombia’s capital on Monday. “All I can advise to my fellow weightlifters is to think long term.
Never doubt Diaz-Naranjo. Before winning the country’s first Olympic gold medal in Tokyo last year, she had to go on a long journey. But packed with two Olympic experience and older, wiser and stronger, she clinched silver in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Five years later—it could have been four if not for the pandemic—she struck gold ending the Philippines’s close to 100-year wait for that victory.
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