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Family, fans, well-wishers and supporters surprised Paris Olympics-bound fencer Samantha Catantan with their presence at the airport.A SERIES of training camps in Manila, Italy and France is being readied for Samantha Catantan to prepare her well for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Family, fans, well-wishers and supporters surprised Catantan with their presence when she stepped into the airport’s arrival area, following a flight from New York with her boyfriend, also a fencer, Aidan Johnson. Her mom Aileen, her sisters Sophie and Janna were around, along with Quezon City councilor Joseph Juico.Juico, one of the sons of former athletics chief Philip Ella Juico, put up a successful sports program that included fencing in the San Francisco del Monte area many years ago and this was where Catantan and her sisters, Ysa, Sophie and Shy, were developed by her present coach Rolando “Amat” Canlas Jr.
An afternoon visit at the Philippine Sports Commission offices in Vito Cruz also saw Catantan paying chairman Richard Bachmann and commissioner Walter Torres a courtesy call.
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