“We’re the best performer in Southeast Asia and No. 7 in Asia,” Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino said on Sunday just hours before the closing ceremony for the Paris Olympics.
“We wanted more but with two gold and two bronze medals, should we ask for more from Paris?”
PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino in a serious discussion with Carlos Yulo, gymnastics head Cynthia Carrion, secretary-general Atty. Wharton Chan and POC secretariat member Bob Moran of tennis. Carlos Yulo’s gold medals on floor exercise and vault of gymnastics and boxers Nesthy Petecio and Aira Villegas’s bronze medals put the Philippines in a share of 35th place with Hong-Kong China in the medals race.
The Philippines was No. 1 among countries competing in the SEA Games with its closest pursuer Indonesia also winning two gold medals but only had a bronze in badminton.“We’ve got quality in Paris—in gymnastics, a blue-chip sport,” Tolentino said. “And looking at the SEA Games countries, we outperformed our closest neighbors.”
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