The Philippines’ Carlos Edriel Yulo competes within the parallel bars occasion of the creative gymnastics males’s qualification through the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on the Bercy Enviornment in Paris, on July 27, 2024. (Picture by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)
Caloy Yulo has a possibility to hitch a handful of Filipino athletes who’ve pulled off uncommon feats of profitable a number of medals of their Olympic careers.
However not like Teofilo Yldefonso and Hidilyn Diaz, the Malate-born gymnast can produce a primary for the Philippines in its 100-year historical past of participation by claiming a number of medals in a single Olympics.
Yulo certified for the finals of the boys’s all-around, vault and flooring train of the Paris Video games, a outstanding displaying for the multi-time world champion who struggled in his debut three years in the past within the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tokyo version.
Taking at the least one medal is taken into account successful in any Olympics, and probably a life-changing accomplishment for a PH athlete who would step onto the rostrum—with fame and fortune more likely to observe.
That was the case within the Tokyo meet when Diaz ended the nation’s lengthy look forward to a gold, together with silver medals by boxers Nesthy Petecio and Carlo Paalam and a bronze from fellow slugger Eumir Marcial.
Earlier than her golden second in Japan, Diaz claimed a silver in Rio in 2016 which snapped a 20-year medal drought for the Philippines.
Yldefonso was the primary to bag multiple medal within the final sporting occasion when the swimmer often called the “Ilocano Shark” produced two bronzes.
It each got here within the 200-meter breaststroke in 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Video games. He made a 3rd Olympic look in 1936 in Berlin however missed out on a podium end in the identical occasion.
Any medal Yulo could get in these three occasions would give sporting followers again dwelling a purpose to smile, however after all, profitable gold is trigger for an enormous celebration. INQ
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