FILE – Carlos Yulo baggage the gold in males’s ground train through the thirty first SEA Video games. SEA GAMES POOL
MANILA, Philippines-Carlos Yulo emerged with essentially the most medals for Workforce Philippines for 2 Southeast Asian Video games in a row.
Organizers of the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in all probability took discover and made the mandatory modification that can restrain the Filipino gymnastics star from relishing the same feat.
Gymnastics Affiliation of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion-Norton revealed on Monday that Yulo could be confined to seeing motion within the males’s particular person all-around, parallel bars, horizontal bar and males’s workforce occasion, a complete of 4 gold medals if he may win all of them.
The 23-year-old, Japan-based fireball collected 5 gold medals and two silvers in males’s creative gymnastics final 12 months in Hanoi, Vietnam and had two golds and 5 silvers again in 2019 Manila.
“It won’t be as many as seven, however he (Yulo) will once more be as much as the duty to win a number of golds,” mentioned Carrion through the send-off ceremony on the PICC for the Philippine workforce certain for Cambodia.
The nation will ship 905 athletes and 257 officers in all 38 sports activities to Phnom Penh from Might 5-17 in a bid to surpass the Philippine output of 52 golds, 70 silvers and 104 bronzes in Hanoi.
President Marcos attended the sendoff together with high officers of the Philippine Sports activities Fee led by its chairman Richard Bachmann, the Philippine Olympic Committee headed by Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino and Senate committee for sports activities chairman Sen. Bong Go.
“Sports activities is likely one of the only a few actions that has no draw back. The one draw back to sports activities is usually you get injured, however all the pieces else is nice for you,” mentioned Marcos.
“All of our champions have introduced glory to the Philippines by way of their sacrifice and success and it made each single Filipino proud. For that, I thanks for all of the glory and honor that you’ve given the nation,” Marcos instructed the athletes.
Gymnastics Affiliation of the Philippines president Cynthia Carrion-Norton
In line with Carrion, host Cambodia has put restrictions that restrict gymnasts to carry out solely in two apparatuses.
Yulo claimed the gold medal within the horizontal bar and settled for silver within the parallel bars within the earlier version of the Video games.
However the limitations in Cambodia received’t deter the gymnastics workforce from amassing extra medals.
“We’re coaching laborious, so we will win medals even with out the opposite occasions of Carlos,” mentioned Carrion.
Yulo was a part of the silver-medal males’s workforce in Hanoi final 12 months, a efficiency they intend to reinforce this time round.
“They’re aiming greater. They need to win the gold,” mentioned Carrion.
Yulo is getting ready for the ultimate leg of the FIG Equipment World Cup Sequence in Cairo, Egypt this weekend and can return dwelling previous to his Cambodian sojourn.
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