“I’m excited to go home but sad that I’ll be leaving you behind”. Upon arrival at Terminal 3, they will immediately cross over to the Resorts World where she will address a press conference at around 6 p.m.
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Diaz, who placed second in that contest, boarded an Emirates flight Tuesday for Manila.
Diaz lifted a total of 200 kilogrammes for the snatch and clean and jerk to finish second to Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Shu-ching, with South Korea’sYoon Jin-hee snaring the bronze medal. Sports patron Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of official Philippine Olympic coveror TV5, reportedly will lend his private jet to bring Diaz and company to Zamboanga.
The 25-year-old weightlifter from Zamboanga earned her ticket to the 2016 Rio Olympics after winning several events in the Asian Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from April 24 to 30 this year.
Diaz wants to spend time with her family and enjoy the fiesta in their place in Mambang in Zamboanga on Sunday.
She stands to get a P5-million government incentive, which is double the P2.5 million cash incentive provided for under the repealed RA 9064, enacted back in 2001.
SILVER medalist Hidilyn Diaz will be given a heroine’s welcome by President Rodrigo Duterte in Davao City.
“The city government is now ready to give her (Diaz) the proper recognition/ and the proper welcome”.
Judoka Kodo Nakano could only gain the Olympic experience after he lost to Italy’s Marconcini Mateo in the men’s 81-kg category by ippon on Tuesday morning.
Nakano, a first-time Olympian, couldn’t handle his Italian opponent, a silver medalist in the Almaty Grand Prix in Kazahkstan only last May.
She was the first of the 13 Filipino athletes, many of whom have been here since July 23, to fly back home.
“I felt I was too young then, I felt like a baby in the water” said Alkhakdi, who trained in Hawaii under coach Jennifer Buffin. Diaz is the first member of the delegation to win a medal for the Philippines.
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Alora is the last to see action when she competes in the first round of the +67 kg class against former Olympic champ Marie Espinoza of Mexico on August 20 at Carioca Pavilion.
