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Senator Sonny Angara on Thursday, May 12 said Filipino athletes competing in the 31st Southeast Asian Games or SEA Games in Hanoi, Vietnam who will bring home medals will receive cash benefits for their achievements.
Francine Padios (Screenshot from Vietnam SEA Games livestream)
HANOI Mary Francine Padios delivered the Philippines’ first gold medal in the 31st Southeast Asian Games on Wednesday following her victory in pencak silat’s women’s seni (artistic or form) tunggal single event at the Bac Tu Lien Gymnasium. The victory of the 18-year-old native of Kalibo, Aklan, put the Philippines on… ....
(Photo courtesy of PSC) HANOI - Mary Francine Padios won the Philippines' first gold medal in the 31st Southeast Asian Games by ruling on Wednesday pencak silat's women's seni (artistic or form) tunggal single at the Bac Tu Lien Gymnasium here. Padios thus put the Philippines on the medals table Vietnam started to dominate on Wednesday, a day before this side of Asia celebrates its biennial multi-sport festival-proof that sports, and mankind for that matter, has started to champion its way over and above the pandemic that for more than two years stunted the entire world. Padios, only 18, is now a guaranteed pride of her native Kalibo in Aklan. She improved on the silver she won in the Philippines 2019 edition, a feat she said inspired her to fulfill because of her dad Jerome's misfortune just before Christmas. "My dad has become my inspiration after he figured in a terrible car accident on her way home in Aklan just before Christmas," said Padios, whose dad ha ....