The countryโs best athletes posed for a photo (or three) together at the Paris Olympics, and it canโt get any more iconic than this!
Hidilyn Diaz and Carlos Yulo reunited at the city of love to celebrate Yuloโs historic back-to-back Olympic Gold wins as seen in Diazโs Instagram post yesterday, August 9. They took photographs with the Eiffel Tower in the background as Yulo showed off his hard-earned medals.
โSalamat Caloy sa napakaganda at napakasayang pag-uusap!โ Diaz wrote on her post. โBasta proud ako sa iyo, at lagi kitang ipagdarasal.โ
[โThank you Caloy for our wonderful and happy catch-up! I am proud of you and I will always pray for you.โ]
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Yulo made the country proud by besting out his opponents at the menโs floor exercise and vault competitions, making him the first gymnast to win an Olympic medal for the Philippines.
This comes after Diaz also made history by becoming the Philippinesโ first-ever recorded Olympic Gold Medalist by acing the womenโs 55kg weightlifting competition at the Tokyo 2020 Games, ending the countryโs 20-year medal drought.
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Weโre so proud of them!
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