Day: August 4, 2024

MANILA: The City of Manila is preparing a hero’s welcome for ParisvOlympics gold medalist Carlos Edriel Yulo. Mayor Honey Lacuna said Sunday that the city will give a huge welcome for Yulo, an Outstanding Manilan awardee. ‘The City of Manila is already preparing a hero’s welcome for Carlos Yulo because we are immensely proud of our Manileño from Leveriza, Malate,’ she said in a statement. The city government will also award the golden boy financial reward and other recognition. ‘The grandest welcome will greet him and all our Paris Olympians. When we meet him, we will present Carlos Yulo cash

MANILA: ‘Habagat’ or the southwest monsoon will continue to prevail nationwide on Sunday. In its 4 a.m. weather bulletin, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said a huge part of Luzon including Metro Manila will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies and isolated rain showers and thunderstorms, particularly in the afternoon and evening. Cloudy skies and isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms are also likely to be experienced in Western Visayas, Negros Island Region, Palawan including Kalayaan Islands and Central Visayas. Residents of these areas are warned of the possibility of floods and landslides. Eastern Visayas and most parts

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. joined the Philippines’ celebration following the gold-medal feat of Carlos Edriel Yulo in men’s gymnastics at the 2024 Paris Olympics late Saturday (PH time). Yulo’s near-flawless performance in the floor exercise final earned him 15.000 points, enough for a golden finish — the first for the country in this year’s Olympics and second overall after weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz’s breakthrough gold in the 2021 Tokyo Games. In a social media post late Saturday, Marcos congratulated Yulo for his historic win and thanked him for making the entire country proud. ‘We’ve witnessed history as Carlos Yulo

MANILA: Carlos Edriel Yulo’s gold enabled the Philippines to beat all its Southeast Asian neighbors to the medal table. It was the Philippines’ first medal in Paris and the first of any color from a gymnast. A total of 58 nations were already on the medal board as of 3 a.m. Sunday – from leader China’s 16-11-9 gold-silver bronze to a lone bronze apiece by bottom countries Austria, Egypt, Jamaica, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia. The Philippines was in the company of Argentina, Ecuador, Slovenia, Serbia and Uganda with a lone medal (gold) to show since the quadrennial Games opened on

MANILA: Aira Villegas assured the Philippines of a second medal in the Paris Olympics after stunning host country’s Wassila Lkhadiri in a tight women’s flyweight boxing quarterfinal battle early Sunday (PH time) at the Paris North Arena in Villepinte. Villegas exerted enough effort to convince the judges that she was better than Lkhadiri en route to a razor-thin split decision win. Villegas earned the nod of three judges (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) while the other two scored for the French (30-27, 29-28). Villegas said all her matches will be for teammates Carlo Paalam, Eumir Marcial and Hergie Bacdayan, who are out