Two years ago, Hidilyn Diaz earned the ire of President Rodrigo Duterte when she spoke about a lack of support for athletes by the Philippines government.
“The entire Filipino nation is proud of you,” Duterte’s spokesman said in a congratulatory message released soon after her victory on Monday night. The Air Force sergeant will receive 33 million pesos and a house from the government as an additional reward as she joins boxing icon Manny Pacquiao on the top shelf of the Philippines’ all-time sports stars.
Only hours before Diaz broke the second of two Olympic records in Japan, for the clean-and-jerk as well as the snatch, Duterte was taking centre stage delivering his final State of the Nation address.The 76-year-old’s single six-year term ends next year but he vowed to continue an internationally condemned anti-drugs crackdown that has officially killed more than 6000 but which rights groups estimate has left many more than that dead.
Also attacking police officers accused of supplying weapons to communist insurgents, Duterte ordered that “if you see them walking around, kindly shoot them dead”.
ChrisBarrett_ Does this one have a penis or no?
ChrisBarrett_ How could they cast her as enemy when the gov’t secure her funding so she can concentrate on her training? And the palace had clarified she was not considered as an enemy?
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