Tokyo Olympics 2020

[Devastator]

one win away from at least a bronze finish

And a third medal all in all, with Petecio assured of a medal.

[greenlyt]

Ignore...ignore...ignore...

Starve the troll...

best way....
soon they'll die from starvation

[kagalingan]

Ignore...ignore...ignore...

Starve the troll...

dreamy,

ilan beses mo na sinabi yan. Pero ikaw mismo hindi makatiis hanapin ako

hindi mo ba matanggap COACH NI HIDYLYN EH CHINAMAN

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Gao Kaiwen, the Chinese coach behind Hidilyn’s historic gold

Published July 28, 2021, 8:28 PM

by Tito Talao




Hidilyn Diaz trains with “HD Team” Chinese coach Kaiwen Gao in Malaysia in preparation for this year’s Tokyo Olympics. (Screengrab from Diaz documentary “Let’s Go HD!” by Kick-Start Coffee Brewed Awakening

TOKYO — It will be a soul-searching week for Tokyo Olympiad gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz when she flies home with her team, including Chinese coach Gao Kaiwen, Wednesday and proceeds straight to Sofitel from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to comply with the government’s seven-day quarantine travel protocol for returning residents.

“In those seven days, we told Hidilyn to think about what she really plans to do next,” said sports psychologist Dr. Karen Trinidad, who, along with nutritionist Jeanette Aro, were instrumental members of Team DH.

At 30, said weightlifting president Monico Puentevella, Diaz has the option to rest on her laurels and start a family.

“After all, she has paid her dues and done the nation a great service,” said Puentevella, who took the same Philippine Airlines flight as Diaz that left Japan around noon.

“I told her ‘that she has nothing else to prove,’” said Puentevella.

Unless, that is, Diaz wants to go on competing, as she has indicated during a media zoom interview arranged by Philippine Olympic Committee president Bambol Tolentino Tuesday morning, the day after her historic gold medal victory.

“In that case,” said Puentevella said, “I will have to count Hidilyn in with Vanessa Sarno, Kristel Macrohon and, of course, Elreen Ando as among our bets for the Paris Olympics in 2024.”

Which means, Gao, who took over the reins of training Diaz before the 2018 Asian Games, where she won a gold medal, may have to wait a little longer before being able to return home to China.

Puentevella explains: “We cautioned coach Gao Kaiwen that he could no longer return to his native China for the simple reason that his ward Hidilyn beat a Chinese Olympic record holder.

“But that’s of course a joke, and everyone had a good laugh, including Coach Gao.”

The famed mentor of Chen Xiexia, 48kg Olympic gold medalist in Beijing, and

Zhou Lulu, who also took the gold in 75kg in London, is credited by Diaz for her golden success here.

“Coach Gao made a difference in my lifts,” Diaz was quoted as saying. “He’s a positive person and I like to have him around me.”

Gao’s experience and track record proved of immense value to Diaz, who has improved tremendously after failing to make the podium in Beijing and London.

Introducing into her training regimen novel routines and heavier weights, Gao had steered Diaz to new territory with amazing results.

Diaz lifted 92kg in the snatch and 115kg in the clean and jerk three years ago to win the Asian Games, 7kg heavier than her Olympic silver medal total, according to reports.

And last Monday at the Tokyo International Forum, against Chinese world record holder Quiyun Liao, a lifter Diaz has never beaten before, said Puentevella, the four-time Olympic veteran shattered those marks at a weight division 2kg heavier, with 97kg in snatch and an ascending series of 119kg, 124kg and the massive 127kg in the clean and jerk for the long-coveted gold medal.

Watching from side of the stage, admiring his handiwork as celebration erupted, was Hidilyn Diaz’s Chinese coach Gao Kaiwen, who may have to do some soul-searching of his own in the next seven days while his prized ward contemplates what to do next after her heroic feat.

Hindi ba kayo masaya...... coach by a chinaman. A coach na ilan pupils nagkaginto.

pag ako nagbasa ng balita sinusuyod ko parang hengde fezshields recommended by octashits made mandatory by IATF and followed blindly ng tsikoteers hahahahh

Gao Kaiwen, the Chinese coach behind Hidilyn’s historic gold – Manila Bulletin

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HuhLuuuuh.....nagiingat na si coach chinaman .

Hi dreamy..... donot feed the troll. A trolll na tumpak na naman.

Motorists drive by electronic billboards along EDSA in Mandaluyong and Makati cities on a rainy Tuesday morning, July 27, 2021 showing congratulatory messages for Olympian Hidilyn Diaz on her historic gold medal win in the women's 55 kilogram weightlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The STAR/Miguel de Guzman

Chinese weightlifting team upset with Hidilyn Diaz's Chinese coach for not tipping them off
(Philstar.com) - July 29, 2021 - 1:23pm


MANILA, Philippines — China's team in the weightlifting competition in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was upset with the Chinese coach of weightlifting champ Hidilyn Diaz for not tipping them off about the eventual gold medalist, she said Thursday.

Speaking in an interview aired over ANC, the Zamboanga-born Olympic medalist said that the Chinese side did not expect her to lift as heavily as she did during the competition.

Diaz dominated the women’s 55kg weightlifting competition in Tokyo to beat China's Liao Qiuyun and become the first Filipino athlete to bring an Olympic gold medal home.

"The China team was a little angry with [my coach] because he didn't share where my strength was," she said in Filipino.

"Of course Coach didn't share that with China...I thought ‘why would he share?’ He’s here to work for me and make me stronger. There are mixed feelings, with the political, international issue [with] our sea. While there’s no war, I was able to represent the Philippines and beat China."

She was referring to the still-brewing tensions over Philippine-owned territories in the West Philippine Sea, where Chinese vessels remain moored to this day despite the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague ruling in the Philippines' favor on the issue.

Asked what ran through her mind as she hoisted her medal with the Philippine national anthem playing, Diaz said: "I thought, 'it's possible after all.' At one point I didn't think it was. But finally, I did it. I said, we Filipinos can do it after all."

But weightlifting coach Gao Kaiwen, though proud of his prized ward, could not be as proud after watching China fall to the Philippines.

In an interview aired over state-run Chinese outlet Xinhua News was careful to praise Diaz but expressed mixed feelings over the loss of his compatriot.

"It is not an easy job for a girl coming from a poor family of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, to keep up intense training at the age of 30," said Gao, who formerly coached the Chinese national women’s army team.

"It was a great pity to watch the athlete from my country take a silver," he added.

Diaz on Thursday also signaled her intent to compete in the Asian Games and the Southeast Asian Games.

Chinese weightlifting team upset with Hidilyn Diaz's Chinese coach for not tipping them off | Philstar.com

[dr. d]

Chinese weightlifting team upset with Hidilyn Diaz's Chinese coach for not tipping them off | Philstar.com[/url]

and what will he say?
"guys, this girl is good." ?
heh heh.

btw,
someone told me that hidy comes from a family of weightlifters.

[dr. d]

ilan beses mo na sinabi yan. Pero ikaw mismo hindi makatiis hanapin ako

... hanapin ka?
we'd have to be blind if we don't stumble onto your post.

[papi smith]

... hanapin ka?
we'd have to be blind if we don't stumble onto your post.

There's an ignore button here Doc, in case you really don't like to read him hehe

[_Cathy_]

There's an ignore button here Doc, in case you really don't like to read him hehe

si doc at missX na lang pumapansin sa kanya

[170kphlang]

There's an ignore button here Doc, in case you really don't like to read him hehe

Aba meron nga a. At least one less KSP down the drain.

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[kisshmet]

^Pwede ng magpakasal si hidilyn

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[Papajamba]

The good outcome is nagstep up ang favorite gymnast ng daughter ko, Suni Lee and won the gold sa individual all around![emoji1628]


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[Devastator]

Carlo Paalam advances to the next round and later Nesthy is going to see action. Good luck Nesthy.

[dr. d]

Carlo Paalam advances to the next round and later Nesthy is going to see action. Good luck Nesthy.

i hope he does not live up to his name...
dapat ay mabilis, at hindi mayumi.
heh heh.

[Papajamba]

Pole vaulter EJ Obiena is into the finals on August 3![emoji122]


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[Deestone]

Pole vaulter EJ Obiena is into the finals on August 3![emoji122]


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Hopefully another Gold medal for us. EJ's chances are high.

[Devastator]

Hopefully Nesthy and EJ can snag the Gold, with Carlo Paalam not that far behind. At any rate, this is going to be our best showing in the Olympics in years.

[dr. d]

At any rate, this is going to be our best showing in the Olympics in years.

how many medals have we had, from the git-go?
7 bronzes
3 silvers
and this year's sole gold,
so far.

[Devastator]

how many medals have we had, from the git-go?
7 bronzes
3 silvers
and this year's sole gold,
so far.

Hopefully Nesthy, EJ and Carlo could bring in more golds as well as the others who are still in contention.

[xwangbu]

Tony Hawk and Margielyn Didal

[cast_no_shadow]

Bukas ba yung boxing for gold medal? Is this broadcasted live sa TV5?


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