Philippine Showbiz Today
March 22 - April 7, 2019
Weightlifting
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PH Special Olympian inspires on
Humans of New York Instagram post
stress how a leader should be and
that winning isn’t really everything
but family and friendship are.
“I have twenty superheroes
that I keep in a folder on my phone
and I take it out to look at them,
and I pretend that I am the leader
of an entire superhero team. The
whole team is counting on me to
get as strong as possible because I
am the muscle of the team. Being
the biggest is like a way to take
charge. It doesn’t even matter if
I have super powers because I
Filipino powerlifter Eduardo Humans of New York (@ can use my own true strength,
Munarriz has yet to begin his humansofny) Instagram account, and the barbell is like a type of
campaign in the 2019 Special which currently has 8.8 million weapon. It’s important as a leader
to always listen to your team.
Olympics World Games in Abu followers.
Our whole team decided
Dhabi, UAE.
In the post, Munarriz shared a
But he’s already won the short story about how he pictures together that friendship is more
hearts of thousands after being himself as a leader of a team of important than winning. Nobody
featured on the world renowned superheroes. He then, went on to will be mad at me if I lose. They
UAAP: Maddie Madayag
‘didn’t see’ Eya Laure’s
staredown
University of Santo Tomas
rookie Eya Laure added another
play to her already expansive
highlight reel when she blocked
Ateneo veteran Maddie Madayag
in the third set of their UAAP
Season 81 game on Wednesday.
Laure’s block was notable as
she rejected Madayag’s running
hit -- one of the most formidable
sights in the UAAP this year.
Afterward, she stared down the
Ateneo veteran, then twirled
slowly before celebrating with her
teammate
Madayag ultimately had the
last laugh: she scored 23 points,
including a record-setting 11
blocks, and the Lady Eagles came
from behind to down the Golden
Tigresses, 19-25, 22-25, 27-25,
25-22, 15-11.
Afterward, Madayag insisted
that she didn’t even notice what
Laure did.
“Actually I didn’t see it, I didn’t
see it,” she said.
But Madayag says Laure
could not be blamed for her
actions, saying: “It’s just part of
the game.”
“You can’t really do anything,
kasi you’re hyped eh,” she pointed
out. “Sino namang hindi maha-
hype pag naka-block ka, ‘di ba?”
While she and the Lady
Eagles came away with the
victory -- their seventh straight of
the tournament -- Madayag was
admittedly impressed with Laure.
“Promising ‘yung bata eh,
sobra,” she said of the UST
rookie.
“As in nakikita mo yung talent
niya, na may maaasahan yung
UST. Napakagaling na bata,”
Madayag added.
Laure finished the game with
21 points. ●
- C.B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News
don’t care if I bring home a medal.
My family and my friends and
Coach John and everyone in the
Philippines will be proud of me
even just for lifting weights,” the
post read.
Munarriz is one of three
Filipino powerlifters participating
in the Special Olympics. The other
two are Joanna Aquino Yabes and
Marlon Tindoc, who had already
won the bronze medal in the squat
attempt.
The 20-year-old Munarriz
takes his turn on the stage
Wednesday.
But regardless of what the
results may be, Munarriz has
already made his case that not all
superheroes wear capes. ●
- M. Giongco, Inq
Dula completes sweep
of 5 swim events
ILAGAN CITY, Isabela. —
Mark Bryan Dula of Paranaque
City upstaged his more illustrious
teammate
Micaela
Jasmine
Mojdeh by winning four gold
medals Wednesday to become
the first quintuple winner in the
Luzon leg of the 2019 Philippine
National Youth Games-Batang
Pinoy at the Isabela Sports
Complex pool here.
Making his Batang Pinoy
debut, Dula, 12, made sure it will
be remembered as he topped the
200m and 100m backstroke and
100m and 50m butterfly for boys
12-under to complete a sweep of
his five events.
Dula, who bagged the 50m
gold medal the day before,
clocked two minutes and 44.46
seconds in the 200m back,
1:08.82 in the 100m fly, 1:14.71
in 100m back and 30.78 in 50m
fly all in the morning events at the
pool to overtake the more popular
Mojdeh, the national juniors
record holder who has four gold
medals at press time.
Mojdeh, 12, who topped
the 200m and 400m individual
medley in Day 1, added two more
by winning the girls’ 13-15 100m
fly in 1:06.30 and 50m fly in 30.44.
She will have a chance to join
Dula in the elite five-gold club if
she tops the 200m fly Thursday.
In athletics, Dasmarinas,
Cavite’s
Ron
Gabriel
Villa
heaved the discus to 35.24m
to cop the boys’ gold ahead of
teammate Con Prince David
(33.30m) and Baguio’s Kurt
Errol
Calalong
(30.33m).
Also striking gold medals at the
track were Bulacan’s Marvelyn
Canon
(girls’
long
jump),
Camarines Sur’s Leslie de Lima
(girls’ 1500m) and Baguio’s
Hussein Lorana (boys’ 1500m)
In archery, Baguio’s Aton
Yuan Jucutan became the first
double gold medalist in the sport
by topping the boys’ cub 20m
and 30m.
Also reigning supreme were
Baguio City’s Danielle Espiritu
(girls’ cadet 30m) Dagupan’s
Janina Erica Dolosa (girls’ cub
20m), Pasig’s Guillana Venice
Garcia (girls’ bowman 30m),
Makati’s
Cassandra
Louise
Enecio (girls’ yeoman 20m) and
Sophia Kyran Manuel (girls’ cub
30m), Marikina’s Sean Jonathan
Tanco (boys’ cadet 40m) and
Pangasinan’s Zhyrine Shayne
Bastasa (girls’ cadet 40m). ●
- Malaya Sports