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Carlos Yulo on Olympic gold medal: ‘Binigay sa akin ito ni Lord’

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E. Kristhoff Cagape

<p>&quot;Ito &#x27;yung naging resulta po talaga ng lahat lahat po.&quot;</p><p>These were the words of Carlos Yulo as he reflected on his gold medal win at the Paris Olympics on Saturday, August 3 (Paris time).</p><p>The Filipino gymnast expressed his gratitude to God for helping win at the Olympics.</p><p>&quot;Maraming, maraming salamat po talaga. Hindi ko alam kung papaano ito ite-take.  Pero alam ko sa sarili ko na binigay sa akin ito ni Lord and deserve ko &#x27;to.&quot; he stated in an interview with One Sports.</p><p>Carlos shared that he felt a rush of overwhelming emotions after it was announced that he was the Olympic champion for the gymnastics floor exercise finals on Saturday as he remembered the challenges that he encountered before his win.</p><div><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOneSportsPHL%2Fvideos%2F1200964124259556%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=261&amp;t=0" width="261" height="476" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" scrolling="no" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><p>&quot;&#x27;Yung emotions ko po eh bumubuhos po talaga kaya nung nalaman  kung ako na &#x27;yung gold, naiyak po talaga ako. Nakita ko po &#x27;yung pagsubok po bago ako nakapunta dito. Sobrang hindi ko akalain na kaya ko po &#x27;yung ganitong resulta at performance kaya nagpapasalamat po talaga ako sa taas po, sobra sobra po,&quot; he said.</p><p>Carlos admitted that the two days l<span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">eading to the men&#x27;s artistic gymnastics finals </span>were challenging.</p><p>&quot;Grabe dalawang araw akong hindi pinatulog pero sobrang worth it nun. Thank you Lord.&quot;</p><p>The Pinoy gymnast scored a total of 15.000 points in the floor exercise finals.</p><p>This is the first gold medal of the Philippines at the Paris Olympics and the first medal of the country for men&#x27;s artistic gymnastics.</p><p>Artem Dolgopyat of Israel clinched the silver medal with a score of 14.966, while Jake Jarman of Great Britain scored 14.933 for the bronze medal in the finals.</p><div><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-0" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-NhmXcCnZ5/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=540&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fent-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A118068.40000003576%2C%22ls%22%3A117674.10000002384%2C%22le%22%3A118045%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="746" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-0" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe></div><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>Carlos is the second Filipino athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics after Hidilyn Diaz bagged the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 for weightlifting.</p><p>Carlos will still be competing for another gymnastics event on August 4 (Paris time) in the vault finals.</p><p>In a recent interview with ABS-CBN News at the quarter finals, Carlos vowed that he will further push his performance in the finals.</p><p>&quot;Feeling ko mas may igaganda pa &#x27;yung vault so magfo-focus po ako sa training and ita-try ko po na i-replicate po siya sa competition,&quot; he said.</p>

<p>Carlos Yulo clinches the gold medal after he scored a total of 15.000 points in the floor exercise finals. The 24-year-old gymnast wins the first gold medal of the Philippines at the Paris Olympics. </p>

Carlos Yulo clinches the gold medal after he scored a total of 15.000 points in the floor exercise finals. The 24-year-old gymnast wins the first gold medal of the Philippines at the Paris Olympics.

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Carlos Yulo on Olympic gold medal: ‘Binigay sa akin ito ni Lord’

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Published Aug 04, 2024 08:49 AM PHT

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