“I will gain from this experience and keep improving,” stated Polo, who turns 16 on Dec. 12, before leaving the Youth Olympic Village for Dakar Airport early Wednesday.
“I still have one year left as a junior, and I’ll do my finest to develop on the experience I acquired here,” stated Polo, a Grade 10 trainee at Pasay North City High School.
Polo won bronze at the world champions in Tianjin, China, last March, ending up behind the very same 2 professional athletes who declared the leading areas at the YOG– Ng Zhe Nin of Singapore and Chu Yu En of Chinese Taipei.
Polo was the Philippines’ only wushu entry amongst the 9 professional athletes sent out to Dakar under the Philippine Olympic Committee, headed by Abraham Tolentino, with assistance from the Philippine Sports Commission, chaired by Patrick Gregorio.
Her Chinese coach, Li Jianfang, applauded Polo’s efficiency in spite of disappointing their target.
“Thank you for your issue and assistance. We did not accomplish the outcome we hoped for, she provided her finest,” Li stated. “We will gain from this experience and utilize these lessons to keep enhancing.”
For Polo, the Dakar experience was currently an important benefit.
“I’m really delighted and pleased with my efficiency,” stated Polo, whose reduction for a miscue in the Taijishan stage of Tuesday’s last added to her missing out on the podium.
“I wish to thank everybody who supported me, whether I won or lost,” she included.
Polo and Li flew home Wednesday early morning.
With the wushu tandem back home, the Philippine project moved its focus to swimmers Jamesray Mishael Ajido, who had 2 occasions staying, and Riannah Chantelle Coleman, who had another competitors at the Dakar Olympic swimming pool.
Gymnasts Tchelzy Maayo and Hillarion Palles III likewise stepped up their training under coaches Reyland Capellan and Japan’s Kazutaka Hakamada, according to Chef de Mission Rocky Samson and POC’s Shawn Hendric Telebrico.
The young gymnasts started getting used to the Youth Olympic Village while recuperating from jet lag after a 30-hour flight. Throughout a trip of the stretching town, they likewise fulfilled basketball icon Pau Gasol of Spain, a member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission.
Sports entry Naomi Marjorie Caesar, who will contend in the ladies’s 800 meters, had actually likewise signed in at the town however had yet to train at the Dakar Athletics Stadium.
The staying members of Team Philippines were set up to show up from Manila on Thursday: Pi Durden Wangkay in the males’s 200 meters, Maritanya Krog in ladies’s biking, and Jade Justine Justiniane in windsurfing.
Gymnastics competitors start Saturday, followed by sports, biking and windsurfing on Sunday. PR
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