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Kayla Sanchez—PHOTO BY JUNE NAVARRO
When Kayla Sanchez introduced her resolution to change nationalities and symbolize the Philippines there was pleasure over the promise of medals in main competitions.
Within the Asian Video games (Asiad), that promise will likely be on full show, able to ship.
Sanchez will compete within the ladies’s 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle in addition to within the 100-m backstroke, occasions the place the 22-year-old former Olympian for Canada might finish the nationwide swimming staff’s medal drought within the Asian Video games.
“She’s (Sanchez) strong within the freestyle occasions. We’re on the lookout for a potential medal from Kayla,’’ mentioned Batangas 1st District Rep. Eric Buhain, a former star of the nationwide swimming staff.
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No Filipino tanker has gone onto the medal platform of the Asiad since Raymond Papa’s pair of bronzes within the males’s 100-m and 200-m backstroke in the course of the 1998 version in Bangkok, Thailand.
The gold drought is even longer. The Philippines’ final Asiad swimming champ was William Wilson, who dominated the 200 free in 1982 in New Delhi, India.
Sanchez, who helped Group Canada declare a silver (4x100m freestyle relay) and a bronze (4x100m medley relay) within the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, owns instances in her occasions that would finish that almost four-decade wait.
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