SEA Games champion at last
RP team bags 113 golds and counting
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http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=58825
THERE'S NO denying the Philippines the overall title this time.
Pounding the opposition on various fronts, Team Philippines yesterday clinched its first ever overall championship of the Southeast Asian Games with a Day 8 deluge of 23 golds, pulling away from the opposition and rendering today's closing events with no bearing.
Posting its best ever haul of 113 golds, 76 silvers and 85 bronzes, the Philippines moved beyond the reach of Thailand which had a 75-77-107 tally and Vietnam with a 64-62-81 output.
The Filipinos thus buried the harrowing memory of the 1991 Manila SEAG, where the general championship race went down to the last event, the marathon, with the Indonesians prevailing by a solitary gold, 92-91, after topping the women's event.
Finally, after 46 years of fruitless campaigns, the Filipinos can claim to be the region's best in the biennial meet involving 11 nations, including war-ravaged Timor L'este.
ot: don't tell me it's because Garci is in manila nah!