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VINH PHUC, Vietnam For handball coach Joanna Franquelli, his team’s silver medal glitters like gold in these 31st Southeast Asian Games that formally start on Thursday. The Philippines is assured of the silver medal to improve on the bronze medal finish in 2019 when the country hosted the biennial meet in…
(Photo courtesy of PSC) HANOI - Mary Francine Padios won the Philippines' first gold medal in the 31st Southeast Asian Games by ruling on Wednesday pencak silat's women's seni (artistic or form) tunggal single at the Bac Tu Lien Gymnasium here. Padios thus put the Philippines on the medals table Vietnam started to dominate on Wednesday, a day before this side of Asia celebrates its biennial multi-sport festival-proof that sports, and mankind for that matter, has started to champion its way over and above the pandemic that for more than two years stunted the entire world. Padios, only 18, is now a guaranteed pride of her native Kalibo in Aklan. She improved on the silver she won in the Philippines 2019 edition, a feat she said inspired her to fulfill because of her dad Jerome's misfortune just before Christmas. "My dad has become my inspiration after he figured in a terrible car accident on her way home in Aklan just before Christmas," said Padios, whose dad ha