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2 MORE GOLDS. Carlos Yulo dominates the vault finals and adds a surprise gold medal in the horizontal bars to finish his stint in the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam with five gold medals on Monday (May 16, 2022). With his two more golds, Yulo got a shot at becoming the best male athlete of the biennial meet. (Photo courtesy of Team Philippines) HANOI - Carlos Yulo expectedly dominated the vault finals and added a surprise gold medal in the horizontal bars as he ended his stint in the 31st Southeast Asian Games here with a shot at becoming the best male athlete while leading a nine-gold rush by the Philippines on Monday. After wowing the crowd at the Quan Ngua Sports Palace with a runaway victory in the vault where he scored 14.700 points, Yulo, 22, returned hours later and tied for first in the horizontal bars with Din Phuong Thanh of Vietnam, both scoring 13.867 points. The horizontal gold was the fifth gold medal by Yulo, the reigning vault world champion, counting his
Merwin Tan (Photo courtesy of PSC) HANOI - Merwin Tan finally ended the country's 11-year dry spell in bowling on Monday, coming from behind to rule the men's singles event at the Royal City Hanoi Bowling Lanes and fueling the Philippine drive in the 31st Southeast Asian Games here. Tan, 22, a left-hander, rolled a six-bagger in the sixth and last frame to erase a 52-pin deficit and beat Yannaphon Larpapharat of Thailand and Ryan Leonard Lalisang of Indonesia, to the delight of Pinoy officials, especially those from the Philippine Bowling Federation. Tan finished with a total score of 1292, his bid immensely helped by six straight strikes in the sixth frame where he scored 249, after a 234 in the fifth frame that bumped him up to No. 3 overall. Larpapharat and Lalisang were relegated to silver and bronze, respectively, with scores of 1286 and 1221. "Sobrang saya and shocking din po, na nanalo po ng gold ang Pilipinas (I'm so happy and shocked that I won gold for the Ph