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Senate resolution seeks to award 2-time Olympic gold medalist Yulo

Published Aug 6, 2024 05:40 am

Former Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri today, August 6 has filed a resolution that seeks to award gymnast Carlos Edriel Yulo who bagged two gold medals with the Senate Medal of Excellence for his outstanding performance in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Senator Juan Miguel “Migz” F. Zubiri praises gymnast Carlos Yulo for bagging two gold medals in the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Vault Apparatus Finals and the Men’s Gymnastics Floor Exercises Finals at the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Senate PRIB photo)

Zubiri filed Senate Resolution No. 1108, which he said would have no difficulty getting the support of senators as Yulo "truly deserves the Senate and the Filipino people's recognition for accomplishing such a magnificent feat" in winning two gold medals in the Olympics.

“I never thought in my wildest dreams that we will be able to see a double medal, gold win in the Paris Olympics in my lifetime…I never thought I’d see the day that we were in the top 20 in the medal board tally of the Olympics with two golds, care of one person, one super athlete, which is Carlos Yulo,” Zubiri said during Monday's plenary session, August 5.

The Senate Medal of Excellence is “an expression of public gratitude on behalf of the nation” that is conferred upon “deserving Filipinos for setting the highest standards of excellence, nationalism, and virtue that their fellow countrymen can aspire for,” as stated on Senate Resolution No. 110 from the 18th Congress.

Zubiri said that with Yulo’s historic Olympic victories, he has become “one of the greatest Filipino athletes of all time.”

Yulo scored the gold medals at the men’s floor exercise and the men’s vault, making him the first double-gold Olympic medalist in the history of Philippine athletics.

The first recipients of the Senate Medal of Excellence were Hidilyn Diaz, Carlo Paalam, Nesthy Petecio and Eumir Marcial - medalists at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics.

“With the Senate Medal of Excellence, we are recognizing Caloy not just for his extraordinary skill and talent, but also for his patriotism. This is our way of thanking him for proudly carrying our flag and showing the world the heart and spirit of the Filipino people,” he said.

Zubiri, who was also a competitive athlete in his youth,  co-authored and co-sponsored several measures seeking the development of the country’s athletes and sports programs.

Some of them are Republic Act No. 9850, which declared Arnis as the national martial art and sport; Republic Act No. 11470 or the National Academy of Sports Act, which offers secondary education with a specialized sports curriculum, on full scholarship basis, to young Filipino athletes; and Senate Bill No. 2408, or the Philippine National Games Act, establishing a national grassroots sports program. 

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