Davaoeno behind Hong Kong’s historical Olympic bronze medal win – Part 1

 

 

I had an interesting chat with an old friend, and with a guy who encouraged me to marry my wife Angie.

 

Marc Velasco, the former head of the Philippine Center for Sports Medicine’s strength and conditioning unit just shook me out of my tiredness last Friday evening.

 

As I was cooling down at the media center of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex after a few laps around the oval, Marc gave me a buzz on Facebook and asked me how the Philippine national team was doing?

 

I told him about the national 4×400 meter relay team in athletics which stands to receive a  gold medal after the Malaysians were stripped of their gold for banned substance use in the 2011 SEA Games.

 

Marc, who now works as a conditioning coach at the Hong Kong Institute of Sports,  told me that his question has nothing to do with them at all.

 

That’s when I learned about Hong Kong’s historic bronze medal finish when he asked me to look at the medal standings of the 2012 London Olympics online.

 

Then I began researching, and I learned that it was Sarah Lee Wai Sze in women’s track cycling.

 

 Then, that’s when I learned that he had something to do with Lee’s feat.

 

I began to get amazed at how a Filipino, a kababayan, made it possible for a Hong Kong athlete to win a bronze medal in the Olympics (to be continued).