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Thank you, Hidilyn ITH their eyes glued to a television in Zamboanga, the family of weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz yelled "push, push, push!" as she hoisted the bar to win the country's first Olympic gold medal. Next page

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10 Pinoys still in the running for Tokyo gold By Riera U. Mallari VOL. XXXV • NO. 163 • 3 SECTIONS 12 PAGES • P18 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021 • www.manilastandard.net • mst.daydesk@gmail.com

TOKYO—Elreen Ando could not replicate teammate Hidilyn Diaz’s golden performance the previous night, placing 7th in a field of 10 in the women’s 64kg weightlifting competition of the Summer Olympic Games at the Tokyo International Forum here on Tuesday. But it was all right. After all, Diaz took three Olympics before she could muster silver, four before clinching gold. Targeting the 2024 Paris Olympics but thrust to these Tokyo games three years earlier, the 22-year-old Ando showed promise as she raised 100 kgs in the snatch and 122 in the clean and jerk for a 222-kg total. But it was not enough compared to the 236-kg total of Next page

HIDILYN DIAZ‘S INCENTIVES:

Team HD: Coach Jeaneth Aro, her nutritionist; sports psychologist Dr. Karen Trinidad; weightlifting coach Kaiwen Gao; and her strength and conditioning coach Julius Naranjo who is also assistant to Coach Gao, Hidilyn’s boyfriend.

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Rich harvest of rewards for golden girl the country's first Olympic gold medal since it first joined the quadrennial event in 1921. House Majority Leader and Leyte LAWMAKERS hailed the victory of Rep. Martin Romualdez called Diaz weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz who won "a national treasure."

By Maricel V. Cruz and Macon Ramos-Araneta

9 narco-cops kicked out of service—Año By Francisco Tuyay and Macon Ramos-Araneta THE issue of the nine ranking police officials allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade, as raised by President Rodrigo Duterte in his last State of the Nation Address, has already been addressed, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Tuesday. Año said these officials are already out of the service with some facing criminal charges in court. Next page

Palace on Rody‘s SONA slip: Blame it on the carpet By Rio N. Araja, Macon Ramos-Araneta, and Rey E. Requejo THE public need not worry about President Rodrigo Duterte’s health, Malacañang said on Tuesday. This was after Duterte, in a video clip during his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City on Monday, appeared to lose his balance, prompting one of his seNext page curity aides to hold him.

"Her name will be immortalized as the first Filipino to win a gold medal in the Olympics," he said. "Hidilyn’s victory showcased the spirit of the Filipino to per-

OCTA offers new scheme to stop ‘Delta‘ By Willie Casas, Vito Barcelo and Roy Tomandao INDEPENDENT researchers tracking the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday urged the government to impose a “circuit-breaking” lockdown to stop a new surge of infections due to the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.

OCTA Research fellow Guido David said in Metro Manila, which is tallying about 1,000 cases a day, the COVID-19 reproduction rate—or the number of people that a patient with the respiratory disease is likely to infect -- has gone up to 1.33. "We should adapt what Australia and New Zealand are doing now, which is basically, 'go early and go hard'… this

means having anticipatory, preventive, circuit-breaking lockdowns,” added OCTA fellow Ranjit Rye. “We think that if we do this over the next two weeks, especially this week or next week, we will not only bring down cases, we'll save the economy, too,” Rye said in a televised public briefing. Authorities "will lose effective control Next page

severe against all odds. She displayed the grit and determination that our nation needs right now to be able to succeed in the global fight against COVID-19.” Next page

COVID-19 PH AT A GLANCE

(AS OF 4 PM JULY 27)

1,562,420 TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES

7,186 56,477 NEW

ACTIVE

27,318

72

1,478,625

5,672

DEATHS

VAX LINE. Manila residents, hoping to be vaccinated, form a long line stretching from España Avenue towards P. Noval Street outside the University of Santo Tomas grounds on July 27, 2021, on the second day the Catholic university opened its campus as a vaccination site in partnership with the city government. Local government units are under strict orders to ensure that the vaccinees are housed in wellventilated, sanitized facilities and not exposed to floods. Norman Cruz

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