Jones Inso of wushu delivered a bronze medal for Team Philippines on a sunny Monday afternoon when others tried very hard, but failed, to land on the coveted podium in the 19th Asian Games here.
Inso, from the rich, beautiful mountains of La Trinidad, Benguet, showed fine form to win the bronze in the men’s taijiquan-taijijian all-around event. He provided his country its second medal following another bronze from Patrick King Perez in poomsae last Sunday.
Inso’s feat, somehow, eased the pain of multiple losses suffered by Team Philippines in rowing, judo, taekwondo, swimming and boxing, which is relying heavily on Tokyo Olympics silver and bronze medalist Nesthy Petecio and Eumir Marcial. A nine-year-old skateboarder, the youngest member of Team Philippines and perhaps among the 12,471 athletes in this Asian Games, made a lot of heads turn despite a seventh-place finish in the girl’s park event.
JR Francisco missed the podium in the men’s park by a hairline, finishing fourth behind a Chinese and two Japanese. It was just a fraction on the judges’ cards that separated the Filipino from the bronze medalist.“We were robbed of the bronze,” said the POC president. “Yung nag-bronze na Japanese, hindi niya dapat na-dislodge si Francisco. Na box-out tayo.”
Eala, a product of the Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy in Spain, will also see action in mixed doubles with Ruben Gonzales. With Justine Brownlee and Ange Kouame around, the Filipinos are tipped to win big against Bahrain then head to Wednesday’s game against close neighbor Thailand and Saturday’s clash with Jordan.Fil-Canadian Kayla Sanchez and Tiea Salvino finished sixth and eighth in the women’s 50-meter backstroke final won by China’s Xueer Wang . Xiandi Chua finished eighth in the women’s 200-m IM final at 2:16.18. China’s Yu Titing won the gold with plenty to spare .
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