Rio Olympian Lariba passes away at 24

By The Manila Times

Sep 03, 2018 7:04 am

OLYMPIAN Ian 'Yan-yan' Lariba died on Sunday night, according to a statement from Philippine Table Tennis Federation President Ting Ledesma. She was 24.

Lariba, 24, was stricken with leukemia, which she battled for more than a year after her Olympic stint in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.

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