Pinay athletes highlight women empowerment in 2018 Asiad

Women empowerment in Philippine sports had never been strongly felt than in the 2018 Asian Games held in the cities of Jakarta and Palembang in Indonesia where Filipina athletes swept all the four gold medals the 114-athlete strong national contingent brought home.

Iron Lady Hidilyn Diaz in weightlifting, parbuster Yuka Saso and her teammates and skateboard ace Margielyn Didal wrote history in the Philippines’ 67 years of participation in the quadrennial conclave among the best and finest athletes in the region by romping off with all of the country’s gold medal harvest.