THE gung-ho talk we hear that Tokyo 2020 may mean our first Olympic gold notwithstanding, my thesis is that we are chasing our third. The first two, diver Victoria Manalo Draves, daughter of chef-musikero Teofilo of Orani, Bataan, got in the 1948 London Olympics. But, given the rampant racism at the time, she, based in San Francisco, won the same for the United States. She never forgot her roots though and was active in helping Pinoy immigrants in California. In San Francisco, there is a 2-acre downtown park named after her, which I visited in 2013.