Let's Stop POLITICIZING Hidilyn Diaz's Gold Medal, OKAY?

Congratulations to Hidilyn Diaz for the gold medal. I'm amazed at how her win got POLITICIZED by the DILAWANS and also the DDS which I'm now neither. I mean, being a Dilawan or a DDS ain't forever - it just takes a mistake from which side, and people keep becoming butterflies. Now, it would be time to get some facts straight in. If I'm not wrong, the late Noynoy Aquino did sign certain laws into action that allowed (and obliged) the Duterte Administration to give the benefits to Hidilyn Diaz. I guess it'd be entirely wrong to blame Noynoy on the lack of sponsorship that Michael Christian Martinez didn't have during the Aquino Administration - I'd blame lousy lawmakers and the LOUSY SYSTEM. The win was politicized to make it another blot against President Rodrigo R. Duterte. Again, I'm not against criticism against the president if you happen to be like the late Carlos Celdran. The problem is when one's a Duterte critic and offers NO solutions with the likes of Pignoy Ako Blog, Change Scamming, Bantay Nakaw PH, and Silent No More PH. A Dilawan's criticism of Duterte is WELCOME as long as they present some solutions - something they really need if they expect to be relevant again!

Vera Files had ended up vindicating Salvador Panelo. Ellen Tordesillas is a known Duterte critic. I'm not going to totally shoot down an organization for being anti-Duterte. Some reporters in Rappler were actually quite fair enough like Pia Ranada's fair assessment of President Rodrigo R. Duterte in Japan. I think the problem isn't Rappler but Maria Ressa herself. Ressa was already blasted in BBC HARDtalk yet she has refused to learn her lesson. It turns out that the whole alleged Panelo links Diaz to the drug matrix isn't true - that's according to Vera Files. I don't mind if Tordesillas continues fact-checking and remains a Duterte critic - just be fair! I wonder what the Dilawans have to say now after Vera Files ended up refuting the alleged statement?!

To say that it's a "victory against the Chinese" is another statement. Try to do a Google search and you'll realize that another known person to be Diaz's coach is named Gao Kaiwen. Just because the Philippines has scores to settle with the People's Republic of China doesn't mean Filipinos and Chinese should be enemies. Gao himself may be Chinese but he trained a FILIPINO athlete. I dunno if one could call Gao a Filipino sympathizer or he saw the potential in Diaz and decided to train her. It's a victory for the Filipino people, it was a victory against China. However, this is a SPORTS COMPETITION and not a battle. Then again, isn't it that many Filipinos have the tendency to view competition like it was a battlefield? Not to mention there's the tendency to be a sore loser. Philippines still has a long way to go before it truly defeats China in terms of medals. 

Let us celebrate the win of Diaz. She has brought some hope for the Filipino people. The Dilawans and DDS are allowed to celebrate her win but please NO POLITICIZING. Let me close by bringing up this concern - what good will winning competitions abroad do if Filipinos don't accept competition in their HOME TERRITORY? Diaz's greatness didn't come overnight. She had to win some and lose some before she hit the gold medal.