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Manny Pacquiao to give cash incentive to Olympian Hidilyn Diaz

The Philippines has a lean delegation of 13 Olympic qualifiers representing various sports who are now competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics. Diaz is the first member of the delegation to win a medal for the Philippines.

Diaz will receive P5 million cash reward from the government for winning the silver medal plus a long list of gifts and cash incentives from the government and the private sector including an undisclosed amount from Sen. Pacquiao for being the first woman in the Philippines to win a silver medal in the Olympics.

In an earlier interview in the senate, Pacquiao said he has already thought of rewarding Diaz from his own pocket for her Olympic accomplishment.

“Iniisip ko na yan. Wag na natin announce kasi di naman government money yan,” Pacquiao said. (I thought about it already. Let us not announce it because it is not a government money anyway.)

The 25-year-old weightlifter from Zamboanga earned her ticket to the 2016 Rio Olympics after winning several events in the Asian Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan from April 24 to 30 this year.

Before the latest Asian Championship competition, Diaz was active in major weightlifting competitions in Europe including the one he had in the London Olympics following her participation in the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships in Paris. Read more:

Meanwhile, Pacquiao, who has been designated as chairman of the senate committee on sports, plans to conduct a senate hearing on the reported anomalies in the Philippine Sports Commission following the disclosure from media that silver medalist for boxing Onyok Velasco has not received part of his incentive for winning the medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

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