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'It's like winning Olympics,' says Carlos Yulo after bagging first gold for Philippines

Philippines gymnast Carlos Yulo said on Thursday (September 24) that winning the Asian Games floor exercise gold on Thursday felt like another Olympic triumph, elevated by redemption after he buried the disappointment of Jakarta 2018.

Yulo, the only Filipino to win two Olympic gold medals, added another major title to his collection with a score of 14.666 at the Nagoya City General Gymnasium, edging Kazakh runner-up Milad Karimi (14.600) and Japan's bronze-medal winner Shoma Tsukiyama (14.566) in the tightest of podiums. It came eight years after Yulo missed out on the medals in his only previous Asian Games in Indonesia when he fell in a tumbling pass and crashed to seventh after being the top qualifier for the floor final.

Yulo has come a long way since those setbacks, becoming his nation's first Olympic gymnastics champion when he won the floor title at Paris 2024 before adding a second gold in vault. The Japan-trained gymnast's celebrity has reached a point in the Philippines where his every movement draws a crowd, much like the nation's top women's tennis player, Alex Eala, who will bid for Asian Games gold next week.

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00:10this medal yeah it's it's it's like winning the Olympics also because it's
00:18kind of the same um back when I was 18 years old 2018 in Jakarta Asian Games
00:26it kind of messed up my my routine there I was a finalist on floor and vault but was
00:32wasn't really good on performance and at the same time in Tokyo Olympics it's
00:39kind of the same I was really messed up by it was really a good story and I feel
00:45like I redeemed it in this competition and now yeah I'm I'm just really glad
00:52that performance happened today
01:09still overwhelming right now I'm still overwhelmed on the performance that I
01:14did I felt really really good today even though it wasn't the performance that I
01:22wanted to show maybe for myself because I was preparing a 6.0 routine but during
01:29the pass on my second pass when I kicked the floor I was over bit too much like
01:38the power of the floor gave me was really too much and I know that if I make it to
01:44the double front I'm I'm gonna just go outside
02:00that's a big one and yeah I feel like there's still a lot of time but you know I'm preparing
02:10myself right now this competition is part of it also and yeah I'm I'm building my
02:18confidence also through through this competitions and I know when the time
02:27comes when we are there I just pray that I'm safe and I enjoy that moment and I
02:36appreciate that moment that's what I'm looking at it now I'm not really looking at
02:43as a gold medal a winning moment but really to have a good preparation and a
02:52healthy body I hope she's safe always I know she's gonna smash it always like um I'm
03:03really proud and super proud to all the Filipino athletes that represent
03:08Philippines I know that they're doing their best and you know Alex I know she
03:14can do it really really and um yeah I'm just really excited for other athletes
03:20athletes also to compete and give their best
03:52athletes with the athletes too
03:52athletes and you know overseas and you know the hasn't been the best and you know
03:55their best and they're really nice and a big part of college
03:56athletes and I know that they do it all the time they're gonna be
03:56in the area too many things they're actually doing their best and they're
03:57I have a good friend.
03:57The next stage there we have a good friend that I can do

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