{"id":66031,"date":"2024-08-05T13:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/paris-olympics-2024-carlos-yulo-artistic-gymnastics-floor-vault-philippines-gifts-gold"},"modified":"2024-08-05T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T11:06:18","slug":"mac-and-cheese-for-life-philippines-heartfelt-gifts-to-carlos-yulo-after-double-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66031","title":{"rendered":"Mac and cheese for life! Philippines\u2019 heartfelt gifts to Carlos Yulo after double Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pledges of pesos, property and pasta as \u2018Caloy\u2019 makes history for his country with floor exercise and vault victories in artistic gymnastics<\/p>\n

The Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo\u2019s historic double gold medal win at the Paris Olympics has been celebrated across the Philippines, with businesses showering the athlete with gifts \u2013 from cash and a new home, to a lifetime supply of mac and cheese.<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Marcos, the president, said the Philippines had \u201cwitnessed history\u201d when Yulo became the first Filipino man to win an Olympic gold medal after competing in the artistic gymnastic floor exercise on Saturday. He is only the second Filipino athlete to win an Olympic gold, after weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz in 2020. On Sunday, Yulo soared to the top of the podium again in the vault, thus becoming the first Filipino to win two golds \u2013 and at a single Olympics.<\/p>\n

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Pledges of pesos, property and pasta as \u2018Caloy\u2019 makes history for his country with floor exercise and vault victories in artistic gymnasticsThe Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo\u2019s historic double gold medal win at the Paris Olympics has been celebrated acro…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,342,3138,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-olympic-games","category-paris-olympic-games-2024","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66037,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66031\/revisions\/66037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}