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Despite lucrative offers in US, why Carlos Yulo stuck it out with Japanese coach

Brian Yalung

Posted at Oct 14 2019 08:28 AM

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Carlos Edriel Yulo scored a milestone over the weekend, becoming the first Filipino to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics
Championships in Germany. The 19-year-old’s triumph also punched his ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with the feat.

Yulo is scheduled to fly into the country Tuesday and expected to get a hero’s welcome. Among those expected to welcome him are his parents, Angelica
and Mark Yulo.

Even before Carlos competed in Germany, both acknowledged that their son faced tall odds. He needed a podium finish to book his place at the 2020
Tokyo Olympics but needed to get past veteran gymnasts.

“Ako po, di talaga nag-e-expect this 2020. Kasi kalaban niya is mga beterano na talaga. Yung iba title-holder na. Sa kanya, baguhan pa siya. Di ko
naman inaalis pag-asa ko na masilat niya. So kung bibigay ni Lord, super thankful kami,” said Angelica before Caloy pulled off the feat.

Looking ahead, the next immediate goal for Carlos is winning the gold medal. The Yulos acknowledged that expectations are high on Caloy. In fact, they
said that nothing short of a gold medal is expected from their son.

“Sa SEA Games naman medyo kampante ako sa kaniya. Kaya naman niya po,” Angelica said.

When asked what could motivate Carlos, she revealed that her son mentioned something to her -- a promise.

“Bago po siya umalis nung huli, sabi niya hintayin namin siya this year. ’Yun nga, may balak daw po siya umalis dito sa lugar namin kasi medyo toxic sa
may amin. So ’pag andito siya, hindi siya makatulog ng maayos, di sya makapagpahinga. Ang sabi niya, ‘Hintayin niyo ako this year, ma, after SEA
Games,’ ” Angelica said.

For the proud mother, she believes this will be her son’s motivation heading into the SEA Games.

“Siguro, ito ’yung motivation niya para kunin niya ’yung gold medals,” she added.

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Yulo turned down US offers

Even before ruling the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Germany, Carlos has done more than enough to get noticed. In fact, Angelica
revealed that her son had been invited by American schools on full scholarship but turned them down. The reason? Loyalty to Japan.

Carlos does not want to part with his Japanese coach, Munehiro Kugimiya. Had he accepted any offer, it meant that he would cut ties with his current
coach. He feels that he owes much to coach Kugimiya who is also behind Caloy's success.

“Syempre po kasi ’yung utang na loob niya kay coach Mune (Munehiro Kugimiya). Kasi siya na ’yung naghirap sa kaniya. Siya na ’yung tumayong
tatay niya sa Japan. Si coach Mune na ang gumawa ng lahat para sa kaniya,” Angelica said.

“So kung tatanggapin niya ’yung alok ng US, hindi na si coach Mune hahawak sa kanya. Tinatanaw lang niya ’yung utang na loob sa kaniya kaya
dinecline nya ’yung offer.”

(For more sports coverage, visit the ABS-CBN Sports website).

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Hong Kong’s economic pain deepens as unrest continues

Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times

Posted at Oct 14 2019 08:06 AM

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Tourists ride a tour bus in Hong Kong, Oct. 11, 2019. Hoteliers, salesclerks, restaurateurs and tour guides have been racked with fears that
the protests across the city are scaring away potential visitors. Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times

HONG KONG — It was the second day of Golden Week, usually one of Hong Kong’s busiest shopping periods, and Matthew Tam and his co-workers
at a jewelry store were looking as lonely as a band of Maytag repairmen, surrounded by display cases of luxury watches with nary a customer in sight.

Sales at the store, in the once-teeming shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui, have plummeted 90 percent in recent months, thanks in large part to the
evaporation of tourists from mainland China who have been staying away since anti-government protests began in June.

“It’s quite worrying,” said Tam, 56, who relies almost entirely on commissions for his income. “I don’t know how much longer I can endure.”

Hoteliers, salesclerks, restaurateurs and tour guides across Hong Kong have been racked by similar fears as footage of tear gas-shrouded clashes between
riot police officers and furious protesters are broadcast around the world, scaring off potential visitors.

During China’s Golden Week holiday, which started Oct. 1, lines for rides at Disneyland were refreshingly short. Malls normally thronged with shoppers
were closed for several days. And some of the city’s priciest restaurants, rattled by empty tables, were offering deep discounts.

With the city’s Beijing-backed leadership refusing to concede to protesters’ demands for free elections and an independent investigation into allegations
of police misconduct, an unmistakable sense of alarm is spreading among both small-business owners and corporate executives who see no way out of
the impasse.

“People are hunkering down, but it’s really starting to hurt, and the longer this goes on, the gloomier the picture starts to feel,” said Tara Joseph,
president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, who has lived in the city for nearly two decades.

The pall thickened after Hong Kong leadership invoked emergency powers to ban the wearing of face masks during street rallies, a move that prompted
fresh unrest and fury among those already angered by a slow erosion of civil liberties. The government has avoided harsher measures for now, but the
prospect of restrictions like a curfew remains widely discussed.

“Emergency ordinances, face-mask bans and curfews are not the best way to restore business confidence,” Joseph said.

The tourism industry is a major driver of Hong Kong’s economy that alone keeps several hundred thousand people employed. But the overall number of
tourists arriving in this semi-autonomous territory has plummeted. Arrivals at Hong Kong’s international airport in August fell nearly 40 percent from a
year earlier, even before the violence at protests escalated.

The falloff has been especially steep among mainlanders, who made up more than three-quarters of the 65 million people arriving here last year. The
flow of visitors from mainland China nose-dived 55 percent during Golden Week.

The numbers are stark. Hotel occupancy rates are roughly 60 percent, down from 91 percent earlier this year. Retail sales dipped by 23 percent in
August, the steepest decline on record. Many economists believe the city’s economy is slipping into recession.
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The deepening crisis is reflected in a cascade of cancellations of major events like the Hong Kong Tennis Open, the Hong Kong Cyclothon, and the
Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival, all of which had been scheduled for this month.

For now, international finance and real estate, other pillars of the Hong Kong economy, have been largely unscathed. Corporate leaders worry, however,
about the long-term impact to Hong Kong’s reputation as a stable hub for multinationals in greater China, especially if a crackdown leads to serious
bloodshed or Beijing tries to interfere with the city’s hallowed independent court system.

Anxiety over shifting sentiments was heightened by a Goldman Sachs report estimating that at least $3 billion in investment had in recent months shifted
from Hong Kong to Singapore, another former British colony and a regional rival for international finance. Law firms, global banks and trading
companies have been drawing up contingency plans for the worst-case scenario.

There have been some reports of layoffs, and a few of the city’s ritziest hotels have been forcing employees to take unpaid leaves or have their wages
temporarily trimmed.

“We really want the violence to stop as soon as possible so Hong Kong can be promoted around the world as a safe place,” said Ronald Wu, executive
director of Gray Line Tours of Hong Kong, which has seen its business drop by more than half.

Alice Chan, executive director of the Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong, said only 16 tour groups arrived during the first few days of the Golden
Week holiday, compared with the 110 that arrived daily last year.

Chan said antipathy toward Hong Kong spiked in August after protesters shut down the airport and attacked two men from mainland China. The
spectacle of protesters burning the national flag on other occasions, she said, also has not helped. “These incidents have hurt the feelings of
mainlanders,” she said.

On the mainland, China’s state-run propaganda machine has cast the protests as a riotous anti-China separatist movement orchestrated by the United
States and other countries eager to tear the motherland apart. Chinese censors have blocked news reports and images that present the protesters’ yearning
for democracy and their fear of being subsumed into the mainland’s authoritarian maw.

Hong Kong Disneyland would normally have been crammed with mainlanders during the holiday, but this year, protests clearly dented the mood at the
Happiest Place on Earth. The vast parking lots were mostly empty, just three of 16 ticket windows were open, and lines for many attractions were short
or nonexistent.

Zhou Wenhua, 38, a real estate sales executive from Shanghai, was thrilled. “If we went to Shanghai Disneyland this week, we wouldn’t be able to
move,” she said after taking her family on a spin through the It’s a Small World ride on an otherwise empty boat.

Unlike many mainlanders roaming the park in mouse ears and gnawing on roast turkey legs, grilled fish balls and pressed squid, Zhou was willing to talk
about the protests, which she described as an “insurrection.”

In an echo of Beijing’s narrative, she cast participants as spoiled children unappreciative of the Chinese government and its achievements. “Without the
Communist Party, China would still be impoverished and weak,” she said. “They really should stop their rioting.”

Not that she had witnessed protests firsthand. Zhou and her family had spent the previous two nights cloistered at their downtown hotel room, dining on
room service.

Locals, fearful of impromptu subway shutdowns that can leave them stranded, are also less likely to meet friends or dine out. The West Kowloon
Cultural District, a $3 billion, decadelong project that opened to sold-out performances this year, has seen ticket sales plunge. For the first time this
month, district officials canceled several events in anticipation of protests and transportation shutdowns.

For many, the looming question is whether a prolonged or precipitous economic decline will chip away at popular support for the movement. A few
business owners shook their heads in dismay over the vandalism and disruptions to public transport, though they asked to remain anonymous given the
growing vigilante-style attacks on those the protesters deem hostile to their cause.

Surrounded by display cases stacked full with $70,000 Rolexes and $20,000 Tudor watches, Cherry Chang, 30, owner of a small store in Tsim Sha Tsui,
the shopping district, said sales have halved over the last few months.

Still, she said she was willing to endure short-term financial pain for the loftier goals of genuine democracy and preservation of the city’s generous civil
liberties.

“I don’t mind losing money to support certain ideals,” she said.

Cheuk-Yan Lee, general secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, which supports the protest movement, said he thought most Hong
Kongers would blame the government for any hardship, not protesters. The bigger threat, he said, is losing the freedoms and reliably independent courts
that coaxed so many international companies to set up shop here in the first place.

“What will really hurt Hong Kong is not a brief drop in consumption but a loss of faith from global investors,” he said. “Instead of suppressing the
protests, the government needs to revive confidence in the rule of law. Otherwise, we will just end up being another Chinese city.”

2019 The New York Times Company

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