Cover Girl of the May 28, 2014 Time issue is Li Na, a tennis star from China. A distinct merited honor.

Chino Trinidad is heading a project to honor our athletic greats. I can only encourage the effort. I hope there is some way we can honor Victoria Manalo, whose musikero father migrated from Orani, Bataan, decades ago - to the US, where she was born. In 1948 she competed in diving  in the London Olympics and won two golds. A decade ago, she went to Orani on a sentimental journey home, to wild acclaim. A year ago I visited the two-acre park in San Francisco named after her, the two-hectare Victoria Manalo Dravies Park.

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