After weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, another Filipino athlete is set to receive a cash incentive under the new athletes incentives law or Republic Act 10699, Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara said Wednesday.

This after Angara filed a resolution commending Filipino Class 8 table tennis Paralympian Josephine Medina, 46, who won a bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, ending the country’s 16-year medal drought.

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