For stashing away with the overall championship in the just-held Southeast Asian Games, the Philippines has, one more time, shed off the tag as the region’s “Sick Man” in sports.

That was the second time since the country sent off its first athletic contingent in the biennial conclave in 42 years, or 14 years from the time the Filipino athletes won the overall gonfalon in 2005.

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