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IT was pure coincidence, not the work of Providence, that on the same day - Monday, July 26, 2021 - President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his last State of the Nation Address (SONA) to the Congress at the Batasang Pambansa and Hidilyn Diaz simultaneously delivered a magnificent performance at the Tokyo Olympics to win what once seemed like the country's "rock of Sisyphus": the first Olympic gold medal of the nation in 97 years of competition.

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