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WHEN Hidilyn Diaz struck gold in the Tokyo Olympics last July 26, she dramatically ended 97 years of unremitting but fruitless toil by our athletes in the competition. She struck us dumb at first, and then we struggled to find the words to fittingly describe our collective joy and sense of national release from a horrid monkey on our back.

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