Jericho Francisco proves to be prophetic as PH sweeps park golds in SEA Video games skateboard

Simply as Jericho Francisco Jr. predicted, the Philippines sweeps the skateboard park occasions as he and his pupil, Mazel Paris Alegado, rating a double gold within the 2025 Southeast Asian Video games

CHONBURI, Thailand – Skateboarder Jericho Francisco Jr. spoke it into existence.

Simply as Francisco predicted, the Philippines swept the park occasions as he and his pupil, Mazel Paris Alegado, scored a double gold within the 2025 Southeast Asian Video games on the SAT Excessive Sports activities Park in Bangkok on Saturday, December 13.

Francisco topped the boys’s park to copy his triumphant feat on residence soil in 2019, whereas Alegado dominated the ladies’s park to change into the youngest Filipino gold medalist on this version at 11 years previous.

One other one in all his mentees, 11-year-old Elizabeth Amador, earned the ladies’s park silver to seal a 1-2 end for the Philippines within the occasion.

“I can’t imagine it, to be right here with the gold medal and my college students in right here with the gold medal additionally and the silver medal,” stated Francisco. “A month and a half in the past, I already informed the boss that we have been going to brush it. I already knew it and I can’t imagine that we did it.”

Whereas clinching the gold is already rewarding by itself, attending to win collectively together with his college students proved much more fulfilling for the 24-year-old Francisco.

Knowledgeable skateboard teacher, Francisco performed a pivotal function within the improvement of each Alegado and Amador.

“I’ve been coaching these ladies since they have been little, little children,” stated Francisco. “I’ve truly seen Elizabeth do her first frontside grind. I’ve been with Maizel since she may barely do a one-foot bottom air. And now we’re right here with gold medals and medals collectively and I can’t imagine it.”

For Francisco, their triumphs are proof of Filipinos’ expertise.

“It simply reveals that us Filipinos can do it and we will be on prime. Regardless of if now we have restricted assets or not, we will do it and we will compete with one of the best,” he stated. – Rappler.com