Carlos Yulo to skip SEA Video games in Thailand as a consequence of one-medal restrict

Gymnastics star Carlos Yulo — who has gained 18 medals within the final three SEA Video games, half of them golds — sits out the biennial showpiece

MANILA, Philippines – Filipino gymnastics ace Carlos Yulo is skipping the Southeast Asian Video games in Thailand in December over a rule that limits him to win only one medal.

Gymnastics Affiliation of the Philippines president Cynthia Carreon confirmed the information on Saturday, October 18, saying the Olympic double gold medalist trusts his teammates to get the job accomplished.

“He isn’t going to compete, in no way. The nation, Thailand, will not be considering of the athletes. They’re considering of the medal acquire that they’ll have,” Carreon informed Rappler.

The upcoming SEA Video games marks the second time a bunch nation put a medal cap in gymnastics — a transfer seen to maintain Yulo, who gained the boys’s ground train and vault within the 2024 Paris Olympics, from dominating after he turned the most bemedalled Filipino athlete within the 2019 and 2021 editions.

Yulo placed on a present at house when the Philippines hosted in 2019 as he snagged two golds and 5 silvers, then he did higher in 2021 (postponed to 2022 because of the pandemic) in Vietnam with a five-gold, two-silver haul.

Within the 2023 SEA Video games hosted by Cambodia, Yulo was allowed to win simply 4 of the utmost seven medals in males’s inventive gymnastics.

Yulo went on to seize two golds (particular person all-around and parallel bars) and two silvers (group and nonetheless rings) in 2023, with teammates John Ivan Cruz (ground train) and Juancho Miguel Besana (vault) additionally placing the highest prize.

“A very long time in the past,” stated Carreon when requested when the SEA Video games organizers introduced the medal restrict. “We have been considering and considering of whether or not to go or to not go.”

“He stated, ‘I’ll give it to my teammates. They will win the equipment. They will win one.’”

In keeping with Carreon, the person all-around and group competitions have been additionally scratched out by Thailand.

Yulo is at present in Jakarta, Indonesia, to compete within the World Inventive Gymnastics Championships that’s set to start out on Sunday, October 19.– Rappler.com