PassingDuchy@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Mac and cheese for life! Philippines’ heartfelt gifts to Carlos Yulo after double Olympic goldEnglish
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5 months agoIt’s not the kraft variety.
Yulo was also offered lifetime supplies of free buffets, baked mac and cheese, and chicken inasal, a grilled chicken dish, by various chain restaurants.
Most Olympic athletes are young and wear fashion athletic clothes donated by endorsers who help pay them. In addition in the shooting category you’re (as I understand it) allowed a certain amount of tech to help you out. This man is older, didn’t wear the endorsed fashion clothes or the tech and won gold so he feels like a rare “every man” win in the Olympics. He is not an “every man” (believe he’s a decorated military and police man in his country), but a lot more people can relate to him winning gold than a 14 year old who’s been training for this since diapers in a fashion house outfit.