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It’s too bad that she wasn’t tapped to coach our athletes instead.
“Former track star Lydia de Vega, now 50, who retired in 1994, continues to inspire children as an athletics coach in Singapore. Once hailed as Asia’s fastest woman,she has been working as an athletics coach in the primary and secondary schools in Singapore for the past 10 years. She also coaches people with disabilities.,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
As it turns out, De Vega “has been watching the athletics competition in the 28th Southeast Asian Games since it started.”
She related, “Since day one of the athletics competition, nandito lang ako palagi para manood. Nakita ko lahat ng mga players natin. Yung iba medyo bata pa. But along the way magi-improve pa naman sila (Since day one of the athletics competition, I’ve always been here to watch. I have seen all our players. There are some who are still so young. But along the way, they’ll improve even more).”
The report recalled: “De Vega started her track career when, at 18 years old, she won gold medals in the women’s 200-meter and 400-meter events of the 1981 Manila SEA Games. She also won a gold in the 1982 New Delhi Asian Games, as well as in the 1986 Seoul Asian Games. She also ruled the 100-meter event in 1987, 1991 and 1993 SEA games, and the 200-meter run in the 1981, 1983, and 1987 games.”
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