Cynthia Carrion does not want Carlos Yulo to be called “Caloy”

May nakakatuwang kuwento si Cynthia Carrion tungkol sa alaga niyang si Carlos Yulo.

Binanggit niya ito sa presscon ng online gaming company na Digiplus last weekend sa Cubao, Quezon City, kung saan binigyan ng five million pesos ang Olympic golden boy.

Ayon kay Cynthia, nagbiro raw si Manny V. Pangilinan na puwede niyang isali si Carlos sa isang basketball team, dahil mataas itong tumalon.

“You jump so high, you can be my basketball player. You can jump and shoot all the time,” ang kuwento ni Cynthia.

Agad naman daw na tumanggi si Carlos.

“He said no, I don’t want to be a basketball player.”

Si MVP ay isa sa mga malalaking sponsors ng mga basketball competitions at basketball teams sa Pilipinas.

CYNTHIA CARRiON ON CARLOS YULO’S NICKNAME

Magkatabi sina Cynthia at Carlos sa presscon.

Sa naganap na tanungan, maraming press members ang gumamit ng palayaw ng atleta na “Caloy.”

Dahil dito, nag-comment si Cynthia na sana ay i-drop na ang palayaw na ito.

“He’s also known internationally. That’s why I am always insisting for him to be called Carlos, because they know him as Carlos, not Caloy. And he’s known internationally, and when we’re abroad, it’s not only the Filipinos that want pictures with him, even the athletes,” sabi ni Cynthia.

Pagpapatuloy niya, sikat na sikat ang kanyang alaga kaya’t nakakaranas na ito ng interruptions sa kanyang training schedule.

“He’s very busy with all the athletes taking photos. It’s hard for him to train. I said, ‘Carlos, you have to train already.’”

CYNTHIA CARRiON’S PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Gayunpaman, bilang presidente ng Gymnastics Association of the Philippines (GAP), gagawin daw ni Cynthia ang lahat para umalagwa pa lalo ang career ni Carlos.

Aniya, may plano raw silang bumuo ng team around Carlos para mas maraming Pilipino gymnasts ang makasali sa Olympics.

Mag-isa lang kasi si Carlos na male Filipino gymnast sa Paris Olympics.

“He will be leading the team. The team is composed of four athletes and one reserve. So we really have to train these other three, so we can win as a team,” sabi ni Cynthia.

Nagpasalamat siya sa kongreso sa pagbibigay ng pondo para makahanap ng mga bagong atletang makakasama ng world-class gymnast.

Claim ni Cynthia, “The congress, the Speaker of the House gave us some funding for this because we have to have coaches [for] them.”

“Carlos said, ‘I don’t wanna charge them.’ Because a lot of them come from the poor regions, and even from different regions they come to train in our grassroots.

“We have a special place for them to train.”

Susuportahan din niya ang Manila-born athlete sa goal nitong manalo sa all-around gymnastics competition, na mas mahirap kaysa sa floor exercise at vault competitions.

“And he wants to win the gold medal for all-around. When he says all-around, that means the six apparatus and that is very-very difficult. So he’ll be training very hard.”

Para makamit ito, kukuha sila ng maraming coach para kay Carlos. Pupunta rin ito sa iba’t-ibang training camps abroad.

“And we have big plans to get a lot of coaches from other places. And we’re going to be sending him to a lot of training camps all over, in England, in Korea, in Japan,” pagpapaliwanag ni Cynthia.