‘YES OR YES?’ 💍 Skateboarding star Margielyn Didal is now engaged to longtime partner Jozel Manzanares! Didal proposed on their eighth anniversary as a couple. RELATED STORY:
So Margielyn Arda Didal can’t help but tear up after capturing the gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games women’s skateboarding street event.but the former street kid knew that she also just turned her family’s life around.
Japan’s Isa Kaya placed a distant second with 25.0 points from the combined two runs and two top tricks with 25.0 for silver, while 12-year-old Nyimas Bunga of Indonesia took the bronze with a tally of 19.8 in this captivating sport making its maiden appearance in the quadrennial, 45-nation sportsfest.
A veteran of the prestigious Street League championships in London last May – the first Southeast Asian to be invited to the event – Didal led from start to finish, setting the tone of the lopsided contest with an opening score of 6.7 points, highlighted by a difficult ”Board Slide” on the railings after taking the higher platform.
With a flair for the dramatic, her coup de grace was an acrobatic “Backside 50/50, 360-degree Flip Out” that drew oohs and ahhs from the gallery – an astonishing feat considering that it was the first time she did it in a major international competition.
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