Panel chairman Rep. Joey Salceda said House Bill 421, approved by his committee yesterday, "exempts not just the prizes that are handed out by brands and companies after the win,' but also "the donations toward their training one year before the competition." HB 421, originally dubbed the "Hi-dilyn Diaz Law" in the 18th Congress (2019-2022), didn't make it in the Senate.
Salceda said the measure should also be named in honor of gymnast Carlos Yulo, who won two gold medals in the ongoing Paris Olympics. Weightlifter Diaz won the country's first gold medal in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
"What that teaches us is that the prize is never won on the day of the competition itself, but years before.
Hard work, determination, and sheer grit through many years of training wins over talent," Salceda said, recalling Yulo’s interview when he was 12 years old that winning the Olympics was his “dream.”
“It follows the philosophy I have espoused as Albay governor: rescue is a bad word, because there is no need for rescue when all preparations have been made. Capacity is everything. The approach is to incentivize not the prize, but the preparation. Champions are not made overnight,” Salceda said.
Salceda’s committee also approved making the bill’s exemption “retroactive to Jan. 1, 2024.”
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