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\n\t\t\t\t\tLeo Mhar Lobrido, who comes from the proud Vicera boxing family that has produced Olympians, puts his loss in the Asian Youth Games in Bahrain into perspective\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
SAKHIR, Bahrain \u2013 Losing is sometimes a bitter pill to swallow, but boxer Leo Mhar Lobrido is turning his latest defeat into his greatest motivation.<\/p>\n
Lobrido is eyeing a golden comeback after settling for bronze in the Asian Youth Games following a unanimous decision loss to Uzbekistan\u2019s Abdugani Yorkinjonov in the semifinals of the boys\u2019 46kg division at the Exhibition World Bahrain here on Tuesday, October 28.<\/p>\n
One of the Philippines\u2019 top medal bets in the continental showdown for athletes 14 to 18 years old, Lobrido got denied his shot at the gold as Yorkinjonov earned the nod of all five judges, 29-28, 29-28, 30-27, 30-27, 30-27. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was probably just not for me. Maybe I\u2019ll win gold in the next competition,\u201d said Lobrido in Filipino.<\/p>\n
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Coming from the proud Vicera boxing family that has produced Olympians in Isidro (1992 Barcelona) and Virgilio (1996 Atlanta), the 16-year-old from Bago City, Negros Occidental, lived up to his billing with convincing wins in his first two bouts. <\/p>\n
Lobrido dominated Jordan\u2019s Salte Al Hadidi in the preliminary, then beat Sri Lanka\u2019s Binul Dulnada Dewasiri Narayana\u00a0in the quarterfinals to guarantee himself a medal.<\/p>\n
But the taller Yorkinjonov ended the Filipino\u2019s run, with the Uzbek\u2019s narrow 3-2 win in the opening round setting the tone of the fight. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe loss means that I still have to do more training and apply the things I lack. Maybe next time I\u2019ll win gold,\u201d said Lobrido, who also served as the Philippines\u2019 flag bearer in the opening ceremony together with volleybelle Harlyn Serneche. <\/p>\n
Still, the bronze was an achievement for Lobrido as he delivered the lone medal of the Philippine boxing team, which brought six boxers: four males and two females. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. Leo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-250963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}