Boxer Eumir Marcial, one of the early qualifiers for the Philippines in the Tokyo Olympics, just unleashed a combination to come to the defense of embattled compatriot Irish Magno.
“If we decide to speak up, we end up being in the wrong. Irish deleted her post because she was asked to. Now, I’m going to be wrong, too, for speaking out and not reaching out,” Marcial wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday afternoon, referring to a controversial Magno post that was since deleted after it created an uproar and put sports leaders in a bad light.
“I’ve been reaching [out] since last year. You asked me what I needed over here, but nothing has happened,” a portion of the entry read…
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