{"id":51654,"date":"2015-06-12T11:04:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51654"},"modified":"2015-06-12T12:24:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T04:24:56","slug":"filipino-divers-dubbed-as-splash-brothers-in-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/12\/filipino-divers-dubbed-as-splash-brothers-in-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino divers dubbed as \u2018Splash Brothers\u2019 in SEA games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51656\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fabriga-and-Pahoyo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51656\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fabriga-and-Pahoyo.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino divers John Elmerson Fabriga and John David Pahoyo (Photo screengrab from SEA Games' video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fabriga-and-Pahoyo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Fabriga-and-Pahoyo-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino divers John Elmerson Fabriga and John David Pahoyo (Photo screengrab from SEA Games&#8217; video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Filipino divers John Elmerson Fabriga and John David Pahoyo landed flat on their backs and created splashes and ripples in their 3-meter springboard event performances at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia will then call for aquatics chief Mark Joseph for an explanation of the incident, with the divers scoring zeroes from their two dives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will give the opportunity for the Philippine Swimming Inc. president to explain because he fought for these divers to come here and compete\u2026 I saw these boys train at Rizal Memorial and they are good,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p>The videos of Fabriga and Pahoyo, now derisively nicknamed as the \u201cSplash Brothers,\u201d went viral online, with netizens questioning their performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not the first time I failed a dive, and I was not the first one who did so,\u201d Pahoyo said to his defense, while remaining positive even with his unsatisfactory performance.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Fabriga and Pahoyo finishing 7th and 8th in the final rankings, both were able to get in the scoreboard with their other dives.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia urged the Filipinos to acknowledge other Filipino athletes\u2019 great performances in athletics and boxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not remove our good performance because we focus on the negative like the inverted flags,\u201d Garcia said, referring to the inverted Philippine flags in the jerseys of sprinters Eric Cray and Kayla Richardson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino divers John Elmerson Fabriga and John David Pahoyo landed flat on their backs and created splashes and ripples in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":51656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}