KING CARLOS COMES HOME

HERO'S WELCOME FOR OLYMPIC CHAMPION

- JOEY VILLAR

After carrying the country’s Olympic campaign and later the Philippine flag with boxer Aira Villegas in the closing ceremony of the Paris Games Sunday, it’s time for the whole country and its 115 million population to welcome Carlos Yulo when he returns home today.

Yulo, along with his two glittering gold medals in floor exercise and vault he captured in the French capital, will plane in late in the afternoon in the company of his band of supporters that include Gymnastics Association of the Philippines chief Cynthia Carrion.

Also on that chartered flight are boxers Villegas and Nesthy Petecio, who accounted for the country's other two medals with a bronze each.

From the airport, where he will be received by a Philippine Sports Commission welcoming committee, Yulo, together with the other Olympians, will proceed to the Villamor Air Base where their respective families await.