No glass ceiling

A week after the warm reception received by our new channel "Basketball Universe," The Nest Studios embarks on another adventure.

- By BILL VELASCO

We want to acknowledge the prevalent power and widespread success of Filipinas in sports. There has been a dramatic shift in attention, which now encompasses female participation in several sports that was not previously noticed. In the last 20 years, women, starting with volleyball, have taken over many mainstream sporting events. Thus was born "Women Who Win," a new, thrice-weekly sports program about women, for women and by women.

Women have always shown excellence in Philippine sports dating back well more than half a century. In 1948, Filipino-American Victoria Manalo Draves won two gold medals in platform and springboard diving in the London Olympics. Forty years later, bowler, Arianne Cerdeña earned the gold medal in the Seoul Olympics, though it did not count in the medal standings. Finally, in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Hidilyn Diaz won a gold medal that did count, and set two Olympic records in weightlifting.