Duterte (right) returns a salute from Olympic gold medalist weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz during a video conference at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, on July 28, 2021. - AP
MANILA (AFP): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte urged Olympic weightlifting champion Hidilyn Diaz on Wednesday (July 28) to "let bygones be bygones", two years after his government named the Filipina in a chart claiming to show a plot to undermine him.
Duterte spoke to the athlete in a Zoom call broadcast live on state television shortly after she arrived in Manila from Tokyo where she made history Monday winning the country's first Olympic gold medal.
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