Touching tribute to late Lydia de Vega - Asia's 'track queen' of the 1980s

Lydia de Vega became a track superstar in the Philippines at 18 years old. - THE NEW PAPER

MANILA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Track legend Lydia de Vega - once hailed as Asia's fastest woman and one of the Philippines' most decorated and beloved athletes - has died after a four-year battle with breast cancer. She was 57.

"She fought the very good fight and is now at peace," De Vega's daughter Stephanie de Koenigswarter said in a Twitter post late Wednesday (Aug 10).