DLSU-D frosh skater bags eight medals                          

            Filipinos could conquer the Skating rink even when we are in a tropical zone.
            Mariel Toledo, freshman of BS Nursing, won in the Skate Asia 2007 tournament and proved to other countries that Filipinos are good at this sport, competing with different countries from Asia and the USA, held at SM Mall of Asia on August 12-18. She garnered three gold medals, one silver, and four bronze in eight different events.
             Toledo said that she could hardly stay the week-long event in competing for the country. Still, she garnered gold medals in Rhythmic Skating, Jump and Spin, and Couples technical events. She snatched the silver medal in Artistic event, the bronze medals in the Technical, Interpretive, Team Compulsories, and Ensemble events.
            Toledo said she did not expect to win in this international tilt because other competitors were excellent in their performance and, for the first time in her skating career she fell during her production number.
            She also contributed three out of 684 gold medals that the Philippine delegation won in the events.
            Each country consists of 200 skaters, some of them only presenting intermission numbers.

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