Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Videos of their botched dives in the ongoing Southeast Asian Games in Singapore spread like a wildfire on the Internet, but Filipino divers John David Pahoyo and John Fabriga shrugged off a myriad of negative comments from the netizens.
In fact, they remained positive.
“This was not the first time I failed a dive, and I was not the first one who did so,” Pahoyo said in a Facebook post. “I am still proud because not all of us has the privilege to represent our country in a big sporting event like this.”
Pahoyo posted the aforementioned following their 3-meter springboard diving finals performance. Both athletes were scoreless in Dive 4 after their dive that saw them land backfirst.
“Hindi ko inakalang makaka-inspire tayo nang maraming tao through our mistake and the way kung paano natin hinarap yung embarrassment at failure natin,” he said in another post.
“Salamat po sa mga sumusuporta sa amin.”
Pahoya said netizens could have shared the dives where they did well.
“Why share our failed dives, when you can share the dives that we did well? Just asking. Salamat sa mga supporters ko,” he said in post that accompanied a 22-second video featuring their impressive dive.
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Yey! I'm so proud of us pakner John Fabriga, we really did our best despite of we just practiced this synchro dives for…
Posted by JD Pahoyo on Tuesday,
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