Finally, the Philippines get its first win in Beijing on Wushu, a special demonstration game. Unfortunately for us, Wushu as a demo game is not included in the official sports counting for the Medal Tally/Count. Willy Wang bested 10 other athletes in the no-weapon category, and 2 other Filipino got bronzes in their respective Wushu games.

Willy Wang Wins Gold for Philippines at the Beijing Olympics 2008

Demonstration games are usually employed by the IOC before they determine a sport to be any Olympic game. As a trivia, Taekwondo was a demonstration game in Seoul 1988 before it was deemed applicable for Olympic stature in Barcelona 1992. With the Philippine showing on wushu, we can only hope that the sport becomes a mainstream game come London 2012. Our first Olympic Gold ever stands waiting for our wushu athletes.

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