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Filipina marathon icon Tabal tells young athletes: It’s okay to experience failure

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – As recording artist Mike Shinoda, as Fort Minor, said in his song, the recipe to 100% reason to remember the name is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure and 50% pain.

More than teaching children who are aspiring to be world-class athletes to succeed, it is also important to teach them to experience failure and defeat at an early age, Olympian Mary Joy Tabal said. 

Tabal, the first Filipina to qualify for the 2016 Olympic marathon in Rio de Jainero, Brazil, stressed that it is necessary for kids in their formative years to know how important failure is in their path to greatness. 

At the sidelines of the Milo Active Pilipinas 2025 launch here, Tabal told reporters that this realization is “the most important thing” for the youth. 

“Pinaka-importante iyan, kasi we can always compare sports to life. Kasi as an adult, we experience a lot of challenges, everyday nakikibaka tayo, but hindi sa lahat ng panahon panalo tayo sa buhay. So habang bata pa lang, tinuturuan na natin sila na normal lang talaga mag-fail, normal lang hindi muna mag-success,” she told reporters. 

“It takes time to achieve something, you have to work for that. So from there on, sa sports pala, pag-i-compare mo, when they get to be challenged kung ano yung mga magyayari nila in the future, at least nakikita lang sarili na it's just the same with sports, na hindi mo agad makukuha yung top, hindi mo makukuha agad yun,” she added.

Tabal bared that before, she laughed at the idea of competing in the Olympics because of her diminutive built and her roots in Cebu. 

But she bared that she never gave up and just tried to work on making it far despite hurdles.

“May pagdadaanan ka, and then you have to work for that, kailangan committed ka to getting what do you want yourself to be at the finish line. So from there pa lang, alam na nila kung paano nila ipanalo yung life nila,” she said. 

“Yung gusto nila sa buhay na habang bata pa lang, alam na nila na normal lang matalo, and then the importance of how to get back up again, and try again, na okay lang ulit-ulit,” she added.

“Though it's really impossible, but it will be an impossibility iyan kung hindi mo

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