FILIPINO surfer Roger Casugay will be hailed as a hero not only in his country but all of South-East Asia – and it will not be because he won a gold medal. It will be because he didn’t.
Casugay gave up his chance of a gold medal when he opted instead to rescue his Indonesian competitor Arip Nurhidayat who was in trouble in the strong seas.
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