‘Lupang Hinirang’ interest boost, played at Olympics twice for Yulo’s golds

The Philippine national anthem, ‘Lupang Hinirang’ attracted the public’s attention with a hike on its Google interest after gymnast Carlos Yulo won 2 Gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics in 2 consecutive days.

As of 11:44 p.m. of August 4, ‘Lupang Hinirang’ garnered a peak of 100 interests over time on Google trends. 

The national anthem was played as Yulo was awarded as the champion of floor exercise and vault at the 2024 Paris Games.

The “Golden Boy” scored a total of 15.116 for his two vaults in the finals, and 15.000 points points for his pet event, the floor exercise last Saturday. 

With Yulo’s double gold, the Philippines is at rank 20 in the medal tally with China (43) on the lead.

Yulo made history after getting hailed as the first Filipino multi medalist in a single year and the first Southeast Asian to win multiple golds in the Olympics.

He also bagged the second and third Gold medal of the Philippines ever since it joined the world’s most prestigious games in 1914, following Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjos’ Gold in weightlifting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.