{"id":282750,"date":"2018-08-22T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=282750"},"modified":"2018-08-22T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:00:04","slug":"san-nicolas-wants-more-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/san-nicolas-wants-more-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"San Nicolas wants more tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_282751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282751\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/weightliftingpix-1.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-282751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel San Nicolas honors the CNMI flag during the awards presentation in last month\u2019s 9th Micronesian Games in Yap. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Weightlifter Angel San Nicolas eyes more tournaments after winning in last month\u2019s 9th Micronesian Games in Yap<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just got to keep competing until I can\u2019t compete anymore,\u201d said San Nicolas, who  swept the three gold medals at stake in the men\u2019s 105-kilogram division in the weightlifting event in the Micro Games.<\/p>\n<p>One of the tournaments he is targeting in the XVI Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa next year.<\/p>\n<p>San Nicolas added that although he won three medals in Yap, that was not his best and he aims for a better showing in upcoming tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy preparations for the Micro Games started in January, that was a mistake. I started too early, which meant I peaked too soon. It paid off, but I didn\u2019t perform to my best, and I wanted to show what I can really do,\u201d the 2017 Mini Games bronze medalist said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy for the medals, but I know my best wasn\u2019t put on display that day. It is what it is. Honestly, I was just happy that it was over,\u201d San Nicolas said.<\/p>\n<p>While he was not contended with his own performance, San Nicolas tipped his hat to his teammates\u2014Rodrigo Ada, Bonny Cruz, Antonette Labausa, and Joey Tudela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy for them. They\u2019ve exceeded my expectations. They performed better than I did. Two of them went 6\/6 and two went 5\/6. Three of them were able to set new personal bests. So I\u2019m really proud of them. I wouldn\u2019t have asked for another team. We bonded pretty well, no drama whatsoever. We were very encouraging of each other, so it couldn\u2019t have gone better,\u201d the weightlifter said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weightlifter Angel San Nicolas eyes more tournaments after winning in last month\u2019s 9th Micronesian Games&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":282751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21004,845,783,21006],"class_list":["post-282750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-antonette-labausa","tag-micro-games","tag-micronesian-games","tag-rodrigo-ada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}