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ROSE JEAN RAMOS will be the lone Filipino competitor in the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Youth World Championships set from June 11 to 18 in Leon, Mexico. Ramos, a neighbor of Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz in Barangay Mampang in Zamboanga City, will try to duplicate the two gold medals she won in last October’s championships in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She’s again competing in the girls’ 45-kg class. “I will try to bring honor to our country again,” the 16-year-old weightlifter told BusinessMirror on Wednesday while in a layover at the Narita Airport in Japan. “This is also f…