MANILA, Philippines—Since it’s the Philippine Sports Commission which is on the losing end of the Olympic blame game, the sports agency’s chief Thursday said it will come out with “radical actions” to implement its oversight powers over its partners.

PSC chair Butch Ramirez said he would ask the national sports associations to change their system and evaluate records for the past 10 years immediately after the Beijing Olympics end Sunday.

NSAs which are not willing to follow, according to Ramirez, won’t get funds.

He cited that there are NSAs which have officials, coaches and athletes “who have outlived their purpose.”

“We take all the blame because we have all the money, but then being the disbursing agency we have oversight powers over them,” said Ramirez in a teleconference from Beijing a day before taekwondo-jin Mary Antoinette Rivero caps the fading RP campaign in the Games.

The same is true with the Philippine Olympic Committee, which Ramirez said must cooperate with the PSC.

“We can’t intervene, they are private but we can do something being the government agency which funds them,” added Ramirez.

Part of his “radical moves” is to focus on the 10 priority sports which the agency picked last year as possible sources of an Olympic gold medal.

Among the sports are boxing, taekwondo, wushu, shooting, archery, weightlifting, athletics and swimming. The PSC chief said fencing and badminton may still be added to the list.

The Southeast Asian Games, he said, would be given the least priority since it did not serve as true test of the country’s sporting excellence. He noted that after winning the overall championship in 2005, the country fell to sixth place two years later in Thailand.

“It’s useless to send 800 athletes there when we can’t even win a single medal in the Olympics,” said Ramirez.

The country reportedly spent P100 million during the 2007 SEAG which could have very well be apportioned to the select athletes’ training for the Olympics. The PSC earmarked P30 million for the training of the 15 national athletes who competed in Beijing.