Two-time Olympian Marestella Torres is expected to carry the Philippines’ 17-man track-and-field team as they compete in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune, India from July 3 to 7.
The country’s top sports officials are in a quandary whether to adopt the have-money-will-travel scheme on team sports for the Myanmar Southeast Asian Games.
The Philippines Sports Commission has proposed to host a meeting among Southeast Asian Games nations with the goal of establishing a fixed set of rules on the sports that should be regularly included in the event’s calendar.
THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission wants the top performers of the coming Philippine National Games (PNG), regardless of origin and affiliation, to be rewarded with a slot in the national pool.
National athletes from any of the 10 sports previously identified as priority disciplines face a cut in allowances if they do not see action in the coming Philippine National Games.
PHILIPPINE Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia lamented yesterday the abrupt departure for home of Indonesian badminton coach Rexy Mainaky, saying it could have been prevented if the multimillion-peso deal was done through the agency.
THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission expects no less than superb efforts from the country’s priority athletes in the coming Philippine National Games, which has been designated as the qualifying meet for this year’s Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar.
THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission and Philippine Football Federation are joining hands with the German government in an effort to sustain the development of the “Beautiful Game” in the countryside.
THE PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee has shelved a plan to build a sports center in Clark Field, Pampanga, shifting its focus on the sprawling Philippine Arena which is nearing completion in Marilao, Bulacan, as the training hub of national athletes.
PHILIPPINE Sports Commission chair Richie Garcia announced yesterday that he has turned to the Filipino communities in Spain and Argentina for help in searching for athletes who could play for the country in international competitions.
The Philippine Sports Commission is now channeling its resources from the country’s participation in the coming Southeast Asian Games to the Asian Games and the Olympics.
Chair Richie Garcia of the Philippine Sports Commission is leaving this Sunday for Madrid, Spain, to start a four-country swing in Europe and South America to discover foreign athletes with Filipino lineage and tap foreign coaches for the national team.
The Philippine Sports Commission will channel the money it will save for sending a small delegation to the Southeast Asian Games to the training of athletes and the hiring of foreign coaches for an even bigger meet.
