Wanted: Next Olympic medal
THE PHILIPPINE Sports Commission is zoning in on the next Olympics and expects to get medals out of the effort.
PSC chair William Ramirez has put up a goal-oriented plan geared toward obtaining more medals in the global quadrennial Summer Games in Tokyo 2020 triggered by the silver medal feat of lifter Hidilyn Diaz in the recent Rio De Janeiro Olympics.
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“I if we expect to get medals, we should do something.”
Ramirez said they would invest heavily on foreign training and exposure, hire excellent coaches and make sure the basic necessities such as food and clean and comfortable living quarters are met.
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The silver medal of Diaz broke the country’s dearth of medals in the Olympics the past 20 years.