Bachmann wants active PSC role in selecting Asiad athletes
PSC chairman Dickie Bachmann throughout the SEA Video games send-off ceremony. MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER
Because the nineteenth Asian (Asiad) Video games looms over the horizon, the Philippine Sports activities Fee (PSC) received’t confine itself merely as a funding associate to the nationwide group.
PSC chair Richard “Dickie’’ Bachmann on Tuesday needs the company to be extra lively within the choice and preparation of Filipino athletes for the quadrennial occasion by the creation of a joint job drive with the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC).
“There ought to be a committee between the PSC and the POC relating to the Asian Video games,’’ stated Bachmann throughout the Philippine Sportswriters Affiliation Discussion board held on the PSC constructing contained in the Rizal Memorial Sports activities Advanced in Manila.
“We’re engaged on a standards on the sports activities to be allowed within the Asian Video games. We are going to work it out with the POC and see a typical floor on the sports activities that will likely be going,’’ added the PSC chief.Standards
The POC initially set a standards the place the gold medalists on the current Southeast Asian Video games in Cambodia have already got an inside monitor whereas silver medalists may also be thought of.
POC president Abraham “Bambol’’ Tolentino made it clear that athletes and their nationwide sports activities associations that want to be on the Asiad on Sept. 23-Oct. 8 in Hangzhou, China, however fall outdoors that set standards will compete at their very own expense.
A complete of 426 athletes from 40 sports activities comprise the preliminary delegation guidelines of the POC.
PSC Commissioner Fritz Gaston proposed to focus extra on medal-rich Olympic sports activities equivalent to athletics and gymnastics, the place the likelihood of touchdown medals for Workforce Philippines is excessive.
“We now have to scrutinize on how we choose our athletes and hopefully we may have extra high quality athletes with higher potentials for medals,’’ stated Gaston, who accompanied Bachmann on the weekly discussion board together with Commissioners Bong Coo and Edward Hayco. INQ
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