THE Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) has 656 athletes on the record to this point, and is estimating a delegation of 874 together with officers, for the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games in Vietnam.
POC President Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino stated that majority of the 39 nationwide sports activities associations that are fielding athletes to Vietnam have submitted tentative rosters for the Could 12 to 25 Video games.
Additionally on the tentative record are 177 crew officers (coaches, crew managers and/or NSA heads or representatives) and 20 members of the medical (medical doctors, nurses and masseurs/therapists) and administrative employees.
The Philippines is competing in 39 of the 40 sports activities programmed by Vietnam for its solely second internet hosting of the Video games since 2003. In these 39 sports activities, the nation is collaborating in 44 disciplines.
“Evaluating the numbers after we hosted the Video games in 2019, we’ll have a delegation that’s slashed virtually in half from three years in the past,” Tolentino stated. “And a fast have a look at the numbers present we’ll be hard-pressed to repeat as general champions.”
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There have been 1,115 Filipino athletes in 2019—an automated privilege that host international locations have—and so they gained 149 gold, 117 silver and 121 bronze medals for a assured general title.
“However we’ll have a combating crew in Vietnam, setting apart the difficulties of coaching and competing or coaching abroad due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” Tolentino stated.
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Of the 44 disciplines, the POC has but to obtain a tentative record for athletics, males’s 3×3 and 5×5 basketball, weightlifting and jiujitsu.
Efren “Bata” Reyes sees motion once more for the Philippine crew.
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The deadline for the submission of entries by names is on March 12 and Tolentino stated the POC is hoping to finish the record by that point, together with anticipated revisions from NSAs which already complied with the physique’s February 24 inside deadline.
“A number of NSAs had been allowed to submit tentative lists as a result of they’re nonetheless finishing their remaining {qualifications} or trials,” he stated.
Competitors venues for Filipino athletes are unfold out in 4 clusters though majority will probably be in the primary hub of Hanoi, Tolentino stated. The POC based mostly the clusters on their proximity to Hanoi.
Filipino athletes will probably be competing in diving, swimming, finswimming, archery, athletics, badminton, 3×3 and 5×5 basketball, billiards and snooker, bodybuilding, bowling, boxing, canoe-kayak, chess, biking, dancesports, esports, fencing, soccer, golf, gymnastics (inventive, cardio and rhythmic), seashore handball, judo, jiujitsu, karate, kickboxing, kurash, muaythai, pencak silat, rowing, sepak takraw, taking pictures, desk tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon/duathlon, volleyball, seashore volleyball, vovinam, weightlifting, wrestling and wushu.
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The Philippines just isn’t collaborating in Vietnam’s fortieth sport of xiangqi (Chinese language or elephant chess).
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