Tolentino, nanatiling POC prexy at 'Working Team' nagwagi rin

ni MC @Sports News | Dec. 1, 2024

Kinamayan ni Chito Loyzaga bilang pagbati sa nagwagi niyang katunggali na si Abraham 'Bambol' Tolentino sa pagpili ng pamunuan ng Philippine Olympic Committee. (pocpix)

Apat na taon muling termino ang haharapin ni Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino nang muling mahalal na pangulo at ang kanyang buong “Working Team” sa idinaos na halalan sa Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) sa East Ocean Garden Restaurant sa Parañaque City.

“The General Assembly has spoken,” ayon kay Tolentino na nakatipon ng 45 boto na kumatawan sa 75 percent ng 61 voting members ng POC. Nakakuha ang kanyang katunggali na si Chito Loyzaga ng 15 boto.

“I think performance was the basis [of landslide victory],” ani Tolentino, 60, sa reporters matapos ang pilian ng pamunuan na pinamahalaan ni Atty. Teodoro Kalaw IV kasama si Philippine Sports Commission commissioner Olivia “Bong” Coo at Letran-Calamba Rector at President Fr. Napoleon Encarnacion, OP, bilang members. Landslide din sa 53 votes si basketball head Al Panlilio maging ang kapwa “Working Team” bet na si Rep. Richard Gomez na nanguna bilang second vice president, at manaig kay skateboarding Carl Sambrano, 37-22. May 54 votes si Dr. Jose Raul Canlas (surfing) habang si Donaldo Caringal (volleyball) ay may 47 points para sa “Working Team.”

Kumumpleto sa team ni Tolentino para sa lopsided victory sina bagong Executive Board members Leonora Escollante(canoe-kayak, 45 votes), Alvin Aguilar (wrestling, 44 votes, Ferdinand Agustin (jiu-jitsu, 41 votes), Alexander Sulit (judo, 41 votes) at Leah Gonzales (fencing, 40 votes). “For the athletes, athletes, athletes …,” ani Tolentino.

Sa bilang na 61 voters, 58 ay mula sa national sports associations at 2 mula sa Athletes Commission at isa mula sa International Olympic Committee representative Mikaela Cojuangco Jaworski. Wala sa okasyon ang Rugby.

Olympic athletes, coaches, atbp., babakunahan na kontra COVID-19

ni Mary Gutierrez Almirañez | May 25, 2021

Babakunahan na kontra COVID-19 sa ika-28 ng Mayo ang mga atleta, coach at iba pang sasabak sa Tokyo Olympics at 31st Hanoi SEA Games, ayon sa pahayag ni Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) Chief Abraham ‘Bambol’ Tolentino ngayong araw, May 25.

Aniya, “The good news today is that IATF has also approved the vaccination this Friday which will be exclusive for Olympic-bound and SEA Games-bound delegates.”

Dagdag niya, “This will happen on Friday afternoon at the Manila Prince Hotel and everyone is included, from coaches, athletes, officials, media, (and) journalists, everyone bound for Tokyo and SEA Games who are here in Manila.”

Samantala, nakikipag-ugnayan naman sa Quezon City ang grupo ng Information Technology and Business Process Management (IT-BPM) upang mabakunahan sa pamahalaang lungsod ang mahigit 67,000 Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) employees nito.

Sabi pa ni IT & Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) President at CEO Rey E. Untal, "This is the first partnership of its kind and we hope that this will serve as a template for our ongoing efforts with other LGUs. Early access to the vaccine is really top-of-mind for our sector and as such, we are dearly and immensely thankful to the leadership of the Quezon City Government."

Sa ngayon ay patuloy ang vaccination rollout kontra COVID-19 sa ‘Pinas, kung saan kabilang ang economic frontliners sa A4 priority list.