26 NSAs snub POC evaluation meet
PHILIPPINE Olympic Committee president Jose Cojuangco Jr. was left disappointed when only 16 out of the 42 national sports associations that sent athletes to the recent 26th Indonesia Southeast Asian Games showed up for an assessment meeting with the POC last Tuesday.
"This was what I was afraid of when POC secretary-general Steve Hontiveros called for the meeting with the NSAs, and this is exactly what happened," Gymnastics Association of the Philippines secretary-general Bettina Pou, who attended the affair, quoted Cojuangco as saying.
Aside from gymnastics, which claimed it had produced one bronze in the meet although this has yet to be reflected in the official standings of the 26th SEA Games website, also represented were archery, basketball, bowling, cycling, chess, equestrian, golf, canoeing/dragon boat, fencing, judo, billiards and snooker, rowing, wrestling and wushu.
Among the prominent no-shows were athletics, swimming and shooting, medal-rich events in the regional sports showcase, but ended up as big flops in Indonesia.
Promising at least six gold medals, athletics finished with just two while swimming and shooting had none.
In all, Filipino campaigners ended up with a 36-56-77 gold-silver-bronze tally, good for sixth overall, the country’s worst finish in the games that started in 1977.- http://www.malaya.com.ph/
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