Comments on: Top Ten: Statements During The 2008 Beijing Olympics/Part #1

By: kingofpots

kingofpots — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:04:08 +0000

jinoe, it is so sad that our sports experts do not know whom our athletes will be competing with. we are weak in our sports research department. what we know are only our neighbor aseans, not even asians! i am still hoping that our taekwando team will make it but the “radar” in olympic medal predictions does not create any “hit” to our team. very sad!

mark, that’s my point! training should be fund-intensive and rewards will come later…funds delayed? “if there’s a will, there’s a way”. our PSC & POC has lots of funds! as i said, none of our “investigative journalists” had ventured on the financial activities and support to our athletes by the PSC & POC & not even one of our olympic athletes had spoken to the media how they are being financially supported by the NSAs, POC, and PSC. based from my instincts/impression, each of the US-based pinoy olympic athletes has an allocation of at least 20K DOLLARS for the 2008 beijing olympics alone…and some of our local pinoy olympic athletes had to dig to their own pockets because of delayed funds? maybe we could ask tanamor or diaz how much did they receive as financial support for their training & expenses at the beijing olympics.

By: markfb

markfb — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:41:56 +0000

Instead of just giving incentives, the POC and its NSAs should ensure that training is adequately funded. Incentives when one gets a medal can be easily sourced thru private channels. The so called mandatory amount given by the government for incentives should just be used for training. Not months before but at least 4 years before the next event. Of course, all that money should be properly spent.

I was surprised to find out that our lone archery athlete had to pay for his own when he competed in the olympic qualifiers in china. It was due to the funds getting delayed. How much does it cost to send one athlete to china and compete?

By: jinoe

jinoe — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 05:22:32 +0000

So far the performance is dissappointing and the POC like to sugar coat them with records not yet worthy for an Olympic medal. I saw that boxing match live and it was heartbreaking. All hype about our delegate but came out looking unexperienced. Im keeping my fingers crossed on the Taekwondo athletes.