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Olympic bets remain PSC’s priority in sports comeback

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MANILA - The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) emphasized the need of Olympic qualifiers to resume their training during the PSC-GAB- DOH Stakeholde­rs’ Virtual Meeting hosted by the Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday.

PSC officer-in-charge Ramon Fernandez and National Training Director Marc Velasco represente­d the sports agency in the discussion for the Joint Administra­tive Order Guidelines on the Conduct of HealthEnha­ncing Physical Activities and Sports during the Covid-19

Pandemic.

In the meeting participat­ed in by Games and Amusements Board (GAB) Chairman Baham Mitra, sports leaders of the Department of Education, profession­al sports league, colleges, and universiti­es, the PSC heads bared their solid plans on resuming the preparatio­ns of Tokyo-bound athletes.

“We are working towards the approval of the training of our national athletes who have earned their slots in the Games. We are hoping it gets the go-signal from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) first,” Fernandez said.

“The PSC discussed this with the POC (Philippine Olympic Committee). We still have to sit down with the PPC (Philippine Paralympic Committee). The POC will determine through their NSAs (National Sports Associatio­ns) who are coming for the Olympic slots and they will be the ones to return first or if possible, we can have them in a bubble,” explained Velasco. He added that the PSC has to work with the POC, NSAs, and the team of Dr. Randy Molo of the PSC’s Medical Scientific Athlete Services (MSAS) in looking into the guidelines and the protocols so “we can all have a good guide for the return to training. We’re preparing the venues as well.”

We are working towards the approval of the training of our national athletes who have earned their slots in the Games. We are hoping it gets the go-signal from the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) first. RAMON FERNANDEZ PSC OIC

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