497 Athletes Carry Country's Colors in 29th SEA Games in KL
By Eddie Alinea of Spin.ph
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 28 Jun 2017
The hope of extricating the country?s disappointing finishes in the past three staging of the Southeast Asian Games will lie on the shoulders of the 497-athlete strong national contingent that will carry the country?s colors in the coming 29th edition of the biennial conclave set in Kuala Lumpur this August.
Counting the 163 coaches and 17 support staff made up of secretariat and medical groups, etc. the delegation, to be confirmed by the Philippine Olympic Committee in a meeting this Friday, totals 730. The POC will then submit the entries by name to the Malaysian SEA Games Organizing Committee.
Members of the delegation that passed the scrutiny of the SEA Games Task Force, headed by chairman Tom Carrasco of the Triathlon Association of the Philippines and chief de mission Cynthia Carrion of the Gymnastics Association of the Philippines.
The Philippines is seeing action in 37 of 38 sports in this year?s calendar.
Other member of the SEAG Task Force, which met almost daily the past several weeks to pass upon the list, are CDM deputies Dave Cater of judo, Robert Bachmann of squash and Robert Mananquil of billiards and snooker and Ed Carlo Abarquez, Marc Velasco Jonjon Fortaleza, all of the Philippine Sports Commission.
Ms. Carrion had earlier made a projection that the present composition is capable of bringing home 50 gold medals, enough she said, to improve the previous 29 harvest fashioned out by their predecessors two years ago in Singapore where the Philippines ended up a dismal sixth place overall while taking part in 35 sports.
That sixth place finish was a duplication of the same wind up the 2017 contingent came up in 2013. The Philippines was at its worst in 2011 when if went home seventh.
She and Carrasco, however, came up with a more credible 30-35 gold medal haul enough, too, to surpass the 2015 production. Both refused to divulge the names of those who made the list pending final decision of the POC, admitting though that several of the 2015 gold medalists look to repeat.
They are, among others, world-ranked Dennis Orcullo in billiards, Claire Adorna in triathlon, Kiyomi Watanabe in judo, Eric Shaun Cray in athletics, Reynald Capellan in gymnastics, Marella Salamat in cycling and men?s basketball team.
The men?s and women?s football teams have the most number of entries with 40, followed by athletics with 38, aquatics with 29, men?s and women?s basketball teams with 24, indoor hockey with 22, sepak takraw with 17 and men?s and women?s rugby 7 teams with 24.
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