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REP. MICHAEL “MIKEE” L. ROMERO, Ph. D.
1-PACMAN Party-list
Assistant Majority Leader
Vice Chair, Committee on Youth & Sports Development                                                       
Twitter: @MikeeRomeroPhD

RENAISSANCE OF POC, PHL SPORTS BEGINS

I congratulate the new Philippine Olympic Committee President Ricky Vargas and POC Chairman Congressman Bambol Tolentino on their historic victory. The renaissance chapter of Philippine sports begins today.
                                     
Expectations are high and rightly so. The next SEA Games and various international championships are in the priority sports calendar. With the Palarong Pambansa and Philippine National Games just weeks away from now, the new POC and the current Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) must make their impact and presence felt.

I expect that with the new leadership relations between the PSC and POC will be much better.

The PSC, POC, and NSAs can anticipate that the House Committee on Youth and Sports Development would be exercising its oversight functions on the subsidies of the PSC for NSAs.

I ask my colleagues on the House Committee on Youth and Sports Development to expedite passage of the pending bills on sports academies and involving the Philippine Sports Commission.

I also take this opportunity to call upon our leading colleges and universities to work with the POC and PSC on the forging of a consortium that will establish the country’s first and progressive Philippine Sports University.

The PSU can be a private-public partnership institution to serve as the apex of Filipino human resource development sports because we need a massive investment in masteral and doctoral studies on the sports sciences and arts.

Under the Philippine Sports University could be strategically-located sports academies, including the ones my colleagues in Congress are proposing, among them, the Southern Leyte Sports Academy sought by Representative Roger Mercado of Southern Leyte. (END)

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