Juico tatakbong vice-president sa Asian Athletics elections

MANILA, Philippines - Para maipatupad ang kanyang mga panukala ay tatakbo si Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association president Philip Ella Juico para sa vice presidency ng Asian Athletics Association.

Maluwag naman itong tinanggap ni AAA Secretary General Maurice Nicholas, miyembro ng asosasyon sapul noong 1973 na nagkukumpirma sa pagiging pangulo ni Juico sa local athletics association.

“I will push for the AAA’s support for the creation of the ASEAN Athletics Integration, which mimics the ASEAN Economic Integration using the ASEAN as one athletic development platform with each country assigned a specific role to play like championing and/or being the center of excellence for a particular athletics event/discipline,” sabi ni Juico, nagpanukala nito noong Nobyembre sa Singapore nang magpulong ang mga pangulo ng athletics associations sa ASEAN ukol sa malamya nilang ipinakita sa athletics event noong 2014 Asian Games sa Incheon, Korea.

Balak ding palakasin ni Juico, dating cabinet member (Agrarian Reform) ng Cory Aquino administration, ang ‘Kids Athletics’ program.

“I will also bat for the further strengthening of the ‘Kids in Athletics’ program by working closely, in the Philippines, with the Department of Education,” ani Juico. “I will also totally support the emerging concept of ‘Street Athletics’ which promotes the sport of athletics among ordinary lay persons by converting ordinary roads and tho-roughfares for brief specific times in the city into mini-tracks and ovals.