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                    [ArticleID] => 1985004
                    [Title] => Stability in POC
                    [Summary] => Take it from triathlete Nikko Huelgas who just won a second four-year term as member of the Athletes Commission attached to the POC.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-01-15 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 135698
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804869
                    [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson
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                    [ArticleID] => 868094
                    [Title] => No-shows in POC forum
                    [Summary] => 

It was unfortunate that not all the candidates showed up for the first-ever POC election forum at the Audio Visual Room on the ground floor of Building A in the PhilSports Complex last Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135698 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 859976 [Title] => Wanted: Source of unity in POC [Summary] =>

There are 43 qualified voters in the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) elections on Nov. 30 and POC first vice president Manny Lopez, opposing Jose Cojuangco Jr.’s bid for a third straight four-year term as POC president, said yesterday at least 25 are clamoring for a change in leadership.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804869 [AuthorName] => Joaquin M. Henson [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 817192 [Title] => Paddlers brace for 'battle royale' vs Asia's best [Summary] =>

The Philippine dragon boat team feels good about their upcoming races in the third Asian Beach Games here, its mood buoyed after breaking in the competition boat in two practice sessions in Haiyang, China.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 775454 [Title] => IOC confab on life after sports slated [Summary] =>

An initial batch of 25 athletes including Olympian weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz, world taekwondo poomsae champion, Ranie Ann Ortega and Southeast Asian Games titlist John Renee Mier took part in a two-day seminar of the International Olympic Committee Athlete Career Program that highlights the transition of athletes from sports to professional life.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 691003 [Title] => Rule requiring skirts in badminton suspended [Summary] =>

The Badminton World Federation has indefinitely suspended a controversial regulation that would have required women to wear skirts or dresses in competitive matches, a move that many female athletes considered sexist.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-30 10:13:39 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 388365 [Title] => POC, PSC form initial list of bets for SEAG [Summary] => The joint group of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC)-Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) yesterday identified an initial list of 226 individual and team gold medallists of the Manila SEA Games as among those considered for inclusion in the national squad bound for the 24th edition of the meet in Thailand.

The committee came up with the names after reaching a consensus that only the best athletes and coaches will comprise Team Philippines out to defend the overall SEA Games title it won in Manila two years ago.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 288018 [Title] => Pagtatag ng Athletes’ Commission para sa kabutihan ng mga atleta [Summary] => Ang pagpapabuti sa kala-gayan ng mga national athletes ang pangunahing layunin ng bagong tatag na Athletes’ Commission.

Sinabi ng pangulo nitong si national wrestler Marcus Valda na inaasahan nang mabubuo ang mga alituntunin at pata-karan ng Athletes Commission sa mga susunod na araw.

"This commission is really new and the ground has not completely laid out yet," sabi ng 2003 Vietnam Southeast Asian Games double-gold medal winner. "But we’re confident that these things will be taken cared of soon."
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 109842 [Title] => Athletes to form bigger union [Summary] => Saying the group that staged a rally in Malacañang Monday against the Philippine Sports Commission and the Philippine Olympic Commitee did not represent the "general will" of national athletes, members of the country’s elite — veteran Olympians and gold medalists in the Asian and Southeast Asian Games — are forming a new association that promises to be bigger in terms of membership.
[DatePublished] => 2001-03-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 108372 [Title] => Golden girl revisited Akiko ideal POC choice for IOC body [Summary] =>

The line was always busy (one would curse the hell out of it), but when the phone finally rang, the voice at the end of the line was soft and sweet: "Hello, this is Akiko Thomson."

Akiko, the many-time Southeast Asian Games pool queen, is now into a lot of things, except swimming.

Over three years after she closed the final chapter of her 10-year-or-so swimming career, Akiko has gone into business, working as executive consultant at the Makati office of an insurance company where her father is one of the founders.

"I'm so busy nowadays," she said, referring to her job pr [DatePublished] => 2000-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1194422 [AuthorName] => by Gerry Carpio [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) ) )

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