Awareness campaign for Asiad-bound Pinoy athletes
The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) will be holding the Walk A Mile event on May 11 as a way to drum up support for Filipino athletes that will be competing in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
PSC Chairman Ricardo Garcia said the activity will also be held simultaneously in other member countries of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to create awareness of the Asian region’s quadrennial sporting event set from September 19 to October 4.
“We want to help [the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC)] create awareness on the staging of the 17th Asian Games in Korea and also to generate support to all our national athletes that will compete in the Asiad,” said Garcia, who is also the country’s Chef de Mission.
“This event will also inform our countrymen to support our serious campaign to win at least six gold medals.”
Four OCA officials and three IAGOC members will be attending the 1.6-kilometer walk from Malate to the Rizal monument in Luneta. Roxas Boulevard’s southbound lane will be closed to traffic during the early-morning Sunday walk.
All Incheon Asiad-bound athletes and coaches, PSC employees, the POC executive board, former national athletes, National Sports Association officials, and differently-abled athletes are expected to join the event.
A total of 437 events in 36 sports disciplines, where more than 400 gold medals will be at stake, will be contested in the 17th Asian Games.
One hundred and 33 national athletes have so far qualified for the Philippine delegation to the Incheon Asiad after passing the criteria set by the joint POC-PSC Asian Games Task Force.
PSC Chairman Ricardo Garcia said the activity will also be held simultaneously in other member countries of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to create awareness of the Asian region’s quadrennial sporting event set from September 19 to October 4.
“We want to help [the Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC)] create awareness on the staging of the 17th Asian Games in Korea and also to generate support to all our national athletes that will compete in the Asiad,” said Garcia, who is also the country’s Chef de Mission.
“This event will also inform our countrymen to support our serious campaign to win at least six gold medals.”
Four OCA officials and three IAGOC members will be attending the 1.6-kilometer walk from Malate to the Rizal monument in Luneta. Roxas Boulevard’s southbound lane will be closed to traffic during the early-morning Sunday walk.
All Incheon Asiad-bound athletes and coaches, PSC employees, the POC executive board, former national athletes, National Sports Association officials, and differently-abled athletes are expected to join the event.
A total of 437 events in 36 sports disciplines, where more than 400 gold medals will be at stake, will be contested in the 17th Asian Games.
One hundred and 33 national athletes have so far qualified for the Philippine delegation to the Incheon Asiad after passing the criteria set by the joint POC-PSC Asian Games Task Force.
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