Despite the raging COVID-19 health crisis, the government will not hold back from throwing all-out support to national athletes who have grand dreams of seeing themselves in the Tokyo Olympics.
Last year alone, the Philippine Sports Commission released over half-a-billion pesos in government funding for the 62 national sports associations under the Philippine Olympic Committee.
In a document obtained by the Inquirer, Olympic sports got the lion’s share of the P523 million the sports agency disbursed to these NSAs in 2020, even though the country’s economy plunged into recession.
These NSAs, which are all private and autonomous in nature, likewise got a humongous financial al…
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