Sendoff for SEA Games athletes set

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MANILA – Philippine delegates to the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will be given a sendoff party on Thursday.
Aimed at boosting their morale as they match skills against nine other Southeast Asian countries, the pre-dusk event will be a fitting salute to the around 495 battle-tested national and developmental Filipino athletes.
Philippine Sports Commission chairman William “Butch” Ramirez, who will represent President Rodrigo Duterte, will lead the activity at the CITEM building in Pasay City.
Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose “Peping” Cojuangco Jr. and Cynthia Carreon, president of the local gymnastics federation and the Philippine delegation chef-de-mission, will attend, too.
“Buong Bansa, Pugay Kamay Sa’yo, Atletang Pilipino. Kampeon ka sa Bilis, Gilas at Galing,” is the sendoff’s theme.
The Philippines will participate in 41 events in 37 sports disciplines out of the 38 calendared by Kuala Lumpur, which hosts the biennial meet for the sixth time.
A tough challenge awaits the Filipino athletes, who will try to surpass its 29-36-66 gold-silver-bronze medal haul to finish sixth overall in the 2015 SEA Games in Singapore.
The Philippines first joined the regional sports meet in 1977 and won the overall championship in 2005 – or 28 years later.
Also, the Philippines hosted the SEA Games in 1981, and then in 1991 after two natural calamities – the Mount Pinatubo eruption that year and the “killer earthquake” on July 16 the year before. (PNA)
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