No gold medal ever. Last medal was a silver in boxing in 1996. The rest was another silver and 7 bronze. The Philippines now holds the record for the most number of medal
s with not a single gold among them. Why is the country performing dismally in the Summer Olympics?1 Parents: Are you kidding me, son? Your mother’s a doctor, your father’s a lawyer, and you want to be an athlete!
The first hurdle facing the Philippines in producing quality athletes is the nation’s paradigm. Like entrepreneurs, artists and writers, would-be athletes are not encouraged to pursue their stuff. The community approves if they take up nursing, accountancy or other white-collar jobs — but sports? Is that even a job?
In situations like this, it behooves the government to step in. But as you’ll see in the next section, the Philippine government fails to encourage the youth to pursue sports.
Egg as in zero, cluck-cluck.
2 Students: Where do we play? Ooh, ooh, in the sports complex — if you can call it a sports complex.
It’s understandable: There’s a shortage of classrooms, chairs and textbooks, so you don’t fuss over inadequate or absent sports complex. However, it’s not just about the facility; it’s about the system too. The public school fails to incorporate sports into the student life, the way it fluffs on other interests, like arts and science. Do schools have their volleyball team, their badminton team, their gymnastic team? Are there clubs of the sort? Do they play regularly? Probably not happening.
And while such sport teams are organized during inter-school competitions, from municipal to the National Games, this has little bearing on who goes to the Olympics.
More eggs in fact, cluck-cluck.
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3 Coach: My team is a sure win. Let’s see if our friend in the Committee would back us up.
Selection of athletes to compete in the Olympics is an even more dubious arena. Sports are not spared from politics. There are international qualifiers that determine a country’s representatives to the Olympics, but other than that, it’s the discretion of the Philippine Olympic Committee to choose which athletes to represent the country. You’d hope there are actual national competitions to sift the country’s best athletes too, like the National Games, but it’s pretty much who is whose bet, or beneficiary, a lot of the time. As a result, players with the connection get through, while humble athletes who could potentially win the country its first gold are left out of the roster.
How 'bout pink eggs for a change, cluck-cluck?
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4 Athlete: My girl’s pregnant with our baby. No can’t play anymore.
In the Philippines sports are not lucrative for the most part. Most Olympic sports don’t enjoy the pays and glamour of national basketball (PBA) to cite an example. Private associations and the government would need to organize events and tournaments that offer big enough prizes and glamorous trophies, which can tell potential athletes, hey, you can build a career here. As of the moment, however, that’s not happening. Hence, promising athletes stay out of sports, because they don’t want themselves or their family to starve and stay impoverished.
And the vicious cycle goes on.
Then were back to reason # 1. Why be an athlete, son? You’re just going to starve. And you plan to marry the girl of your dream? How’d you think you’d manage to feed my grandson by shoving a black ball and knocking stubby little toys with it? Stick to accountancy, okay? Be a professional, like me and your mom. I heard Singapore pays big for a business expert. You’d reap cash like you never would playing bowling or whatever sports.
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