Philippine Amateur Track and Field Association (PATAFA) President Philip Ella Juico said the Philippine sports system needs a period of consolidation until 2022 to achieve its ultimate aim.

“The realistic balance between mass-based and elite sports (with focus on selected sports) has to be agreed upon or else we will continually be muddling through while our neighbors, heretofore, years behind us, continue to leave us behind,” Juico said in a statement on Monday.

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