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By Emil Noguera, Correspondent
THE Southeast Asian Games Task Force approved on Friday the
inclusion of 13 more athletes in the RP delegation going to the 24th
Southeast Asian Games in Thailand this December.
Task Force co-chairman Richie
Garcia said six tracksters, four cyclists and three muay thai
fighters successfully passed the qualifying standard of the
oversight committee.
“We now have 530 athletes in
the delegation. But we expect the number to increase because some
national sports associations are scheduled to hold their qualifying
next week,” said Garcia, also a commissioner of the Philippine
Sports Commission.
The six athletes who qualified
for the biennial meet are tracksters Sheena Atilano, Benigno Marayag,
Alex Gabito, Johnnie Vinas, John Rey Barrios and Esmeraldo Pacheco,
cyclists Lloyd Reynante, Ronald Burantes, Julius Bonso and Irish
Valenzuela, and muay fighters Anna Joy Fernandez, Anna Rey and May
Libao.
Athletics will have another
eliminations on September 29 and 30 while weightlifting will conduct
a qualifying tournament on September 28
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