POC needs new leader, not cheap talk of Games success

With only five months to go before the 2019 SEA Games formally unfolds in Manila and various cities in the country from November 30 to December 11, national preparations for the games have been hit by an almost irreparable blow.

Ricky Vargas, president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and, perhaps, the single most important member of the management committee for the games, has tendered his irrevocable resignation as POC president following a major dust-up with the committee’s executive board.