00:00The schedule of the Filipino athletes is full for the next year.
00:03That's why the Philippine Olympic Committee
00:05has given full support to the Filipino athletes.
00:09That's the center of the news of Rafael Bandayrel.
00:14After being crowned again as the leader of the Philippine Olympic Committee,
00:20Abraham Bambol-Tolentino is back to work.
00:24That's because there are so many international competitions
00:28that the Philippines will host under his next term.
00:33In an exclusive interview with the sports banter of PTV Sports,
00:37the POC President laid out the events that should be awaited in the coming years.
00:43These include competitions in 2025
00:46such as Harbin Asian Winter Games and Asian Youth Games held in China,
00:52as well as the Olympic Esports Series in Saudi Arabia,
00:56Southeast Asian Games in Thailand,
00:58and the possible expansion of the postponed Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games or IMAG in Saudi Arabia.
01:05By January, let's roll our sleeves and first start the business.
01:11Focus on those international competitions.
01:15In 2026, the country's delegates will also compete in the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics in Italy
01:22and the 20th Asian Games that will be held in Nagoya, Japan.
01:26Tolentino promised the leaders of the national sports associations
01:31that he will take care of the trust given to him as the leader of the POC.
01:37Sustain what we are doing and we will improve because we learned a lot of lessons.
01:49We went through a lot of challenges.
01:53Not only Olympics but all the international competitions.
