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Day: January 11, 2022

Ramirez vows to resolve PATAFA-Obiena row before term ends

Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Butch Ramirez said he is looking to finally settle the score between the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association and pole vault star Ernest John “EJ” Obiena before he bids goodbye to his post. Ramirez said on Tuesday that he does not want to keep the mediation process hanging once his term ends on June 30. “Our terms end on June 30, 2022. We don’t want to leave PSC with these disputes hanging,” Ramirez told the Philippine Sportswriters Association as it resumed its weekly online forum. Both Obiena and PATAFA have agreed to put an

PSC awaits lower alert level before resuming training

The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is now in waiting mode on when the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) will lower the alert level status in Metro Manila amid a spike in the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. The PSC was supposed to clear the national athletes of training inside its facilities beginning Monday. But training has been deferred with the so-called NCR Plus area, composed of Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, and Cavite, currently under Alert Level 3. “With the present situation, we are evaluating that most probably when the IATF lowers the alert

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