{"id":110268,"date":"2017-08-07T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=110268"},"modified":"2017-08-07T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T01:48:21","slug":"filipino-sports-warriors-ready-for-2017-seag-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/07\/filipino-sports-warriors-ready-for-2017-seag-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino sports \u201cwarriors\u201d ready for 2017 SEAG battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110274\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110274\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cBuong Bansa, Pugay Kamay Sa \u2018yo Atletang Pilipino.Kampeon Ka sa Bilis, Gilas at Galing,&quot; will mark the theme\u2019s event. (PNA PHOTO)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cBuong Bansa, Pugay Kamay Sa \u2018yo Atletang Pilipino.Kampeon Ka sa Bilis, Gilas at Galing,&#8221; will mark the theme\u2019s event. (PNA PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, August 7\u2014 A fitting salute to our Filipino warriors bound for the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n<p>On August 10 before dusk, some 495 battle-tested national and developmental athletes will be given a send-off party aimed at\u00a0 boosting their morale and confidence in matching skills against the athletes from nine other ASEAN countries.<\/p>\n<p>Top officials led by Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman William \u201cButch\u201d Ramirez, who will represent President Rodrigo Roa Duterte; Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Jose \u201cPeping\u201d Cojuangco Jr; and Cynthia Carreon, president of the local gymnastics federation and the Philippine delegation Chef-de-mission; will lead the momentous activity to be held at the CITEM building in Pasay City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuong Bansa, Pugay Kamay Sa \u2018yo Atletang Pilipino.Kampeon Ka sa Bilis, Gilas at Galing,&#8221; will mark the theme\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines will be participating in 41 events in 37 sports disciplines out of the 38 calendared by host Kuala Lumpur, which will be hosting the biennial meet for the sixth time.<\/p>\n<p>A tough challenge await the Filipino athletes, who will try to surpass the 29-36-66 (gold-silver-bronze) medal haul to finish 6th overall \u00a0in the\u00a0 2015 games held in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the Philippines joined the regional sports meet in 1977\u00a0and the Filipino athletes&#8217; sacrifices finally bore fruit \u00a0by winning the overall championship in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>It first hosted\u00a0 the biennial meet in 1981 \u00a0and then in 1991 despite the two natural calamities &#8212; Mt Pinatubo eruption and the July 16 (1990) \u201ckiller\u201d quake &#8212; wherein sports became one of\u00a0 the unifying\u00a0 factors in the Filipino&#8217;s resiliency.<\/p>\n<p>In this year\u2019s\u00a0 Southeast Asian Games, sports again hopes to inspire the Filipino spirit of\u00a0 togetherness amid\u00a0 challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, August 7\u2014 A fitting salute to our Filipino warriors bound for the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) in Kuala &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":110274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95,44],"tags":[20599,20600,20298],"class_list":["post-110268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","category-sports","tag-29th-southeast-asian-games-seag","tag-chairman-william-butch-ramirez","tag-philippine-sports-commission-psc","mauthors-primo-agatep","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}