{"id":137597,"date":"2017-12-09T00:45:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137597"},"modified":"2017-12-09T00:46:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T05:46:40","slug":"ioc-impressed-with-multi-purpose-activity-centers-in-leyte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/09\/ioc-impressed-with-multi-purpose-activity-centers-in-leyte\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC impressed with multi-purpose activity centers in Leyte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_137602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137602\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/International-Olympic-Committee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137602\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/International-Olympic-Committee.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose Cojuangco Jr. (left), IOC representative Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski (second from left), and POC project director Tom Carrasco (right) visit one of the multi-purpose activity centers in Leyte on Wednesday (December 6, 2017). (Photo by Judith Caringal\/PNA)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/International-Olympic-Committee.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/International-Olympic-Committee-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/International-Olympic-Committee-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/International-Olympic-Committee-1024x745.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose Cojuangco Jr. (left), IOC representative Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski (second from left), and POC project director Tom Carrasco (right) visit one of the multi-purpose activity centers in Leyte on Wednesday (December 6, 2017). (Photo by Judith Caringal\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The International Olympic Committee (POC) has commended the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) for building three multi-purpose activity centers in areas affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda in Leyte.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of the three facilities, through Gawad Kalinga, was funded by the USD450,000 donation from the IOC, Olympic Council of Asia, and Olympic Solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Radyo Pilipinas on Thursday, IOC representative to the Philippines Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski said the IOC was impressed with the facilities that would benefit families in Palo, Albuera and Alangalang municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They asked me when I was in Lausanne, they thought we could build just one or two centers. So they were impressed that there are three,&#8221; said Cojuangco, who attended the inauguration of the centers last Wednesday. She was accompanied by her father, POC president Jose Cojuangco Jr., and project director Tom Carrasco.<\/p>\n<p>Carrasco, who also serves as secretary general of the triathlon association, bared plans to conduct clinics and demonstrations of different sports suited for the GK communities next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Na<\/em>-control\u00a0<em>natin ang\u00a0<\/em>production cost,\u00a0<em>pinag-uusapan na ang tungkol sa<\/em>\u00a0sustainable program,\u00a0<em>yung<\/em>\u00a0clinics, demos\u00a0<em>o anuman na puwedeng makatulong para may ma<\/em>-develop\u00a0<em>mula sa<\/em>\u00a0facilities,<em>\u00a0pati<\/em>\u00a0differently-abled athletes (We were able to control the production cost. We are discussing a sustainable program, such as clinics, demonstrations or anything that would help develop athletes, including differently-abled ones),\u201d said Carrasco.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cojuangco has suggested building a swimming pool in another area in Leyte to discover future national athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The International Olympic Committee (POC) has commended the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) for building three multi-purpose activity centers in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":137602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[37821,11822,37822,37823],"class_list":["post-137597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-international-olympic-committee","tag-leyte","tag-multi-purpose-activity-centers","tag-philippine-olympic-committee","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137597","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=137597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}