{"id":217580,"date":"2019-06-05T09:47:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=217580"},"modified":"2019-06-05T09:47:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:47:36","slug":"ramirez-insists-psc-has-been-very-supportive-of-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/05\/ramirez-insists-psc-has-been-very-supportive-of-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramirez insists PSC &#8220;has been very supportive&#8221; of Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_217581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217581\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hidilyn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217581\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hidilyn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hidilyn.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/hidilyn-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OLYMPIC GOLD HOPEFUL. Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz seeks government support to fully train in her bid to possibly snatch the Philippines&#8217; first Olympic gold medal in Tokyo next year. Diaz won a silver medal, the country&#8217;s first silver in 20 years, in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. (File photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Philippine Sports Commission chairman Butch Ramirez on Tuesday clarified that the government&#8217;s sports arm has yet to miss on its commitment to Rio Olympics silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>This after Diaz took to Instagram a call to support her bid in the next Olympiad in Tokyo next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has been very supportive,\u201d Ramirez said.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz said on her social media handle that she needs financial support, even saying, &#8220;Try ko kapalan mukha ko para sa minimithi kong pangarap para sa ating bansa na maiuwi ang Gold Medal sa Olympics. (I will not be ashamed so that I achieve my dream to bring home Olympic gold medal).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But according to Ramirez, she is among the highest paid national athletes as far as allowances are concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The PSC bared that it already spent PHP4.5 million for her China training and has also given a lot to Chinese coach Gao Kaiwen.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez also said the Philippine Air Force, where Diaz is an enlisted personnel, is supporting her as well as some other private companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think government was remiss of its support to Hidilyn. Despite what it seems, we at the PSC choose to see her for what she is, a champion we will support on her dream to achieve more,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez said he is open for a dialogue with Diaz to finally settle and address her concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Philippine Sports Commission chairman Butch Ramirez on Tuesday clarified that the government&#8217;s sports arm has yet to miss on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":217581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-ivan-stewart-saldajeno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217580","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217582,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217580\/revisions\/217582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}