{"id":276285,"date":"2020-11-22T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=276285"},"modified":"2020-11-22T08:31:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T13:31:56","slug":"psc-to-aid-athletes-coaches-hit-hard-by-successive-typhoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/22\/psc-to-aid-athletes-coaches-hit-hard-by-successive-typhoons\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC to aid athletes, coaches hit hard by successive typhoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_276286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276286\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/960px-PSCjf9758_07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276286\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/960px-PSCjf9758_07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/960px-PSCjf9758_07.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/960px-PSCjf9758_07-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/960px-PSCjf9758_07-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Philippine Sports Commission building (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=27383286\">Photo by Ramon FVelasquez\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is preparing the release of financial assistance to members of the national team badly-hit by consecutive typhoons.<\/p>\n<p>The sports agency received reports that 57 athletes and coaches from nine sports were evacuated due to massive flooding brought about by Typhoon Ulysses in Metro Manila and nearby areas.<\/p>\n<p>It coordinated with national sports associations (NSAs) to get to know who has been adversely affected.<\/p>\n<p>PSC chairman William Ramirez assured that the agency is monitoring typhoon-ravaged members of the Philippine national team and is expediting the release the financial assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might not be substantial but we will do our best we can to help them,\u201d Ramirez said in a news release on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>PSC Executive Director lawyer Guillermo Iroy Jr. said once final report has been submitted by the NSAs, assistance will be sent to the affected athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have this rolled out the soonest. We are just waiting for the final report from the NSA affairs so we can finalize everything,\u201d Iroy said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the affected national athletes and coaches are from the Philippine Canoe-Kayak Dragonboat Federation residing near floodways in Rizal.\u00a0<em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) is preparing the release of financial assistance to members of the national team badly-hit &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":276286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276285","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=276285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276287,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276285\/revisions\/276287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}