{"id":55152,"date":"2015-07-10T20:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55152"},"modified":"2015-07-10T20:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T12:01:17","slug":"philippines-to-host-2019-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/10\/philippines-to-host-2019-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines to host 2019 SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55153\" style=\"width: 521px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Richard-Garcia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55153\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Richard-Garcia.png\" alt=\"Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Richie Garcia (Photo from FilAmNation.com\/Albert Garcia)\" width=\"521\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Richard-Garcia.png 521w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Richard-Garcia-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Richie Garcia (Photo from FilAmNation.com\/Albert Garcia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Richie Garcia has officially announced that the Philippines will be hosting the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) first vice president Joey Romasanta has disclosed that their committee had already passed a resolution assuming the responsibility of hosting the said games, and would then relay their decision to the SEA Games Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 SEA Games will be holding its events in facilities in Metro Manila and in nearby provinces. The projected budget, however, remains elusive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard to make a projection (budget for the Games) because it will happen four years from now\u2026 But we have a general idea as to how much it will cost because we are not going to build any large infrastructure,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore, this year\u2019s SEA Games host, has spent roughly $240 million. Malaysia, the 2017 SEA Games host, is likely to allot $180 million to $220 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as cost is concerned, I don\u2019t think the [Philippine\u2019s] amount will be that big,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to maximize the use of existing facilities that we also used in the 2005 Games here, plus we will approach the [management of] Mall of Asia and Iglesia [Ni Cristo] for their facilities\u2026 [and] we\u2019ll use Subic (Freeport) for watersports,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Mall of Asia (MOA), owned and developed by the SM Prime Holdings, has an indoor arena with a full house seating capacity of 20,000 and an exhibition and convention center which can fit approximately 6,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Iglesia Ni Cristo\u2019s Philippine Arena, on the other hand, is also an indoor arena with a maximum capacity of 55,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Both venues are said to be capable of holding various sports events in the 2019 SEA Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) chairman Richie Garcia has officially announced that the Philippines will be hosting the 2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":55153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-55152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55152","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=55152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}