POC chief encourages Miller to give his ‘best shot’ – Tempo – The Nation’s Fastest Growing Newspaper

YANQING, China — Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Rep. Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino met face-to-face with alpine skier Asa Miller on Wednesday and inspired the nation’s lone consultant within the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics to present it his greatest shot.

Regardless of a world-class subject, Tolentino is hoping the 21-year-old Miller might pull off the inconceivable activity and be part of the ranks of Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz and firm.

“Bear in mind what I gave our Olympic medalists — the gold, the silver and the bronze? I gave them a home and lot every in Tagaytay. Get one,” Tolentino informed Miller throughout a gathering with the members of Group Philippines on the Nationwide Alpine Snowboarding Centre atop Xiaohaituo Mountain.

“The gold medalist [Diaz] acquired greater than one million {dollars},” stated Tolentino,

The Portland (Oregon)-based Miller humbly responded to Tolentino’s problem.

“I’ll do my greatest … there are many greatest skiers on the market. It takes time, I’ve to construct and take the method,” stated Miller, who thanked Tolentino and the Philippine Sports activities Fee for supporting his marketing campaign.    

POC chief authorized counsel Billy Sumagui accompanied Tolentino. They had been joined by Chef de Mission Bones Floro, Athletes Welfare Officer Joebert Yu and Philippine Snowboarding and Ski Federation President Jim Apelar in assembly Miller.

The Winter Olympics begin on Friday with Miller hitting the slopes for the lads’s large slalom on February 13 and the slalom three days later.

Tolentino, in the meantime, stated that he’ll discover the event of winter sports activities in years to come back.  

“It’s actually an honor to have Asa right here to symbolize our nation, it is a very costly sport, you need to pay for every little thing—the gear, together with the gondola,” Tolentino stated. “We’ll discover the Winter Video games sports activities and we are going to attempt to discover extra Filipino abilities.”

The Philippines has been constant in qualifying athletes a minimum of within the final three Winter Olympics though determine skater Michael Martinez missed the Beijing version after Sochi 2014 the place he was the primary Southeast Asian to vie within the occasion and the Pyeongchang 2018.

Within the Tokyo Video games final 12 months, the Philippines received its first Olympic gold medal with Diaz topping the ladies’s -55 kg in weightlifting and boxers Carlo Paalam and Nesthy Petecio clinching silver medals and Eumir Felix Marcial bagging a bronze.