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    Duterte throws in additional P1M incentive for Asiad gold medalists

    President Duterte gives own additional incentives to Asian Games medal winners
    Sep 5, 2018
    PHOTO: Jerome Ascano

    MEDALISTS in the just-concluded 18th Asian Games are set to receive additional financial incentives from no less than President Duterte.

    The Chief Executive will give P1 million each to the gold medalists, P500,000 to silver, and P200,000 to bronze winners.

    Golfer Yuka Saso stands to receive the biggest financial reward amounting to more than P9 million after winning the gold in the women’s individual play and becoming part of the three-woman team that also bagged the gold.

    Apart from the P1 million bonus from the president, gold winners also stand to get P2 million each from the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) and the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), P1 million from the Siklab Sports Foundation under Dennis Uy, and another P1 million from Philippine ambassador to Indonesia Cesar Lee Hiong Tan Wee.

    After Saso, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz and skateboarder Margie Didal comes next with P7 million each, while the other two members of the women’s team golf Bianca Pagdanganan and Lois Kaye Go get more than P2 million each.

    “The President through the Office of SAP (Special Assistant to the President) Bong Go was motivating me that the President will add P1 million each to the gold medalists,” said PSC chairman William ‘Butch’ Ramirez during the government agency’s post-Asiad press conference on Wednesday.

    Go discussed the matter with President Duterte after he joined Ramirez in welcoming Diaz, Saso and the lady golfers at the NAIA Terminal 2 upon their arrival from Jakarta, Indonesia last week.

    President Duterte will be hosting the PH Asiad delegation at Malacanang on Sept. 12.

    “I also instructed Executive Director (Merly Ibay) to fast track the certification of athletes that are certified coaches para puwedeng isabay na rin ang incentives ng coaches,” said the PSC chairman, who was joined in the proceedings by commissioners Charles Maxi, Celia Kiram, and Arnold Agustin along with Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) chairman Rey Gamboa.

    This developed as Ramirez also urged that Filipino athletes who failed to bring home a medal of any color in the Asiad be given importance, too.

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    While the PSC chief noted that limelight cannot be taken away from all those who won medals, it is imperative too, that the Philippine contingent be recognized as a whole.

    “It’s just normal to appreciate the whole delegation that went there whatever the circumstances and shortcomings,” he said.

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