PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. will send off members of the Paris Olympics-bound Team Philippines this Friday night at the Marble Hall of the Ayuntamiento de Manila in Intramuros.
The President has conveyed his passion and enthusiasm on the Filipino athletes’ participation in the most important global sporting event that will happen during his administration.
Expected to join Marcos in the ceremony managed by official Philippine Olympics broadcaster Cignal TV are Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, Philippine Olympic Committee president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino and members of the POC board, Filipino athletes to the Paris Games and members of the Philippine Sports Commission led by chairman Richard “Dickie” Bachmann and national sports association officials.
Philippine Olympian Association head Gillian Akiko Thomson-Guevara will also grace the ceremony being staged on the eve of the departure of several members to their pre-Olympics training facility in Metz, France, where they will conduct their final preparations for the July 26 to Aug. 11 Games that Paris is hosting for the second time in a century.
A Holy Mass will usher in the ceremony which will be highlighted by the turnover of the country’s colors from the PSC to Marcos and to Tolentino that will also be witnessed by Cignal TV and MediaQuest president and CEO Jane Basas and Cignal TV First Vice President and Head Channel Management and Programming Sienna Olaso.
Tolentino will also present to Marcos the official training and competition apparel from Peak and adidas, while Team Philippines sponsors Cignal TV, Smart, adidas, Peak, celebrated designer Francis Libiran, Samsung, Aice, Delsey, Les Arenes Metz and Olympic Solidarity will be acknowledged.
