The Athletes' Incentives Law has the primal intention of providing incentives to the national pool of athletes winning medals in international sporting events from the Southeast Asia, Asian to World Olympics level.
The main thrust of the law is to recognize not only the degree of achievements of our athletes but more so the hard work and dedications they have exerted for the country’s prestigious landing in the international sporting map.
The noble purpose of such law however, missed to recognize the equally relevant feat of differently-abled Filipino national athletes who have also been reaping glory for the country in international sporting tours. Unknown to many, our differently-abled athletes have been contributing their share of delivering honors to the Philippines through their competitive participation in the ASEAN Para Games which is the equivalent of the SEA Games, FESPIC Games which is the parallel of the Asian Games, and the elite Paralympic Games which is the highest international sporting event for athletes with disabilities being held simultaneously with the World Olympics.
By including in the coverage of the law our paralympians who have likewise represented our nation with pride, will depict no distinction in awarding the honors delivered to the country by the regular members of the national athletes and national athletes with disabilities thus, they will feel exalted as part of the country's sports heroes.
Moreover, the law should likewise be expanded to add in the incentives already enjoyed by the athletic achievers other non-monetary benefits like health insurance and lifetime pension to retiring gold medal achievers.
The amendments as proposed, will make our athletes feel, regardless of their physical traits, the importance of the pride and glory they earned for the country everytime they successfully carry with them the colors of our nation.
We all know that inspite of the pride and glory our sports heroes are providing every Filipino, they remain to be amongst the deprived sector of our society in view of the fact that only a meager amount has been allotted by the government annually to support the trainings, development and conditions of the athletes tasked to represent our nation in various international sporting events.
The 25th edition of the Southeast Asian Games in Laos is fast approaching and augmenting the incentives program for the athletes is very timely to inspire our delegation to win the elusive over-all championship medal for the country.
The main thrust of the law is to recognize not only the degree of achievements of our athletes but more so the hard work and dedications they have exerted for the country’s prestigious landing in the international sporting map.
The noble purpose of such law however, missed to recognize the equally relevant feat of differently-abled Filipino national athletes who have also been reaping glory for the country in international sporting tours. Unknown to many, our differently-abled athletes have been contributing their share of delivering honors to the Philippines through their competitive participation in the ASEAN Para Games which is the equivalent of the SEA Games, FESPIC Games which is the parallel of the Asian Games, and the elite Paralympic Games which is the highest international sporting event for athletes with disabilities being held simultaneously with the World Olympics.
By including in the coverage of the law our paralympians who have likewise represented our nation with pride, will depict no distinction in awarding the honors delivered to the country by the regular members of the national athletes and national athletes with disabilities thus, they will feel exalted as part of the country's sports heroes.
Moreover, the law should likewise be expanded to add in the incentives already enjoyed by the athletic achievers other non-monetary benefits like health insurance and lifetime pension to retiring gold medal achievers.
The amendments as proposed, will make our athletes feel, regardless of their physical traits, the importance of the pride and glory they earned for the country everytime they successfully carry with them the colors of our nation.
We all know that inspite of the pride and glory our sports heroes are providing every Filipino, they remain to be amongst the deprived sector of our society in view of the fact that only a meager amount has been allotted by the government annually to support the trainings, development and conditions of the athletes tasked to represent our nation in various international sporting events.
The 25th edition of the Southeast Asian Games in Laos is fast approaching and augmenting the incentives program for the athletes is very timely to inspire our delegation to win the elusive over-all championship medal for the country.
Are there a lot of athletes na ba sa atin that can possibly benefit from this?
ReplyDeleteYes Janet. Almost every year the Philippine Paralympics Society with hundreds of athletes under its pool has been sending delegation to international para games from South east Asian level upto the World events. And we have been delivering quite well.
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