MIKEE COJUANGCO-JAWORSKI’S election to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board underlines the Philippines’s coveted niche in the world sports map.
But according to Cojuangco-Jaworski, her appointment to the powerful POC body doesn’t equate to the country being accorded a “special treatment” by the movement.
“No additional support from the IOC,” Cojuangco-Jaworski told a radio interview on Thursday.
“That’s what we reiterate, I’m the IOC representative to the Philippines, not the Philippine representative to the IOC,” she said. “My responsibility is global.”
Altough her ascent to the IOC ladder meant a lot to the local sports community, Cojuangco-Jaworksi said it doesn’t relate to a greener pasture at all.
Cojuangco-Jaworski said her election to the Executive Board meant more responsibilities—she chairs the IOC’s education commission with a direct hand in the Olympic channel and she is a member of the Tokyo Olympics Working Group and the 2024 Paris Coordination Commission.
“I must show them that their votes will not go to waste,” Cojuangco-Jaworski said. “More work to come.”
Cojuangco-Jaworski, 46, won the country’s lone gold medal in the 2002 Busan Asian Games.