THE Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF) Review Committee adopted a resolution approving the automatic nomination of Olympic medalists.
PSHOF 2020 Chairperson and Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Chairman William Ramirez, who headed a virtual meeting last Tuesday, supported the inclusion of the “very few” medalists of the country in the Games.
“Achieving a medal from the most prestigious Games in history is something worth recognizing for a lifetime,” Ramirez said. “They deserve it even without the process of someone voluntarily proving it for them.”
Akiko Thomson Guevara, representing the Philippine Olympian Association in the Review Committee, volunteered to produce the names of all the country’s Olympic medalists in the next meeting.
Only 10 Filipinos clinched medals in the Summer Olympics beginning with Teofilo Yldefonso, a breastroker, bagging bronze medals in the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Games.
The PSHOF Review Committee are honoring the Olympic medalists to ensure that they are never forgotten.
Among the members of the committee are Games and Amusements Board Chairman Abraham Mitra, Philippine Olympic Committee Secretary-General Atty. Edwin Gastanes, Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines Secretary-General Atty. Avelino Sumagui and University Athletic Association of the Philippines Executive Director Atty. Rene Saguisag Jr.
Nominations for the Philippine Sports Hall of Fame (PSHOF) 2020 are extended until the end of January 2021.