After long break PH track, field team to train again

After a layoff of 18 months, Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association training director Renato Unso fears that the locally based national athletes face a tough challenge of duplicating their successful campaign at the 30th Philippines Southeast Asian Games when they compete at the 31st Vietnam SEA Games rescheduled next May.

Sprinters Anfernee Lopena and Eloiza Luzon also joined hands with US-based Filipinos Eric Cray and Kristina Knott in ruling the 4x100-meter mixed relay race in the SEA Games trackfest held at the New Clark City Athletic Stadium in Capas town, Tarlac. PATAFA president Philip Ella Juico has vainly tried to resume actual training for the national athletes as far back as October 2020 for approval by the Inter-Agency Task Force overseeing the pandemic, only to be turned down as the virus cases dramatically rose.

Unso said this was why the resumption of training of the national team in Baguio City this week would be pivotal in gauging the actual fitness and conditioning of the local athletes after their prolonged period of inactivity. He added that the athletes and coaches will be arriving separately, “because some of them have not been fully vaccinated so we advised them to get them first before going up to Baguio, while others will be coming from the Visayas and Mindanao.”

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