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Friday, July 01, 2005
33 NSAs vote to expel RP basketball body from POC
By Frank C. Calapre
Sun.Star Correspondent
MANILA– The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) yesterday withdrew recognition of the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP).
It marked the first time that the Olympic body expelled a National Sports Association (NSA) since 1919 when it was then called Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation with Manuel Luis Quezon as president.
An overwhelming 33 POC members voted for BAP’s expulsion, while only two opposed during its special general assembly meeting at the Milky Way in Makati City. One abstained and two were absent.
The expulsion of the 66-year-old amateur basketball body from its ranks gives the newly-formed Philippine Basketball Federation Inc. the chance to take its place in the country’s Olympic organization.
The expulsion came barely a month after the umbrella organization of the 37 national sports associations suspended the BAP, established in 1990 with late senator Ambrosio Padilla as first president.
POC president Jose Cojuangco said he is not happy with the result, but it was a task they had to do for the good of the sport in the country.
“I’m not happy with something like this. But we have to do it,” said Cojuangco, the president of the Equestrian Association of the Philippines.
Not even the six-minute appeal of former senator and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) head Joey Lina, who is now the BAP president, before the august body changed the mind of the NSA heads.
Only cycling, headed by Lina’s younger brother Bert, and baseball of Hector Navasero voted against the expulsion, with badminton of former first lady Ming Ramos abstaining. Archery of Ramon Lim and Tom Carrasco’s triathlon were absent.
“It seems that after the suspension their mind is already set for the expulsion,” said Lina after the voting.
(July 1, 2005 issue)
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