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Thursday, February 23, 2006
Peping: No rift with Robert
MANILA – Philippine Oympic Committee president Jose Cojuangco yesterday denied reports of a feud between him and chairman Robert Aventajado.
Cojuangco said that “all’s well in the POC” and it was just matter of differences in opinion between him and Aventajado, his close ally, who served as his trusted man in the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee.
“There were just differences in opinion between Robert and me because this is not dictatorship,” said Cojuangco after the POC executive board meeting yesterday in Makati City.
Cojuangco said the executive board accepted the resignation of Aventajado as chairman of the POC and he will be replaced by former Rizal congressman and POC legal councel Ding Tanjuatco.
“Ding will be assisted by swimming head Mark Joseph,” said Cojuangco.
The country’s Olympic czar also said that the POC board has approved a resolution asking the First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo to reconsider his earlier decision to withdraw support from Team Philippines, which will see action in the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar in December.
POC secretary-general Steve Hontiveros also said they are eyeing the husband of Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be the RP delegation chief of mission to the forthcoming Asiad.
Also being considered to the position of COM are track-and-field president Go Teng-Kok, sepak-takraw’s Mario Tanchangco, Aventajado and Moying Martelino.
Meanwhile, Cojuangco reiterated that the name of the expelled Basketball Association of the Philippines can be reinstated as regular member of the POC.
“Only the name BAP can be reinstated. But its officials are new with a new constitution-and-by-laws,” said Cojuangco in the presence of Avetajado, who was the most vocal in the issue of the BAP reinstatement.
Cojuangco appointed Aventajado last year to take head the one-man committee tasked to form a new basketball organization, which may replace the BAP in the POC roster. (FCC)
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