Local boxers headline pro card
SEA Games medalists waiting for incentives
Severino joining Para Games

SEA Games medalists
waiting for incentive
BY CEDELF TUPAS

Asian women's boxing champion Mitchel Martinez yesterday said she and other Southeast Asian Games medalists from Negros Occidental have yet to receive their incentives promised to them by the Provincial Government.

“My fellow athletes have been asking me about the incentives. We lament that we are not even recognized,” the Bago City-born Martinez , a SEA Games silver medalist, who was among four athletes who paid a courtesy call at the Capitol last week, said in a text message.

Martinez said they could not help but feel envy hearing stories about athletes getting VIP treatment by their local government units in other parts of the country.

Severino joining Para Games
BY CEDELF TUPAS

FIDE Master Sander Severino of Silay City will spearhead the Philippine contingent when it vies in the ASEAN Paralympics from Jan. 20-26 in Nakhon Ratchasima , Thailand .

The 22-year-old Severino, who is paraplegic, bagged three individual golds and two team titles during the 3 rd Para Games in Manila in December 2005.

Eric Villanueva of Bacolod City is also part of the RP contingent. Villanueva, a silver medalist in the Vietnam Games in 2003, will compete in swimming.*CPT

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