December 29, 2021 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Greater than medals, the Philippine Swimming, Inc. (PSI) is concentrated on incomes factors from the Worldwide Swimming Federation (FINA) to qualify its swimmers to the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“By way of targets, we will’t actually specify any explicit variety of medals as this has by no means been a purpose for us,” stated PSI president Lailani Velasco. “Our efficiency can finally be gauged based mostly on the FINA factors that our swimmers set up.
“We hope our athletes can proceed to attain increased FINA factors as we had the final yr,” she added.
Velasco was referring to Luke Gebbie and Treatment Rule, who each earned sufficient FINA factors to qualify to final August’s Tokyo Olympics.
And she or he is bent on taking the identical path.
“This may give us an indicator that we’re on track as we transfer nearer to the subsequent Olympics in 2024,” stated Velasco.
In fact, the nation can be out to enhance on a one-gold, six-silver and nine-bronze efficiency within the 2019 SEA Video games on the New Clark Metropolis Aquatics Middle in Capas, Tarlac.
“We have now a busy calendar for 2022, which incorporates the thirty first SEA Video games in Vietnam, the nineteenth FINA World Championships in Japan and the nineteenth Asian Video games in China and we hope to ship our greatest athletes to those competitions,” stated Velasco.
