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Filipinos greet the float carrying the country's athletes who participated in the Paris Olympics during the 'Heroes Welcome Parade' around the streets of Manila on August 14, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File

Filipinos greet the float carrying the country's athletes who participated in the Paris Olympics during the 'Heroes Welcome Parade' around the streets of Manila on August 14, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/173002763629220240814-olympics-homecoming-EDITED-9.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Filipinos greet the float carrying the country&#x27;s athletes who participated in the Paris Olympics during the &#x27;Heroes Welcome Parade&#x27; around the streets of Manila on August 14, 2024. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Filipinos greet the float carrying the country&#x27;s athletes who participated in the Paris Olympics during the &#x27;Heroes Welcome Parade&#x27; around the streets of Manila on August 14, 2024. <em>Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span>MANILA -- The president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) on Sunday said Filipino athletes will have enough time to gear up for the 33rd Southeast Asian Games that will be hosted in Thailand in late 2025.</div><p>&quot;There&#x27;s enough time and there are more than enough opportunities,&quot; POC President Abraham &quot;Bambol&quot; Tolentino said during the SEAG Council Federation meeting in Bangkok. </p><p>&quot;Coming off our Olympic success in Paris and with the growing enthusiasm of our national sports association to make their marks in the SEA Games, our national federations and athletes have enough time to prepare and contend in Thailand,&quot; he added.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/8/11/ph-is-best-performing-southeast-asian-nation-in-paris-games-2153">READ: PH is best-performing Southeast Asian nation in Paris Games</a></div><p>The Philippines emerged as the best-performing Southeast Asian country in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris earlier this year, with two gold medals courtesy of Carlos Yulo and a bronze each from boxers Aira Villegas and Nesthy Petecio.</p><p>The 33rd SEA Games will open on December 9 and close on December 20, according to Tolentino. Three cities will serve as hosts: the capital of Bangkok, Chonburi and Songkhla.</p><p>A total of 581 events are programmed for 50 sports and three demonstration sports including tug of war and ultimate.</p><p>According to Tolentino, the goal is for Team Philippines to participate in as many sports as possible.</p><p>&quot;If possible, all sports,&quot; he said.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/2024/9/13/back-to-work-for-poc-after-success-in-paris-1610">READ: Back to work for POC after success in Paris</a></div><p>The Philippines finished as overall champion when it last hosted the biennial games in 2019, but finished fourth and fifth respectively in the last two editions in Vietnam (2022) and Cambodia 2023).</p><p>Tolentino is encouraging  national sports associations to religiously adopt the tried and tested template that produced the country’s first Olympic gold medalist, weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo, in Tokyo 2020 and double gold medalist, gymnast Carlos Yulo, in Paris 2024.</p><p>&quot;As they say, it takes a village, yes, it takes a village to produce champions,&quot; said Tolentino, referring to a squad of coaches—sport, nutrition, strength and conditioning and sports science, medicine and psychology—that helped Diaz-Naranjo and Yulo clinched their places in world sports history.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO: </strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPnYiZv1C1Q?&amp;t=33s&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>The president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) on Sunday said Filipino athletes will have enough time to gear up for the 33rd Southeast Asian Games that will be hosted in Thailand in late 2025.</p>

The president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) on Sunday said Filipino athletes will have enough time to gear up for the 33rd Southeast Asian Games that will be hosted in Thailand in late 2025.

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Published October 28, 2024 05:00 AM PHT

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