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 objectives, we are able to’t actually specify any specific variety of medals as this has by no means been a objective for us,” mentioned 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 realize increased FINA factors as we had the final 12 months,” 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 he or she is bent on taking the identical path.
“This may give us an indicator that we’re not off course as we transfer nearer to the following Olympics in 2024,” mentioned Velasco.
In fact, the nation shall 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 Heart in Capas, Tarlac.
“We’ve 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,” mentioned Velasco.
