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Davao del Norte relentless in sports program

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DAVAO del Norte continued to harness its sports programs from the time the province hosted the Palarong Pambansa in 2015 and focused on the relentless training of athletes, coaches and technical officials on a broader spectrum.

“We were dubbed as the ‘Best Palaro Ever,’” he said in his speech Davao Del Norte Provincial Sports Coordinator Giovanni Gulanes told the Philippine Sports Commission’s (PSC) online National Sports Summit (NSS) on Thursday.

Gulanes, who served as the first speaker of the NSS that would be staged for 23 more Thursdays, said that after the Palaro, the province was inspired to host multi-sports events of similar magnitude.

“We also hosted the Batang Pinoy National Finals and Indigenous People’s Games Games in 2018,” Gulanes told his audience of 450 participants.

The sprawling Davao Del Norte Sports and Tourism Complex in the capital Tagum City remained well-kept, according to Gulanes, with the provincial government establishing the DavNor Regional Sports Academy modeled after existing academies in Leyte and Pagadian City.

He said Davao Del Norte also promotes a grassroots program through Alternative School Learning System which is designed for students who do not attend regular schools.

The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t spare the province but Gulanes said they managed to focus on their program.

“We are all challenged in this new normal but are still able to focus on our sports program by conducting online training such as school-based sports clinic and  home-based training,” he said said.

Gulanes said that the pandemic is not an excuse for sports to cease.

“We can still conduct competitions online. The pandemic is not a reason why we cannot have competitions,” he said.

The NSS resumes on Thursday with Professor Henry Daut talking about grassroots sports. The series kicked off last Wednesday with Dr. TJ Rosandich, president and CEO of the Unites States Sports Academy, discussing “Sports Success from the First World Perspective.”

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