POC PRESIDENT REP.
ABRAHAM “BAMBOL”
TOLENTINO
Philippine Olympic Committee
(POC) President Abraham
“Bambol” Tolentino shares
the struggles and successes
of being POC President after
the Philippines nabbed four
Olympic medals from the
recent Tokyo Olympics 2020.
BY EDWIN GALVEZ
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MANUEL GENEROSO
The country’s massive celebration of Team Philippines’ four-medal finish at the 2020 Tokyo Games—topped by its first-ever gold medal win after a long 97-year drought— still lingers in the air, and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President and Cavite Representative Abraham “Bambol” Ng Tolentino has barely taken a rest.
The 57-year-old incumbent representative of the 8th District of Cavite—which encompasses his hometown of Tagaytay City and seven other municipalities south of Manila—immediately buckled
down to set the strategies for what promises to be a bigger medal haul for the Philippines in the next Summer Olympics.
“More than one gold is the target,” says Tolentino when asked about the number of golds the country can capture during the quadrennial games in Paris, France in 2024.
Before two-time Olympic medalist Hidilyn Diaz’s gold medal........
