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EJ-PATAFA crisis reaches Lausanne

THE Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) will heed a case filed with the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) by athletics president Philip Ella Juico against the POC and world-class pole vaulter Ernest John “EJ” Obiena. But the POC questioned Juico’s filing of the case with the Lausanne-based CAS describing it… ....

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POC to Juico: Where's the integrity, good faith?

MANILA - World-class pole vaulter Ernest John "EJ" Obiena's issue with his national federation was elevated to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), prompting the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) to question the motive of the filing of the case which it described as breaching integrity and putting a damper on a Philippine Senate-led effort to extinguish the crisis through a domestic effort. "So what happened to the truce forged through the Senate? The mediation that both parties-Obiena and the Patafa (Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association) agreed on before our honorable Senators?" POC president Rep. Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino said on Wednesday after the POC Executive Board's special meeting on the CAS case. Philip Ella Juico, president of the Patafa, filed a "statement of appeal" with the Lausanne-based CAS last February 11 with the POC and Obiena as respondents. Juico filed the case four days after the Senate hearing whe ....

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