MANILA: Cambodia SEA Games double-bronze medalist Ronald Oranza will lead the more than 400 bikers in this year’s PhilCycling National Championships for Road, set to kick off Monday in Tagaytay City.
The riders are taking part in the criterium, individual time trial (ITT) and road races during the five-day event organized annually by PhilCycling president and Philippine Olympic Committee chair Abraham ‘Bambol” Tolentino.
Other cyclists to watch in the tournament are Maura de los Reyes (women elite category) and Kim Bonilla (women junior class).
Medalists will be top contenders in the national road cycling team for the next two years, primarily for the Thailand 2025 Southeast Asian Games.
The criterium events around a 2.1-km circuit at the Tagaytay City Atrium are scheduled on Monday, followed by the ITT competitions on Tuesday in Tuy and Nasugbu towns in Batangas province.
The road races in men and women junior, under-23 and elite categories will be held from Wednesday to Friday.
Winners will receive pr
estigious national champion’s jersey on top of gold, silver and bronze medals.
The Philippine National Police-Tagaytay City, Cavite, Batangas and local government units are supporting the tournament.
The event is presented by Standard Insurance and the MVP Sports Foundation.
Source: Philippines News Agency
Can Tho: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presented gifts to encourage the forces who are on duty during the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Visiting and delivering his Tet wishes to workers of the Can Tho Urban Joint Stock Company, PM Chinh highly appreciated the spirit of solidarity, hard work, efforts and achievements of more than 450 officials and workers of the company in recent times.
He requested the Party Committee and authorities of Can Tho city and the company to seek ways to improve the material and spiritual lives of its employees, especially families with difficult circumstances, and policy beneficiaries.
The company is working to ensure environmental sanitation in eight out of nine district-level administrative units of the city.
The Government leader also visited and presented Tet gifts to 50 workers who are constructing a 5.16-km Can Tho river embankment.
Stressing the importance of the project, he said that the Mekong Delta in general and Can
Tho city in particular are among the places in the world most affected by climate change.
He asked them to speed up construction to complete the project on schedule and ensure quality and environmental protection.
The PM also paid a pre-Tet visit to the city’s police and military forces, during which he asked their officers and soldiers to always closely follow and firmly grasp the situation, and not be passive or surprised in any circumstance; and be the core in protecting the Fatherland’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity./.
Source: Vietnam News Agency