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SCOOP Century Sports Awards PhilBoxing.com Tue, 18 Jan 2011 The Sports Communicators Organization of the Philippines has prepared an evening in which the Greatest and the Great Ones in 100 years of Philippine sport will gather in one roof. The SCOOP Century Sports Awards is designed to be a night for the ages, according to its president, Eddie Alinea of Malaya. ?It is the association?s share in the celebration of this historic event, a grand party of the millennium which will trace the heroics of the finest 100 athletes the country had produced since organized sports was established through the creation of the now-defunct Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation in 1911,? Alinea said. While the PAAF was established to distinguish the difference between the amateur and professional sports, its creation, likewise, led to the official launching of sports activities in the county and the Filipino athletes? participation in the international sporting conclaves ? pro or non-pro. The Awards Night is a product of years of research and examination of sports from the time Regino Ylanan did the country proud by scooping up three gold medals in the inaugural staging of the Far Eastern Games by ruling the shot put, discus throw and pentathlon events, in the process crowning himself Asia?s first ?Man of Steel.? And up to the present era of Manny Pacquiao, the only man to win eight world boxing titles in as many weight divisions, earning for him the world?s pound-for-pound king. From among this list of 100 Greats will come the athlete will be crowned ?The Greatest Filipino Athlete of the Century.? The SCOOP?s Council of Leaders, composed of the association?s past surviving presidents ? Beth Celis, Al Mendoza, Barry Pascua, Jimmy Cantor, Andy Sevilla and Ron delos Reyes ? senior sports editors and leading columnists who will be named later will decide who that one will be. The night will also serve as a reminder of, among others, Pancho Villa?s becoming the first Filipino and, for that matter, Asian to win a world boxing championship by annexing the flyweight crown in 1923; and Teofilo Yldefonso?s winning for the country its first Olympic medal, a bronze, in the 1928 Games, which he repeated four years later in distinguishing himself as the only athlete from this shore to bring home a pair of medals. Long jumper Simeon Toribio and boxer Jose ?Cely? Villanueva in joining Yldefonso in gifting the country its finest moment in the World?s Greatest Sports Show by completing a three-bronze medal harvest in 1932; and bowler Paeng Nepomuceno, who marched triumphantly four times as World Cup champion must also earn their places in the list. Anthony Villanueva, son of Cely, presenting the country with its first silver medal, also in boxing, in 1964 and Mansueto ?Onyok? Velasco duplicating the feat 32 years later; Gabriel ?Flash? Elorde emerging as the world longest junior-lightweight titleholder for seven years; Bong Coo, another World Cup winner and the winningest Filipino athlete in the Asian Games with a total five gold medals; Lydia de Vega-Mercado, the first woman athlete to win the centerpiece 100 meters in the Asian Games; Inocencia Solis the first Filipina to be crowned Asiad?s fastest woman; and Mona Sulaiman, the Game?s 100 and 200 meters gold medalist who actually had three medals counting her bronze in shot put, are also cinch to make it to the century?s great performers. For winning the Formula One Macau Grand Prix back-to-back in the 60s, car racer Arsenio ?Dodjie? Laurel will also be honored along with Jethro Dionisio, the only man to win the World Speed Shooting championship (Steel Challenge), Salvador del Rosario,the only Filipino to have won the world weightlifting crown, and Arrienne Cerdena, Olympic gold medalist in the 1988 Games when bowling was a demonstration sport are also among the early nominees. These are only a few of those SCOOP plans to pay tribute to. The complete list will be announced as soon as it is finalized.  |
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