Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino vowed to up the ante for cycling after receiving the 2024 Merit Award during the Asian Cycling Confederation (ACC) Congress in Kazakhstan.
Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino received his Merit Award from Asian Cycling Confederation president Osama Al Shafar of the United Arab Emirates and senior vice president Raja Sapta Oktohari of Indonesia and secretary-general Onkar Singh of India.
Tolentino is also the president of the national sports association for the sport, PhilCycling, which fielded a 22-athlete team, the biggest since 1995, to the ACC Championships for Road that coincides with the Congress. His watch saw the conduct of two UCI continental races and emergence of four continental teams, and more importantly the participation in the London 2012 Olympics of Danny Caluag, who went on to win the Philippine one and only gold medal at the Incheon 2014 Asian Games.
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