The Institutional Development of the Philippine Olympic Movement and the Current Rise of Its Olympic Athletes

Abstract

The paper describes the institutional development of the Olympic movement in the Philippines from the American period to the contemporary era as it operates within the values of ‘Excellence, Respect and Friendship’ of Olympism. Using Bowen’s document analysis as a qualitative tool, the paper highlights the institutional changes and policy reforms in the Philippine sports governance in the development of the Olympic movement with emphasis on the promotion of athlete welfare in the Philippines. As an added dimension, the paper offers a passing review of the recent Olympic athletes’ protest in the Philippines and analyses the underlying assumptions of Filipino athletes’ passivity on social issues. Furthermore, the paper examines the significance of the Philippines Olympic Committee (POC) Athletes’ Commission in addressing the athletes’ rights and welfare as it interrelates and aligns itself with the goals and objectives of the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission. More importantly, the paper proposes an Input-Process-Output-Outcome/Result (IPOOR) Model to measure the success of the POC Athletes’ Commission qualitatively in terms of the three levels of analysis espoused by the IOC Athlete’s Commission namely, input, output, and results, as ways forward in the promotion and development of the strategies, programmes, and projects of the Philippine Olympic movement.

Keywords:

• Athlete’s Commission
• development
• friendship
• institutional
• Olympic movement
• Philippines

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

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Dennis V. Blanco

Dennis V. Blanco is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He was formerly Associate Dean of the College of Administrative and Financial Sciences at AMA International University Bahrain. (now University of Technology Bahrain) and former Program Head of Political Science and Social Science at Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Manila.