Ando Gets Boost From IOC Program

SWP chief: Elreen needs Olympic scholarship badly

- Waylon Galvez

The Samahang Weightlifting ng Pilipinas welcomed the inclusion of Elreen Ando to the Olympics Solidarity Scholarship program of the International Olympic Committee.

SWP president Monico Puentevella said Ando, who competed in the Tokyo Games, truly deserved the grant which was recently approved by the Philippine Olympic Committee.

“As an Olympian, she deserves getting this scholarship. She needs this badly,” Puentevella said.

“Like our first-ever Olympics gold medal winner Hidilyn Diaz, we at weightlifting shall produce not only weightlifters, but educated women when it’s time for them to retire.”