Tabal skips a tangle
A few days after earning a spot, albeit belatedly, in the Philippine team for the coming Southeast Asian Games, the onus is now on Mary Joy Tabal to prove her worth.
On Thursday, Tabal was finally given the green light to compete in the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games—after initially being omitted from the lineup by the national athletics federation.
That snub put a long-running dispute in perspective. For all her talent, the 27-year-old Tabal is considered by running pundits as a maverick who prefers to train and race under her own rules, not her federation’s.
When she beat the qualifying time for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon in Canada, Tabal also failed to earn immediate inclusion in the Olympic team because she had quit the national pool formed by the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa).
After a conciliation meeting with Patafa president Philip Ella Juico, Tabal won reinstatement and a spot in the 13-athlete Olympic team. But she would resign from the national athletics team again after the Olympics.
Tabal’s resignation was, according to the Patafa, the “meat of the matter” why it did not include her in the SEA Games roster. This, despite her recent victory in the half-marathon (21K) distance of the same annual footrace in Ottawa.
Source: http://sports.inquirer.net/252559/tabal-skips-tangle
On Thursday, Tabal was finally given the green light to compete in the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games—after initially being omitted from the lineup by the national athletics federation.
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| Mary Joy Tabal. |
When she beat the qualifying time for the 2016 Rio Olympics in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon in Canada, Tabal also failed to earn immediate inclusion in the Olympic team because she had quit the national pool formed by the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (Patafa).
After a conciliation meeting with Patafa president Philip Ella Juico, Tabal won reinstatement and a spot in the 13-athlete Olympic team. But she would resign from the national athletics team again after the Olympics.
Tabal’s resignation was, according to the Patafa, the “meat of the matter” why it did not include her in the SEA Games roster. This, despite her recent victory in the half-marathon (21K) distance of the same annual footrace in Ottawa.
Source: http://sports.inquirer.net/252559/tabal-skips-tangle
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