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The Philippine Super League (PSL) said on Sunday it decided to move its beach volleyball bubble originally established for the end of this month to mid-February for the safety of athletes and participants.
Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, PSL President Philip Ella Juico also cited the series of climatic disturbances as one of the reasons for archiving the tournament to be held within SBMA at Subic.
The PSL Invitational Beach Volleyball Challenge Cup was hoping to follow the PBA bubble in Clark, Pampanga, which rebooted professional basketball amid the health crisis.
However, despite the COVID-19 scare that disrupted the PBA’s schedule, Juico said they trust the health protocols that he designed five months ago, which also obtained approval from the Interagency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases. Emerging (IATF).
The PBA and PSL were among the first leagues to draw up a set of guidelines for the restart and got the green light from the IATF.
“The PSL games are all outdoors, we have a much smaller number of participants (compared to the PBA) and the playing field is only a few meters from the hotels,” Juico said of the tournament originally scheduled for the November 28 and 30. .
But the league is also concerned about frontline players assigned to monitor games, as they may be needed to be deployed to areas of calamity. “Taking a conservative and proactive stance, Central Luzon, which includes the SBMA industrial zone, may suffer serious damage to be inflicted by severe weather shocks (typhoons Rolly and Siony) days apart over the next few weeks,” Juico said.
He said they met with government agencies on Friday and raised concerns about handling disaster relief.
“The PSL will get out of the way for the common good. So that these agencies can give their full attention to the public emergency, Juico said. INQ
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