DAVAO DEL NORTE, April 29, 2015 - THE Davao del
Norte Sports and Tourism Complex (DNSTC) will be the venue of perhaps the
biggest outdoor gathering of Filipino fans rooting for Manny Pacquiao in the
most important fight of his fabled career against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on
Sunday.
And the crowd would be representing the entire
country—all 17 regions of them.
“Easily it would be the biggest public viewing
ever for a Manny Pacquiao fight,” Davao del Norte Governor Rodolfo del Rosario
told the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum on Tuesday at Shakey’s
Malate.
The 2015 Palarong Pambansa hosts have
deliberately delayed the games’ opening ceremonies for a day on Monday to give
way to the Pacquiao-Mayweather megafight in Las Vegas that is expected to
happen at noon Sunday.
But competitions in some of the 17 sports on the
Palaro program will start on Sunday for the weeklong Davao del Norte Palaro
backed by the Tagum Agricultural Development Company Inc., Damosa Land, Davao
Packaging Corp., Davao International Container Terminal, Inc. and Pearl Farm
Beach Resort.
“There will be four giant LED screens at the
DNSTC and we expect all members of each of the delegations from the country’s
17 regions to be there rooting for Manny Pacquiao,” Palaro Organizing
Committee Secretariat Chairperson Sofonias Gabonada Jr. said.
The Palaro, supervised by the Department of
Education, is the annual grassroot multi-sport competition among students in
the primary and secondary level from all of the country’s 17 regions.
Attendance is pegged at no less than 7,000 athletes, plus 3,000 officials,
coaches and team support and thousands more team support—chaperones, family
members and tourists.
“Not only are the participants in the Palaro
expected for the public viewing but all of Tagum City and Davao del Norte who
are all eager to see Manny Pacquiao beat Floyd Mayweather Jr.,” del Rosario
said.(PIO DavNor)
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