Carrion: PSC revamp not the solution

Commissioner Cynthia Carrion yesterday said her recent meetings with top officials of the Athletes and Coaches Alliance of the Philippines (ACAP) does not mean that she is behind the move to have Carlos "Butch" Tuason ousted as chairman of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC).

"When they come to me, I don’t push them away. I listen to them and try to put things in order," said Carrion a day after accompanying ACAP officials led by Jaime Sebastian to Malacañang for a rare meeting with President Arroyo, her former classmate at Assumption.

Carrion, who joined the PSC early this year to replace Leonardo Celles, even said that personally, she believed that removing Tuason from office would not solve all the problems hounding local sports.

"We need to change some policies for the betterment of RP sports. We need changes from within the PSC. But it doesn’t mean a revamp," said Carrion, who admitted that everybody’s been edgy at the PSC, from the officials to the athletes, coaches and down to the employees.

And it all started last March when a group of athletes, coaches and officials staged a protest rally in Malacañang demanding the ouster of Tuason and his commissioners. Two more rallies were held since — the latest being a vigil that didn’t last long.

Carrion, a former aerobics official, also thinks that the President is not about to make any major announcement regarding the PSC but added that the Chief Executive is "upset" with all the infighting within the government sports agency.

"A revamp at this time is a remote possibility. The President has so many things to do. She’s been traveling a lot lately and talagang madami siyang ginagawa," added Carrion, who also said that she is not after the chairmanship of the PSC. "It’s not my ambition."