Michael Keon, the executive director of the Project Gintong Alay in the 1980s, stressed the importance of talent identification and grassroots development programs to produce world-class talents such as the late trackster Lydia de Vega-Mercado. Paying tribute to de Vega-Mercado’s legacy in Philippine sports at the San Miguel Corporation-Philippine Sportswriters ...

Source: Manila Bulletin (https://mb.com.ph/2023/03/07/michael-keon-cites-importance-of-grassroots-program-to-produce-the-next-lydia-de-vega-mercado1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michael-keon-cites-importance-of-grassroots-program-to-produce-the-next-lydia-de-vega-mercado1)