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Podcast: Howie Severino Presents
Episode: Pole vault champion EJ Obiena: "There should be no space for politics in sports."
Description: Currently SEA Games pole vault champion and number three in the world, 26-year-old EJ Obiena is training to be a gold medalist at the next Olympics, despite paltry government support and a sports bureaucracy that mired him in a dispute at the peak of his career. But despite opportunities to change nationalities and compete for another country, Obiena told Howie Severino that he will always be a Filipino seeking to inspire younger athletes.Obiena revealed that hours before his flight to Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics, he still didn't know if he would have poles to compete in his event. Sports...