EXPECT some changes in the Milo Little Olympics this year.
The development was announced yesterday during the 2016 Milo Sports Event Cascade & Operations Performance Improvement and the Nestle Philippines Milo Workshop attended by different organizers of the Milo Marathon and the Milo Little Olympics held in Makati City.
Ricky Ballesteros, the Visayas Leg organizer of the prestigious school-based, multi-sporting meet, revealed that among the changes include the addition of karatedo and arnis, which were demo sports last year.
The addition of the two means that there will now be 15 sporting events in this year’s meet. The others are athletics, badminton, basketball, football, gymnastics, lawn tennis, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, chess, scrabble, sepak takraw and volleyball.
Aside from the two new sports, Ballesteros said Nestle Philippines is also planning to adapt changes in basketball and football.
In basketball, organizers are looking to make it into a three-on-three format while in football, they want to use a seven-aside format.
“They wanted to draw more participants so they are planning to apply these changes but it’s not final yet. We have another meeting sometime in April or May to finalize these matters,” Ballesteros said.
According to Ballesteros, the Visayas Regional Finals of the Milo Little Olympics may also return to Cebu after it was held in Iloilo for the first time in 19 years last year. It is tentatively scheduled in August.
Aside from discussing some planned changes, Nestle Philippines also feted organizers. Ballesteros received the “Best Organized Leg” in the entire country for the Milo Marathon.