The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) wants no less than the crème dela crème of amateur sports to carry the tricolors in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

PSC chairman Harry Angping said every athlete that will be given the opportunity to compete in the 2010 Asian Games, scheduled November 12 to 27, “are going to be medal potentials.”

“We won’t be sending anyone who doesn’t have a chance of winning a medal,” said Angping.

The PSC chairman added that he will be conferring with leaders of various national sports associations as early as January next year to determine who among their athletes will be tapped to join a cast of elite competitors.

Angping said these men and women will be sent to compete overseas on a regular basis aside from having their monthly allowance of P15,000 increased to as much as P35,000.

“I want preparations for the Asian Games to get off the ground first thing in the new year.”

By March, these athletes would either be training under foreign coaches or working out on foreign soil and revving up for international meets.

Angping said he will stick to the formula of sending only medal potentials to Guangzhou, something that he did when he fielded only 153 athletes to the 25th Southeast Asian Games that ended yesterday in Vientiane, Laos.

Only 38 gold medals were won in Laos and Angping believes that the country managed to save enormous funds by allowing the participation of a smaller number instead of the usual practice of deploying a bloated entourage to the biennial sportsfest, whose level of play is the lowest in the world.