The Philippines Hosting World Olympic Memory Championships
By Lily O Ramos
The Philippines will bid to become the site of the prestigious World Olympic Memory Championships featuring the world’s best and brightest mental athletes in the world.
The world’s most comprehensive test of memory, founded by Tony Buzan and Chess Grandmaster Raymond Keene OBE and run by the World Memory Sports Council, was inaugurated in 1991 in London.
London hosted the first 11 stagings of the yearly organized competition of mental sports where participants memorize as much information within a given period of time, according to Philippine team coach Almario Marlon Bernardino.
Kuala Lumpur hosted it in 2003, Bahrain in 2007 and 2008 and Guangzhou for the last two years. England played host to the competition for the other years in its different cities, namely London, Manchester and Oxford.
Philippine Memory team manager Aurelio “Reli” de Leon said Vice President Jejomar Binay has expressed full support for the hosting by the Philippines of the mental sports competition when he brought the squad to the Vice President in a courtesy call at the Coconut Palace last January.