Thursday 28 February 2008

SEA Games in 2009, Laos, has announced that only 25 sports will be held in the upcoming SEA Games

Hosting for their first time, Laos lack the infrastructure and timespan to build facilities thus the drop of many sports such as equestrian, gymnastics, dance sport, cycling, basketball, fencing, softball, chess all water sports and softball

The only sport that will be contested is traditional boat race, wrestling, wushu, karate-do, muay, petanque, sepak takraw, shooting, football/futsal, golf, handball, judo, pencak silat, shuttle cock, snooker and billiards, archery, athletics, badminton, bowling, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, aquatics, boxing and volleyball/beach volleyball

The next date for 25th SEA Games is tentatively set at December 13-21 in Vientiane, Laos. The main area of focus will be at Luangprabang and Champasak

Currently in plan is a $46-million main stadium, $6 million training facility and a new hotel to house an expected figure of 2,500 athletes

1 comment:

Mii said...

Last SEA Games in thailand have 43 sports.
This is only 25 sports in SEA Gqmes 25th I want to know why Laos drop many sport in SEA Games 25th.