SEA Games will minimize local heavy sports
In Thairath (Thailand), Vice Chairman of the Thai Olympic Committee Kong Ek Chaiphak Siriwat said that SEAGF has approved a new rule for the SEA Games, including classification of sports and competition content, and is applied from SEA Games 33.
The purpose of the amendment is to bring the SEA Games closer to the ASIAD and Olympic standards. The new regulation obliges the host country to include mainly Olympic and ASIAD sports in the list of organizations, while minimizing local sports that are beneficial to the host country.
This issue has been raised many times in previous SEAGF meetings but has not been agreed on in the charter and depends on and decided by the host. The 33rd SEA Games in Thailand is expected to be the beginning of change.
"This is considered an important turning point," Mr Chaiphak Siriwat told Thairath. "When the parties work together, the new rule will remove weaknesses and help the SEA Games move forward."
The SEA Games subjects continue to be divided into three categories, in which athletics and swimming are in group one - compulsory. Group two is at least 15 sports belonging to the Olympic, ASIAD or Asian Indoor Games, such as football, volleyball, shooting, archery, etc.
Group three is the local heavyweight subjects in which the host has strengths. The host can only choose a maximum of two subjects with a total of eight events. Disciplines and disciplines include Arnis, chess, bodybuilding, diving, Kempo, Netball, Muay, grass bowling, sports dance, pencak silat, billiards, traditional rowing, shuttlecock, vovinam and water skiing .
At the 32nd SEA Games, host Cambodia has seven out of 37 sports ranked in the third group, including diving, chess (general, Ouk Chaktrang), dance sports, and martial arts (arnis, kun Bokator, kun khmer, vovinam). ), pencak silat, billiards, traditional sailing and teqball.
In addition to the charter, SEAGF hopes Thailand will achieve its goal of selling television rights after 11 Southeast Asian countries unify in July 2022. This should have been done at the 32nd SEA Games, but the Cambodian government made the decision to waive the television rights.
