KUALA LUMPUR: The initial 22 sports proposed by hosts Laos for the 25th SEA Games next year have come under fire from a number of countries, including Malaysia.
Laos have indicated that they might only stage about 25 sports, a far cry from the 43 medal sports and two demonstration sports in the programme of the biennial Games in Thailand last December.
Sports like shuttlecock, merely a traditional game played by ethnic groups in Asian countries like Vietnam, China, Laos, Cambodia, and fin swimming have been proposed, instead of weightlifting, snooker or basketball.
Shuttlecock, which resembles a hoop sepaktakraw match, uses feathers clustered together just like a shuttle used in badminton, but played with the feet.
The game is played in two basic forms – the artistic (points for the most difficult moves) and team (played with a net in the centre and two players on each side, juggling and smashing the shuttlecock with their feet).
Friday, July 4, 2008
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