Saturday, July 4, 2009

Indonesia to propose for quadrennial SEA Games

Indonesia will propose the Olympic Council of Asia to hold the South East Asian (SEA) Games --currently a biennial event-- every four years, chairwoman of the Indonesian Sports Council (KONI) Rita Subowo said Saturday.

Rita told kompas.com that two years time were not enough to for participating countries to prepare.

She said that if SEA Games were held quadrennially, the SEA Youth Games would be held in between two SEA Games events.

“SEA Youth Games is an important event to prepare regional junior athlete to compete the Asian Youth Games,” she said on the sidelines of Indonesia vs Bahrain mens volleyball semis match in the Asian Youth Games in Sentosa Island, Singapore.

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