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(KPL/VNA) The 28th SEA Games officially opened on June 5 in Singapore, with a spectacular show featuring more than 5,000 performers.
President Tony Tan Keng Yam declared the Games officially open following a speech by the chairman of the SEA Games organising committee, Mr Lawrence Wong, who is also Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Ministry of Communications and Information.
Held every two years since 1959, the SEA Games feature a rich mixture of sports with many that are on the Olympic program, but also a few that keep faith with the region's unique sporting interests including the exotic pencak silat, sepak takraw and dragon boat racing.
SEA GAMES 2015 opening ceremony, Singapore, 6 June 2015.
(KPL/VNA) The 28th SEA Games officially opened on June 5 in Singapore, with a spectacular show featuring more than 5,000 performers.
President Tony Tan Keng Yam declared the Games officially open following a speech by the chairman of the SEA Games organising committee, Mr Lawrence Wong, who is also Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Ministry of Communications and Information.
Held every two years since 1959, the SEA Games feature a rich mixture of sports with many that are on the Olympic program, but also a few that keep faith with the region's unique sporting interests including the exotic pencak silat, sepak takraw and dragon boat racing.
More than 400 gold medals will be handed out by the time the Games close on June 16.
Lao athletic delegation, SEA GAMES 2015, 6 June 2015.
The Ministry of Education and Sports has hopes to win 5-7 gold medals at the upcoming 28th SEA Games or Singapore Games.
The Ministry of Education and Sports announced in April that it will send 200 athletes to compete in 20 categories of the 28th SEA Games.
The 20 categories include football, swimming, track and field, snooker and billiards, boxing, cycling, archery, fencing, golf, judo, rugby, pétanque, shooting, taekwondo, tennis, wushu, sepak takraw-chinlone, pencak silat, table tennis, and badminton.
The ministry has said that the most hopeful sports include pétanque, taekwondo, judo, wushu, cycling, archery and snooker.
The 8 hopeful sports have been prioritized by the government which has provided financial support for athlete training both domestic and abroad, and sports equipment.
Lao athletes won 13 gold medals, 17 silver medals and 49 bronze medals in the 27th Sea Games in Myanmar. As a result the Lao PDR was ranked 8 out of 11 in the games.
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