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| Rimau, a Malaysian tiger, is the mascot of the 29th SEA Games which will feature nearly 500 athletes from Viet Nam. — Photo visionkl.com |
Viet Nam News
HA NOI — Viet Nam will send more than 470 athletes to compete at the 29th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Malaysia in August.
The athletes will be supported by more than 200 coaches, experts and doctors together with thousands of supporters from Viet Nam, said Tran Duc Phan, deputy head of the Viet Nam Sport Administration, yesterday.
At the coming games, Vietnamese competitors will take part in 32 out of 38 sports.
They will meet about 6,000 athletes from 10 other countries in the region.
The send-off ceremony will be held on August 8 with the destination to be confirmed later. The games, ASEAN’s most important sporting festival, will be held from August 19-30.
At the previous games in Singapore two years ago, Viet Nam finished third with 73 golds. Thailand (95 golds) and the hosts (84 golds) secured the first and second positions, respectively. — VNS
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