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Too much politics eating up RP sports By Aldrin Cardona 11/24/2011

Thursday, November 24, 2011

WHAT CAUSED SEAG TRAGEDY?

Too much politics eating up RP sports

By Aldrin Cardona 11/24/2011

Two deaths resulting from a football final stampede as the 26th Southeast Asian Games closed the other day did not dampen Indonesia\'s overwhelming triumph in the biennial meet that is nearing the level of the bigger, tougher Asian Games.

Indonesia is back on top of the sporting region after 14 long years of absence when it was relegated from being Asean\'s powerhouse to second fiddle, sometimes a happy third.

It arrived with a big push, the kind of rev expected from a muscled up car, as it hosted the Games for the first time since 1997..... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/sports/20111124spo1.html

2 comments:

Jesusa Bernardo said...

CORRUPT politics kasi kinukurakot ng hindi matuwid na sports appointees ang dapat mapunta sa sports development ng mga athletes natin.

"But if politics was a game, Philippine sports officials would have emerged triumphantly.

xxx

"It is our worst SEA Games finish, equalling only that of 2007 in Thailand, where the Philippines occupied the new median of the Games\' roster since Timor Leste joined to make the SEA Games an 11-nation roster in 2003 after the former Indonesian colony became a sovereign nation the year before."

Anonymous said...

Again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6XN7tBx8u8

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