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The obscure sports that made it to the SEA Games

NEWSROOM by NEWSROOM
August 22, 2024
in East Asia, Sports
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Soukanh Taypanyavong (R) of Laos competes against Tran Anh Tuan (L) of Vietnam during the men's vovinam final 55 kg final at Zeyar Thiri stadium during the 27th Southeast Asian SEA Games in Naypyidaw on December 20, 2013. Nguyen Soukanh Taypanyavong won the gold medal. AFP PHOTO / SOE THAN WIN (Photo credit should read Soe Than WIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Soukanh Taypanyavong (right) of Laos competes against Tran Anh Tuan (left) of Vietnam during the men’s 55kg vovinam final at the 2013 SEA Games in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. (PHOTO: Soe Than Win/AFP via Getty Images)

SINGAPORE — Arnis, vovinam, kenpo: Do these obscure sports add a regional flavour to the SEA Games? Or are they pointless distractions that serve only as boosts of the host nations in the medal tally table?

It is a debate that has dogged the biennial Games ever since it decided to include non-Olympic sports into its sporting programme since the 1970s. The first non-Olympic sport to…



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