Southeast Asian Games Update

The Southeast Asian Games (also known as the SEA Games), is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games is under regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia.

Criticism

Recent Sea Games show the host strategy to dominate the medals. The strategy of cutting down the numbers of medals for sports that are the advantages of other countries has been a major problem for Southeast Asian Games that being carried out by the host country. At 2001 Southeast Asian Games, Malaysia introduced lawn bowls, netball and petanque, 2003 Southeast Asian Games, Vietnam added fin swimming and shuttlecock, 2005 SEA Games, the Philippines added arnis, a demonstration sport in 2003, with 6 sets of medals and it won 3 gold medals. At the 2007 SEA Games, Thailand added some new categories of sepak takraw and used a new kind of ball that had been used by their athletes for a year while other countries had never used it before. Thailand won nearly all sets of medal from that discipline.

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