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KUALA LUMPUR – The Asian Sepaktakraw Federation (Astaf) will hold talks with the Cambodia Sepak Takraw Association (CSA) and Asian Chinlone Federation (ACF) to include the inter-regu and regu events at the SEA Games 2023 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Astaf president Datuk Abdul Halim Kader said this would be done when he meets CSA president Meas Sarin and ACF president Soi Naing at the 35th King’s Cup Sepaktakraw World Championship in Bangkok from July 24 to 31.
“Astaf will also seek the support of Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) president Tan Sri Mohamad Norza Zakaria to assist in efforts to readmit the inter-regu and regu events at the SEA Games 2023.
“Astaf is very confident that there is room for negotiation with CSA and ACF for the inter-regu and regu events to be contested at the Cambodia SEA Games,” he said in a statement today.
Last Wednesday, the SEA Games Federation (SEAGF), with the recommendation from the Cambodia SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC), decided that only the team regu, quadrant, hook and chinlone events of sepak takraw would be held at the biennial Games in Cambodia.
Apart from Mohamad Norza, Abdul Halim said he would also seek the support of Malaysian Sepaktakraw Federation (Mastaf) president Datuk Suhaili Abdul Rahman and secretary-general Dr Noor Azam Shamsudin; National Olympic Committee of Thailand president Gen Pravit Wongsuwan; and National Olympic Committee of Indonesia president Raja Sapta Oktohari in efforts to get both the events to be included in Cambodia. – Bernama, July 18, 2022