Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Events and Attractions

Myanmar Replaces SEA Games Events With 'Traditional Sports,' Including Chinlone

Myanmar "has dropped popular Olympic sports" from the Southeast Asian Games in December, and "hopes to pack the competition with less well-known sports where its athletes are likely to win medals," according to the BANGKOK POST. The Games, to be held in capital Nay Pyi Daw and other locations, "will not have table tennis, tennis, gymnastics or badminton." Instead, Myanmar sports authorities have put 14 "traditional sports on the schedule, eight of which are played almost exclusively in Myanmar." One traditional sport is chinlone, which a newspaper described as a mix of "dance-like acrobatics mixed with soccer juggling skills" (BANGKOK POST, 1/28). In N.Y., Thomas Fuller wrote the SEA Games "is causing acrimony long before a single athlete has competed." National Olympic Committee of Thailand President Yuthasak Sasiprapha said that Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand "all intend to participate" in the competition, and have each "sent separate letters to Myanmar protesting the way the event is being organized." Yuthasak said, "These games are supposed to bring unity, but they are causing divisions instead." The country's Ministry of Sport Dir U Htay Aung said, "Every host country has the authority to decide which competitions should be included and excluded" (N.Y. TIMES, 1/27).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/01/29/Events-and-Attractions/Myanmar.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/01/29/Events-and-Attractions/Myanmar.aspx

CLOSE