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Three ABG 2014 sport migrated to Asian Games, this is quite funny. Sambo and Kurash? Amazing if you are able to find 10 people who know this sport in the streets Wushu and sepak takraw already became the core of Asian Games, hard to see them omitted in future editions (although still dominated by certain countries). Meanwhile cricket and kabaddi are rather in danger, even cricket almost dropped from the program (Indonesia reluctantly accepted it after a few negotiations and leads to the addition of cricket in our National Games to form a national team). Bridge, pencak silat, and jetski are clearly Indonesian initiatives - you know.. hosting benefits I just hoped that unpopular martial arts stay in AIMAG until they have more than 30 countries take part in it, but let's see what happen in 2018

You can try share it here first, @Werloc will decide about that

After the Japan SS finals, it is proofed that China doesn't really care about the mass-retirement of their top players

Unfortunately, there is no a special pool of sports that can be contested in Asian Beach Games. They omitted many water sports but added some unrelated ones like Muay and 3x3 basketball. Those are the examples of "moving a sport to a beach and call it beach sport". I hope OCA can make a better regulation to standardize the Games.

Asian Beach Games Opening is on the way in Da Nang, Vietnam. Guess who is joining the party P.S: It's a bit unfortunate for Vietnam as strong winds and rain started right after the opening sequence and the giant screen failing afterwards Watch here:http://vtv.vn/truyen-hinh-truc-tuyen/vtv1.htm

SECTION 2 - ARTIST CHOICE AND ELIGIBILITY: 2. (a) Artists chosen to represent a nation must be born in or be of the same nationality as the nation for which they are participating OR they must have more or equal association with that nation. But I don't think she is "Guyanese" enough, since she also has Irish and Italian heritage. Maybe ask @Werloc for final verdict?

It was a "fake" retirement, she is recovering in her hometown

Chinese WS no need to worry... He Bingjiao defeated Ratchanok Intanon

Nailed it for now. But it is still odd haha

Did I trigger a glitch or what? Why is part of my post not displayed in the white space? Tried to edit it a few times, but nothing happened

Indonesia Letto - Ruang Rindu (ENG: Longing Room) Indonesian English Di daun yang ikut mengalir lembut Terbawa sungai ke ujung mata Dan aku mulai takut terbawa cinta Menghirup rindu yang sesakkan dada Jalanku hampa dan kusentuh dia Terasa hangat oh didalam hati Kupegang erat dan kuhalangi waktu Tak urung jua kulihatnya pergi Tak pernah kuragu dan slalu kuingat Kerlingan matamu dan sentuhan hangat Ku saat itu takut mencari makna Tumbuhkan rasa yang sesakkan dada Chorus 2x: Kau datang dan pergi oh begitu saja Semua kut'rima apa adanya Mata terpejam dan hati menggumam Di ruang rindu kita bertemu Bertemu.... On the leaves which flow smoothly Carried by a river to the ends of my eyes I am getting scared being carried by love Breath in longing which suffocates me My road is empty and I touched her Feeling the warmth inside my heart I hold onto it tightly and I tried to stop the time But still I couldn't to prevent her walking away Never have I doubted and always remember Your sparkling eyes and warm touch At that time, I feared to find the meaning of These growing feels, which are suffocating me Chorus x2 You come and go so naturally, I accept the way it is I close my eyes and my heart mutters In the longing room, we would meet We would meet.... Side Note: The song is from their first album, Truth, Cry, and Lie which is released in 2006. Formed in Yogyakarta, they have released four albums so far. The vocalist, Noe, is the son of a famous poet which makes their songs really poetic and a bit hard to translate for me.

I am actually have 4 or 5 songs in my mind as main candidate but after listening to some other popular band/singers my list has expanded to 12

Apparently our National Games website is identical to Rio 2016 website...

Malaysia was amazing with 2 golds. Sadly we don't have Malaysian members here Meanwhile another hope of Indonesian medal was lost after David Jacobs (table tennis) crashed out in the 1st knock out round

Indonesia is in

My goodness.. His Mandarin Chinese is absolutely better than me (which is a shame since I'm from Chinese descent) And even he speaks Taiwanese! Not much "x speaks y language" videos features Taiwanese, it's funny to hear a language that I use quite often with my family members being spoken by a foreigner. And somehow he has the "middle-aged man speaking style" in certain parts of his speech

Wow! Feels like a medley of pop song (coz I'm really into national anthems)

I'm also lost And btw Toguz korgool and Mangala is just a variation of "Congklak" (Indonesian traditional game). Man, we should've sent children to those events

I think there will be a livestream in this edition for ABG VTV 6 & 8 as Vietnamese main broadcaster will air some events, let's hope I can find a good stream

May I kindly remind you that Egypt almost sent some doubles representatives at Rio 2016 if they weren't out from top 50. Bolivia does have a federation, but rarely participate in international events.. If I'm not mistaken Saudi Arabia is a provisional member of BWF. (must recheck it again)

A hero's welcome for Indonesian medalist The airport is crowded like hell.. It's been so long since a big welcome like this organized for Olympians

Another one here.. I'd love to see it. I watched a few events at the Southeast Asian Games and it is somehow exciting. And here is a suggestion to the sport program: Table tennis: As someone mentioned before, remove the team event and add the 3 doubles event. (I have more in my mind, but all of them are just conflict of interest e.g. boxing and golf)

IOC is uploading lots of highlights and Rio Replays Guess we don't need to wait so long then.

365 days countdown for IOC to upload those, just like Sochi

Obrigado Rio! Now let's go back normal life (Well, not really for me, because Indonesia's National Games is coming hahahaha)