{"id":69868,"date":"2016-01-31T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69868"},"modified":"2016-01-31T23:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:52:22","slug":"11-asian-games-events-held-palembang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/31\/11-asian-games-events-held-palembang\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Asian Games events to be held in Palembang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA &#8211; The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has decided to hold 11 sports events of the 2018 Asian Games in Palembang, South Sumatra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three events are moved from Palembang to Jakarta. They are weightlifting, table tennis and gymnastics,&#8221; OCA deputy president Tsunekazu Takeda, said after attending a third coordination meeting of the Asian Games 2018 committee here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Takeda expressed appreciation to the preparations that have been made by the Indonesian central as well as regional governments especially with regard to renovation of venues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Asian Games 2018 has 28 Olympic events, eight non-Olympic and one event proposed by the organizing country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>OCA, Takeda said, is optimistic and believes Indonesia is capable of hosting the 2018 Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>The general chairman of the Indonesian Olympic Committee, Erick Thohir, said the sports branches that would be competed in Palembang include football qualifying round, canoeing\/kayaking, volley ball qualifying round, rowing, shooting, triathlon, basket ball qualifying round, sepak takraw, cliff climbing, tennis qualifying round and soft-tennis qualifying round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think jet skiing, para-gliding, bridge and road skating have been put in the note,&#8221; he said regarding the sports event to be proposed by Indonesia as the host country.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Indonesia Gold Program committee (Satlak Prima) and the ministry of sports would determine which one to be chosen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">&#8220;That is the domain of the Satlak Prima and the ministry of sports. The KOI (Indonesia Olympic Committee) is tasked with opening cooperation with foreign countries,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA &#8211; The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has decided to hold 11 sports events of the 2018 Asian Games &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":69869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[9230],"class_list":["post-69868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-uploads","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}