Lao National Sports Committee SEA Games 2009 Goals

The 25th SEA Games Organising Committee recent meeting saw officials summarizing the goals and planning for the next year upcoming SEA Games

Here are the plans so far

Cooperate with Singapore to prepare for the event in September to December
Hold a Miss SEA Games beauty pageant
Build a digital clock in Vientiane to mark the countdown to the games sponsored by the Lao Brewery Company
Renovate the national football stadium, tennis courts and the sports department’s indoor stadium with US$2,400,000 aid from Thai Tourism and Sports Ministry
Training of LNSC officials, referees and athletes and payment by ministry around US$175,000
Vietnam and Thailand assist in doping control staff assistance
Sports training centre and athletes’ accommodation in Vientiane to be completed by end of the year with assistance from the Vietnamese government
Sending Lao football, judo, karatedo, wushu, wrestling, pencak silat, swimming and diving teams for training in Vietnam
Sending Lao wushu and shuttlecock teams training in China
Lao-Singapore Cooperation Centre to help skills of Lao committee officials
New football stadium to have new 500 planted trees
Next year May another meeting to discuss accommodation, food, decoration of the city, tourism, traffic and telecommunications
Olympic Committee of Asia and the competition organising committee of the SEA Games requested to help running the games
To build the Athletes’ accommodation at National University of Laos assisted by the Vietnamese government
Republic of Korea to provide sports equipment worth more than US$405,000
Singapore to help in promoting game tourism

Construction Status

SEAGAMES 2009 TALK