KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian contingent, comprising 400 athletes and 98 officials, will be the largest team to participate in the Asean Universities Games (AUG) 2008.
The games will be held at 22 venues in Klang Valley, between Dec 11 and 21.
Malaysian Universities Games Council's promotion and sponsorship committee secretary Nur Ekmal Buhary said Thailand would be the second largest team with a 306-member contingent, followed by Singapore (277), Indonesia (264), the Philippines (163), Vietnam (125), Brunei (90), Timor Leste (61), Laos (26) and Cambodia (10).
"Myanmar could not participate at the AUG 2008 due to its domestic problems," he told Bernama here Thursday.
He said that throughout the games, the contingents would stay at 10 hotels in the Klang Valley.
On the preparation of the Malaysian athletes, he said they would start the final round of training today, until Dec 6, at the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).
Nur Ekmal said, apart from nurturing the mental strength and spirit of team work, the athletes would also be taken to the competition venues to familiarise themselves with the facilities.
Now that their varsities' examinations were over, the athletes could give 100 per cent concentration on the training, he added.
As for other contingents, Nur Ekmal said so far, only the hockey team and the lawn bowl athletes from Timor had arrived.
Both are currently undergoing training at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in Penang and the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in Skudai, Johor, respectively.
Other contingents would be arriving in the country, beginning Dec 6, said Nur Ekmal.
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