KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Sports Council would not increase the number of sports for the 2010 SUKMA in Melaka from the 25 sports that was agreed in July.
National Sports Council (NSC) Director General Datuk Zolkples Embong said though a number of sports associations had appealed to include a number of sports that were not in the original list, the SUKMA supreme council rejected the appeals at a meeting in Melaka today.
"When considering the appeals, a number of factors like the current economic situation, infrastructure and cost were taken into account," he told Bernama here today.
Zolkples said among sports that were turned down were futsal and tennis.
"As for taekwondo, the Malaysian Taekwondo Association which is embroiled in an internal conflict must settle their problem one year before the Games and if they fail to settle the conflict, the sport might not be included although it is a compulsory Olympic sport," he said.
Minister of Youth and Sports Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob had in July announced that the 2010 SUKMA in Melaka would feature 25 sports as opposed to the 31 hosted by Terengganu.
Ismail Sabri had also stated that national athletes who had qualified for the Olympics would not be eligible to compete in Melaka while the 2012 SUKMA to be hosted by Perlis would be limited to those aged under-21.
The 25 sports listed would comprise of 18 compulsory sports and seven decided by the MSC, namely netball, basketball, equestrian, boxing, table tennis, silambam and petanque.
The compulsory sports included are aquatics (swimming/diving), weight lifting, cycling, badminton, football, gymnastics, hockey, lawn bowls, archery, shooting, athletics, tenpin bowling, sailing, pencak silat, sepak takraw, wushu, karate and squash.
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