As expected, Thailand topped the medal tally with a haul of but the entire kingdom was left weeping by losing the football gold - dubbed the 'mother of all gold medals' in both the men's and women's football.
Thailand had been winning the SEA Games crown in men's football for the last eight editions since while for the women, they were the defending champions. Thai football has certainly taken a beating in Laos where it is the first time since that Thailand failed to make the final four in football.
At the same time, Laos are fast gaining on the football powerhouses in the region by reaching the semi-finals before falling to eventual champions Malaysia. On the other hand, Malaysian regained their status as the SEA Games football champions with a win over Vietnam in the final. Malaysia also knocked out Thailand from a place in semi-finals. And Thailand's supremacy as the top sports nation in the South East Asian region have also come under serious threat. Vietnam finished a close second in medal tally with figures of Indonesia established themselves as the sprint kings with Suryo Agung Wibowo retaining his m with a new record of Indonesia, who will host the 26th edition of the Games in , also hailed little "wonder girl" Triyaningsih, who stands at cm and weighs slightly over 37kg, as the long distance queen.
She retained the 5,m and 10,m golds with the latter in a record time of The year-old from Salak Tiga in Central Java, is ranked eighth in the world in women's marathon. The men's 10,m also went Indonesia's way with Agus Prayogo taking the gold. He also took the 5,m gold for repeat his success he achieved in Korat. Malaysia's ended a year wait in the men's m with Mohd Zafril Zulaisni taking the gold - after Romzi Bakar last won the gold in Jakarta in Vietnam broke the monopoly of traditional powerhouses Malaysia and Indonesia in pencak silat by taking six golds compared to the three gold haul in Korat.
Laos shooters and taekwando exponents were also on golden trail - sending out strong signals that their rivals will have to take note of their 'arrival' in the two sports. A big 'thank you' to the people of Laos. You made us all feel at home while showing true sportsmanship in the battle for the medals in what is a incident-free SEA Games when it comes to the subjective sports. Laos may have finished in mid-table in the medal standings but you were the big winners overall. We are bound to hear of Laos in the coming future.
A point to note is that every nation returned home with a medal to show for their participation where Timor Leste at least won three bronze medals - a significant showing of the Games anthem of Generosity, Amity, Healthy Lifestyle. Lao wushu fighters smashed their medal target yesterday, winning three more gold medals to add to their tally in the sanshou finals on the last day of wushu events at Lao-ITECC. Phoxay Aphailath won the day? The President of the Lao Wushu Federation Mr Oudomsak Oudomthongkasem expressed his satisfaction that the Lao fighters had morethan doubled the federation?
Wushu is still a new sport in Laos, after this achievement our federation will expand in Vientiane and other provinces to draw on more resources and train good fighters to compete in the next SEA Games and do even better than in this event,? Their current successes build on those of previous SEA Games competitions, where in recent years Lao fighters have come away from the events with gold, silver and bronze medals.
Hundreds of fans packed the Budo Centre yesterday to cheer on year-old Lao fighter Ms Phonenaly Sayarath who rewarded them with Laos ' first gold medal in judo. As her supporters' shouts rose to a crescendo, Ms Phonenaly defeated her Thai opponent Sureerat Sadmaroeng in the final round of the women's under 52kg weight division.
Three Lao fighters competed in yesterday's final rounds at the Budo Centre. The fans' enthusiasm was rewarded by Ms Phonenaly's gold medal and the efforts of two other Lao fighters, Ms Syamphone Phetnida in the women's under 48kg and Ms Chitchinda Bounphaaksone in the under 75kg, who both won silver medals. She believes her success at this year's games is the result of two years of hard training in Japan , where she is studying.
Judo fighters competed for seven gold medals yesterday. Vietnam won three gold medals, while Myanmar , the Philippines and Thailand received one each. Today, seven more gold medals are up for grabs in judo. Laos has high hopes for two in the men's over kg and under 90kg categories, according to Lao judo trainer Chittiveth Nouankhaising. Dr Bosengkham Vongdara said yesterday at a press conference at the Media Centre. We made an admirable and significant contribution to the promotion of the event.
Lao people living in the provinces and overseas and all those interested in the games received timely information. We saw people living in Vientiane respond and actively take part by attending events and showing their enthusiasm. Reporters now knew how to better cover, send news and coordinate among themselves and other countries. In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the Philippine Sport Commission said the viral photo of the two toilets was taken "while the facility was under renovation".
Along with the image, the post included another photo of the "comfort room" with the caption "FACT". This photo showed the toilets separated by a partition.
The commission said this was taken on Wednesday of the facility at Ninoy Aquino Stadium. Photo on the left was taken while the facility was under renovation. Photo on the right is actual photo taken today, November 27 of the said comfort room at Ninoy Aquino Stadium. This came on top of the Philippines apologising on Sunday for leaving incoming football squads stranded at the airport or stuck waiting hours to check in to their rooms.
As part of that episode, one hotel issued this clarification: "We asked them the players if they needed chairs but they declined, preferring the floors so they could lie down to rest. Thailand's men's footballers trained in the streets near their hotel after their coach complained that the facilities provided were too far away, their coach told the Bangkok Post. Atlanta Hawks. College Football. Houston Texans set up coach David Culley to fail, then fired him.
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I can actually tell myself that i overcame the extraordinary. Two days later he returned to Facebook with a more positive update. He posted a video of him and Fabriga doing some well-executed dives in the 3m springboard synchro event and wrote about how happy he was:.
I'm so proud of us pakner John Fabriga, we really did our best despite of we just practiced this synchro dives for just 4 days, even though we failed to win, but at least we did overcame what we once knew was out limit, and that makes us a champion.
Thanks coach Brian Palattao for your endless support and immeasurable love to us from the preparation until the end of this competition, and special thanks to the people who's doing their best to make this experience possible, I owe you all of this.
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