(KPL) Luang Prabang is preparing ahead for the 9th National Games in December 2011. The main stadium of the province has been renovated completely and the construction of other facilities is underway.
The province is allocating venues to be used for the competition. Twenty three roads are also under improvement as well as other basic facilities such as water supply systems and electricity.
Last year, the Lao National Sports Committee undertook major renovations to the main stadium which now has 80,000 seats. This year they want to build seven more competition venues.
Head of the Provincial Sports Service, Mr Chandy Bounnhong, said that they were asking the government to provide more than 138 billion kip for constructing new facilities and improving the existing ones.
Construction of the additional sport fields has already started and in general around 30 per cent of the work is carried out. Mr Chandy said companies will use their own resources to build the venues and the government will repay them later.
The new competition venues to be built and is being built include the stadiums of basketball, petanque, tennis, volleyball and beach volleyball, swimming pool and shooting range.
There are twenty-one sports to be competed at the 9th National Games namely petanque, basketball, football, sepak takraw, volleyball and beach volleyball, muay lao, boxing, badminton, cycling, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, golf, shooting, bowling, judo, karatedo, top spinning, crossbow, pencak silat, and track and field.
The Luang Prabang provincial Sports Department is asking six districts to host selection competitions for the games in football, petanque, taekwondo, badminton, top spinning and crossbow.
Mr Chandy said they needed funding for athlete preparation and training as well as administration of the games.
Luang Prabang province last hosted the National Games twice so far 1996 and 2007
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