With less than a year before the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh, the SEA Games Federation is set to meet in a matter of weeks to finalise the list of sports and events that will be contested in the Cambodian capital.
That final list for the May 5-17 event may raise some eyebrows, with a number of sports that have featured regularly in recent editions of the biennial event on the verge of missing out.
At the most recent SEA Games Federation meeting at the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh last week (July 11-13), a provisional list of 40 sports included mainstays like athletics and aquatics, with water polo returning after missing the last edition in Hanoi in May 2022, which had been postponed by seven months due to the pandemic.
