KARACHI: The 13th South Asian Games might be held in Nepal from December 1-10, 2019; it was confirmed at the South Asian Olympic Council Executive Board assembly in Bangkok on Friday. Nepal Olympic Committee’s president and famous flesh presser Jeevan Ram Shrestha chaired the meeting. The meeting was attended using the Pakistan Olympic Association’s (POA) senior professional Mohammad Shafiq. The POA leader, Lt Gen (retd) Arif Hasan, and secretary Khalid Mehmood couldn’t reach Bangkok due to the unavailability of flights attributable to political anxiety between Pakistan and India.
In conjunction with Shafiq, both the senior officers are to wait for the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly in Bangkok on Sunday (tomorrow). Arif, also the OCA vice-president, has to attend the OCA Executive Board assembly on Saturday (nowadays). India no longer attended the meeting of the SAOC Executive Board. It was learned that this would be the final possibility for Nepal to host the biennial event. If Nepal, this time, additionally didn’t host it, it would lose the web hosting rights.
Nepal knowledgeable the participating countries that its venues were geared up and that its government was eager to host the eight-state competition. A question of cold climate was raised at some point during the meeting. Still, folks who objected to the new agenda have been instructed that the temperature in Guwahati, India, became very low at some stage in the twelfth South Asian Games hosted with the aid of India in 2016. Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, becomes the opposite host town. Nepal was alleged to host the Games in March 2019, but they have been postponed at a meeting in Tokyo last year because of venue issues.
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