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        "msgid": "asean-bodybuilding-cships-starts-in-bali-1447893297",
        "date": "2004-06-18 00:00:00",
        "title": "ASEAN bodybuilding c'ships starts in Bali",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "ASEAN bodybuilding c'ships starts in Bali Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jimbaran, Bali Forty-three bodybuilders from six countries are set to compete on Friday in the 7th South East Asian (ASEAN) Bodybuilding Championship in Jimbaran, Bali. With nine categories, the biennial competition will run until Tuesday. Indonesia will field 14 athletes. Singapore has arrived with 13 competitors while Vietnam is competing with nine.",
        "content": "<p>ASEAN bodybuilding c'ships starts in Bali<\/p>\n<p>Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jimbaran, Bali<\/p>\n<p>Forty-three bodybuilders from six countries are set to compete<br>\non Friday in the 7th South East Asian (ASEAN) Bodybuilding<br>\nChampionship in Jimbaran, Bali.<\/p>\n<p>With nine categories, the biennial competition will run until<br>\nTuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia will field 14 athletes. Singapore has arrived with<br>\n13 competitors while Vietnam is competing with nine. Thailand and<br>\nMyanmar have joined in with three competitors each and Malaysia<br>\nwill have one.<\/p>\n<p>The participant numbers were below expectations -- 100<br>\nathletes from 11 countries in the region -- according to Aditya<br>\nKarman, an official of the Indonesian Bodybuilding Federation<br>\n(IBF) in charge of regional affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Datuk Paul Chua, president of the South East Asian<br>\nBodybuilding Federation (SEABBF), said that the other five<br>\ncountries opted not to come to Indonesia, for one reason or<br>\nanother.<\/p>\n<p>\"The (countries) all have provided us with the reasons why<br>\nthey can't come,\" Chua said in a media conference in on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino, Cambodian and Laotian federations cited<br>\nfinancial difficulties. East Timor does not have a federation<br>\nyet, while Brunei's absence was not clear.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the low turnout, Chua said he guaranteed it would not<br>\nundermine the competitiveness because the region's best athletes<br>\nwere still around.<\/p>\n<p>Chua brushed aside suggestions that SEABBF punish the absent<br>\ncountries, and said that the body put more emphasis on fostering<br>\nbrotherhood in the region through sports, than on punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesian team manager Irwan Siregar said that the<br>\nparticipants had an equal chance in the competition with most<br>\nbeing evenly matched.<\/p>\n<p>He said Indonesia would face its toughest opposition from<br>\nSingapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our athletes are mostly young and so are other athletes from<br>\nother countries. The teams have an equal opportunity against each<br>\nother to win the championship,\" Irwan said.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-three-year-old Rachmat is the gold medal favorite for<br>\nIndonesia in the heavyweight category. His biggest rival is<br>\nlikely to be Azman Bin Abdullah of Malaysia.<\/p>",
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