Rowing venues moved to Curug

Rowing venues moved to Curug

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia will move rowing training venues to
Curug, Karawang, in West Java from the site at Jatiluhur dam in
preparation for the 2006 Asian Games, a sports official said on
Thursday.

Secretary of the athletes development department Subur Arief
Effendi said that the low water level at Jatiluhur was no longer
appropriate for staging a rowing competition.

He said the change in the venue was planned since 1993.

He said that a canal 2,200 meters long and 17 meters deep
would be set up at the new site. "The plan has yet to be
submitted to the National Sports Council (KONI) to be included in
the proposal for the Asiad bidding." (ivy)