SEA Games walk event hit dead end

SEA Games walk event hit dead end

BANGKOK (AFP): The walking races at this year's Southeast
Asian Games in Chiang Mai in December have got snarled up in
Thailand's traffic problems, a newspaper said.

The Olympic Committee of Thailand informed the Southeast Asian
Federation council, which toured the northern city last week,
that walking races would have to be dropped, the Bangkok Post
said.

The events would cause severe roadblocks in Thailand's second
largest city, already plagued by hints of Bangkok's traffic
nightmare, and transportation of goods from the north would be
disrupted, the organizing committee explained.

Malaysia, Indonesia and Burma were upset as they have done
well in past Southeast Asian Games, the daily said.

Apart from wrangling over events to included or excluded, the
committee received high marks for progress made in construction
of facilities, it said.