Surakarta to host Olympic 10K

Surakarta to host Olympic 10K

JAKARTA: Surakarta, a Sultanate town in Central Java, is likely
to host a 10K Olympic Day run in early July, a top official of
the National Sports Council (KONI) said on Monday.

The program is part of the worldwide Olympic movement pursued
by the International Olympic Council (IOC), which will donate to
each of the organizing countries US$2,500 in financial
assistance.

"We may choose Surakarta to remind us it was there that
Indonesia first staged the National Sports Championships (PON)
back in 1948," Kusnan Ismukanto, KONI's chief in charge of
foreign affairs, said.

Kusnan said the Olympic Day run would fall on June 22. "But it
would be too close to the Jakarta 10K on June 29. Therefore, we
put it back until early July," he said.--JP