The thirty first SEA Video games flag-raising ceremony crew. VNA/VNS by way of ANN
HANOI— The flag-raising ceremony of the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games befell on the My Dinh Nationwide Sports activities Complicated in Hanoi on Wednesday with the participation of greater than 8,000 delegates.
At 9.34 am, the nationwide flag, together with the flags of ten Southeast Asian nations, rose over Stand B of the complicated. There have been 11 sports activities delegations together with the Philippines, with 31 members of every delegation, and representatives of their embassy in Vietnam there for the occasion.
On the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism, who can also be deputy head of the SEA Video games 31 Organizing Committee Hoang Dao Cuong warmly welcomed leaders, officers and sports activities delegations of Southeast Asian nations to SEA Video games 31.
Cuong mentioned this was the second time that Vietnam has been honored by internet hosting the SEA Video games, demonstrating the proper, the duty and the duty of the host nation for Southeast Asia.
Up to now two years, the area’s most outstanding sports activities occasion was postponed as a result of sophisticated growth of COVID-19 pandemic.
“There are numerous difficulties and challenges, however with the Authorities’s willpower, the Vietnamese individuals’s sturdy assist and the enthusiastic assist of the sports activities delegation of 11 Southeast Asian nations, specifically, the organizing committee gained extra religion to arrange a profitable and protected SEA Video games,” he mentioned.
Cuong mentioned SEA Video games 31 could be held between Could 12 and 23 in Hanoi and 11 close by cities and localities.
The occasion can be a sports activities gathering of Southeast Asia’s excellent athletes to compete with the additional purpose of making ready for the Asian Video games which was imagined to be held this 12 months.
“We hope that you should have fantastic experiences with the pure fantastic thing about our nation, in addition to our hospitality throughout SEA Video games 31,” he mentioned.
The flag-raising ceremony is held in each regional, continental and world Sports activities Video games. In Vietnam, the ceremony goals to mark the presence of collaborating nations, welcome all sports activities delegations to the thirty first SEA Video games and encourage the aggressive spirit of athletes.
Additionally it is anticipated to assist introduce Vietnam’s cultural identification and other people to worldwide buddies, bringing a memorable expertise to SEA Video games opponents.
The opening ceremony of the biennial event formally kicks off on Thursday.
Vietnam hosted the SEA Video games for the primary time in 2003.
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