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11th SA Games in Nov-Dec '08

Sports Reporter
The 11th South Asian (SA) Games will be held in Dhaka during winter next year, it was decided at a meeting of the South Asia Olympic Council (SAOC) yesterday.
A total of 15 disciplines for the regional Games were finalised with hosts Bangladesh getting the option to choose two more disciplines in three months.
Although the Games were due to be held early in 2008 after a few delays, the hosts will decide a time between November and December.
It was also surprising to see disciplines like volleyball, basketball, badminton, wrestling, cycling and rowing make way for handball, archery and squash.
Twenty-one delegates from national Olympic committees of seven South Asian countries, including five from hosts Bangladesh, took part in the meeting with Bhutan being absent.
Chief of SAOC organising committee and president of the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA), Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed presided over the meeting.
"We had to accommodate requests from different sides and we finalised the decision on the
basis of secret ballot," informed acting BOA secretary general Kutubuddin Ahmed at a press briefing.
It requires at least four votes to include a discipline into the list of the competition. The SAOC executive committee decided to include hockey, kabaddi and squash since these entered the Asian Games as South Asian disciplines.
However, T\venty20 cricket will be incorporated into the Games, if cricket giants of the region pledge to send their national teams, Kutubuddin added.
"The disciplines in which we have the potentials will be included as the hosts' priority," Kutubuddin informed.
The five disciplines that were dropped despite beingpart of the 10th SA Games in Colombo, did not receive support from the partidpatingcountries.
The 15 disciplines that have been finalised are: athletics, shooting, swimming, hockey, squash, Kabaddi, boxing, weightlifting, taekwondo, football, karate, ushu, handball, table tennis and archery.
A flying doyel (magpie robin), designed by artist Moniruzzaman, has been chosen as the 11th SA Gameslogo.