REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Chief of the organizing committee of the 2018 Asian Games (INASGOC), Erick Thohir said that the 2018 Asian Games will hold 40 sports, and the number of sports cannot be changed anymore.
"The number of sports is 40, with 462 events," Thohir said at the Vice Presidential office here on Wednesday.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla is concurrently the chief of the Asian Games 2018's steering committee.
Previously, the Youth and Sports Minister, Imam Nahrawi, stated that Indonesia has an opportunity to renegotiate the number of sports events that will be held in the Asian Games.
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On Monday (Oct 9), Nahrawi sent a letter to the President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah, on the addition of 11 more games in three sports, namely archery, rock climbing, and taekwondo.
In archery, Indonesia requested for an addition of men's compound matches, female compounds, and compound mixes.
In rock climbing, Indonesia requested for four more events, namely men's speed world, women's speed world, men's speed classic, and women's speed classic.
Finally, Indonesia called for four additional events in taekwondo, namely men's kyorugi 54 kilograms, men's kyorugi 63 kilograms, women's kyorugi 46 kilograms, and women's kyorugi 53 kilograms.
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