NSTsports Games-Sleeping on the floor - SE Asian Games off to horror-show start for soccer players SEAGames2019
Those in the soccer competition that started ahead of the main event beginning on Saturday have borne the brunt of the disruption.
Photographs of them napping on the floors of a hotel were shared widely on social media, among tens of thousands of postings under the hashtags #SEAGamesfail and #SeaGames2019 fail as Filipinos ridiculed the organisers of a Games that some politicians had promised would be a roaring success. Country flags of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are featured outside the New Clark City Aquatics Center, which is one of the sport venues of the SEA Games 2019, in Capas, Tarlac province, Philippines, 26 November 2019. The SEA Games 2019 is expected to hold its opening ceremony on 30 November 2019. - EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA
In all the host city of Clark, north of Manila, and other Games venues are housing roughly 11,000 athletes and officials from 11 countries during the two-week event that officially kicks off on Saturday.“We have brought food with us from Vietnam,” coach Mai Duc Chung told Vietnam News Agency, adding that traffic jams were so bad that the team had asked for a police escort.
Filipinos have been sharing photos of unfinished venues and posting sarcastic memes, drawing attention to a July comment by the president’s closest aide, Senator Christopher Go, promising a Games that would show the world the great job Duterte is doing.
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