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SOUTH ASIAN GAMES 2016Harpal Singh Bedi

India, the sporting powerhouse of the region, is all setto reassert its dominance once again in the 12th edi-

tion of the South Asian Games (SAG) to be held forthe first time at two venues- Guwahati and Shillong -from February 5 to 16.

The official motto of the Games is, "Play for Peace,Progress and Prosperity".The Logo – eight petals andthe Mascot of the Games-- Tikhor, the baby Rhino wereselected from around 450 entries each. Kolhapur’sAnant Khasbardar and Abhijeet Krishna of NIFT Patnacreated the mascot and logo respectively.

In the logo, eight petals represent the countriesparticipating in the Games. The petals are seen to bemoving in a clockwise direction showing the positivespirit of the games. The look also resembles a headgear that was given to the winners of games during theancient times in Europe .The Orchid represents the fla-vor of the region and a welcome stem to all participantsof the Games. The Orchid symbolizes the blooming ofthe synergy between these eight nations. Progress isthe clockwise movement of the petals.

The Mascot -Tikhor is the motivator, friend andfamiliar to sports lovers of the region. He is carryingthe message of peace, stability, amity and progressin the region.

The anthem of the games is a famous Assamesesong, "Ei Prithibi Ek Krirangan" (The world is a play-ground) by Bhupen Hazarika, the legendary lyricist,musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam.

Over 4500 sport persons and officials from eightcountries- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and host Indiaare scheduled to compete in 228 events over 23sports in this regional sporting extravaganza.Seven events- Archery, Badminton, Boxing, Football(W) Table Tennis ,Taekwondo and ,Wushu -will be

held in Shillong.Sixteen events -Athletics ,Basketball,Cycling ,Football (M) Handball, Hockey,Tennis,Kabaddi, Kho Kho, Shooting, Squash, Swimming,Triathlon, Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling arescheduled to be conducted in Guwahati. India

will take part in all the events and as per the list avail-able with the organizers.it will field the largest contin-gent of 519 sports persons and officials. Srilanka has send the tentative list of 484 participants and offi-cials, followed by Bangladesh (409) Nepal(398),Pakistan (337), Afghanistan (254), Maldives(184) and Bhutan (87).

India is hosting these games for the third time- hav-ing earlier held them in a Kolkata (1984, and Chennai1990). Bangladesh has also held these games thrice-InDhaka 1985,1993,2010). While Nepal (Kathmandu1984,1999),Pakistan (Islamabad 1989,2004),and

SriLanka (Colombo 1991,2006) has conducted themtwice each.

While four countries have held these games in theircapitals ,India is holding them in different states.This time North Eastern states will be hosting thefirst international event and it will help in showcasingthe potential of the region. This is also for the first timein the 32-year history of the Games that it is being heldat two different places. At the launch of the TorchRelay at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in NewDelhi on 18th January, 2016 Sports MinisterSarbananda Sonowal said "It's a very good begin-ning. The torch relay has been successfully launchedand this torch will first go to Shillong and then comedown to Guwahati."

"We are very happy with whatever support we havereceived so far from the Government of Assam andMeghalaya and the people of North East. So we arefirmly of the opinion that this SAG will be a grand suc-cess. These Games will help North East to focus on thepotentialities, probabilities and prosperity of theregion," said the Minister, who is also the chairman ofthe Games Organising Committee.

After lighting the torch, Sonowal passed it on toOlympic hockey gold medallist Zafar Iqbal andCommonwealth Games champion weightlifter N.Kunjarani Devi to begin the relay. “The South AsianGames is the symbol of the cohesion, peace and har-mony. The sportspersons are the sports ambassadorsof their respective countries. These Games will ener-gize the youth,” said the minister.

Initially, these Games were to be held in Indiain October, 2012. However, it was decided to postponethe Games because the Indian Olympic Associationfelt that it was not feasible to conduct the Games

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only two months after the London Olympics, a factwhich made athletes uncomfortable. In April 2012, theIOA announced that the games will be held for eightdays beginning from February 13, 2013but that was not approved by severalmember countries. Soon after theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC)suspended the IOA for alleged politicalinterference by the national governmentin its affairs. Two years later, on the 11February 2014, the IOC revoked thesuspension and a year later, on 5 June2015, the uncertainty over the venue tohost the Games ended with the SportsMinistry and Indian Olympic Associationdeciding to hold the regional multi-sport-ing event in Guwahati and Shillong in November-December 2015 However, this was postponed evenfurther to finally hold it in February this year.

History of the SAG:Proposal of the South Asian Federation (SAF)

Games was first Mooted in Germany by IndiaBangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka in 1981. In 1982, it wasdecided that the SAF Games would be an yearly eventwhich in turn, all the member countries would host.Next year (1983) the South Asian Sports Council(SASC), was formed to govern these games and it wasdecided to make it a bi-annual event. OnSeptember 17, 1984 amidst pomp, pageantry andparaphernalia, at the Dashartha Stadium in Kathmandu,King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev and QueenAishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi of Nepal inaugurated thegames .The first nine editions were known as theSouth Asian Federation Games.In 2004, at the 32ndmeeting of SASC, it was decided to rename the gamesfrom South Asian Federation Games(SAF) to SouthAsian Games(SAG) as the officials were of the viewthat the word Federation was diminishing the empha-sis on event and acting as a barrier in attracting crowd.

Since its inception, the Games have been dominatedby India with Pakistan finishing second to their archrivals seven times while Sri Lanka came second threetimes and Nepal once. The first nine editions (from 1984

to 2004) saw participation by seven countries andAfghanistan became the eight member of these Gameswhen it made its debut in 2006 at Colombo. The Gamesstarted at modest note with only five sports- Athletics,Swimming, Boxing, Football and Weightlifting- beingheld at Kathmandu. The second edition held at Dhaka in

1985 saw inclusion of two more sportsKabaddi and wrestling-taking the number ofdiscipline to seven.

In 1987, at Kolkata, the number of sportsdiscipline was raised to ten and that numbercontinued for next two Games. The numberof sports went up to 11 in 1993 and in2006 at Colombo seven new disciplinewere added and four years later atDhaka the number went up to 23. It hasbeen noticed that barring Men’s footballcompetition in most of the team events

tends to be lopsided. Even men’s hockey is India-Pakistan affair with other teams like Bangladesh, SriLanka and Nepal are just thereto add to the numberswithout contributing to the growth of the sports in theregion. India’s overwhelming authority in the Games isproved by the fact that country has so far won staggering1728 medals in the 11 editions of the Games whichinclude 900 Gold medals.

The following chart (source SAG office records) clear-ly shows the gap between India and the rest. Afghanistanmade a very impressive debut winning six gold and fol-lowed it by seven gold medals in their second appear-ance. Maldives is the only country which has yet to wina gold in these Games.

Gold Silver Bronze Total1 India 11 900 542 286 17282 Pakistan 11 311 375 336 10223 Sri Lanka 11 185 288 455 9284 Nepal 11 76 99 238 4135 Bangladesh 11 63 162 347 5726 Afghanistan 2 13 16 34 647 Bhutan 11 2 15 38 558 Maldives 11 0 1 8 9

In this edition of the Games, India is fielding a relative-ly inexperienced men’s hockey team while defending

champion Pakistan has announced that it will field itsstrong side. In squash also, battle for gold will bebetween these two countries.

In football, Afghanistan has emerged as strong titlecontender. In this sport India will also face a tough chal-lenge from Bangladesh and Pakistan.In Archery Bhutanis likely to put up some challenge while in contactsports, like Boxing, Wrestling Taekwondo and Wushu,though the hosts will have an upper hand, they are like-ly to face some opposition from Pakistan , Afghanistanand Nepal. It is going to be easy for Indians inWomen’s Hockey and Football. The hosts areexpected to have smooth sailing in Badminton, Cycling,Table-Tennis, Tennis ,Handball, Swimming, Weightlifting,Kho Kho, Kabaddi, Volleyball and Triathlon.

In athletics, Sri lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh andNepal are likely to snatch some medals away from thehosts but they are unlikely to make any major differenceto India’s tally which is likely to be better than the lastedition held in Dhaka where the Games champion hadwon 175 medals(90 gold, 55 silver and 33 bronze).

Pakistan is expected to retain its second position butthe main focus will no doubt be on Afghanistan. Most ofthe Afghani sports persons are not based in their countrygiven the turbulent political and security situation. Theytrain either in Pakistan or in European countries andhave emerged as a force to reckon with in this SouthAsian region.

Afghani sports persons will be serious threat toNepal,Bangladesh and Sri Lanka who have improved invarious sports and hopefully they will show in theirperformances . It is also hoped that Maldives will alsobreak the jinx and win its first Gold in the games.

(Author is a Senior sports journalist based in NewDelhi, e-mail :palbedi@hotmail.com )

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