Preparation for 9th provincial Phu Dong sports festival boosted

The 9^th provincial Phu Dong sports festival will officially begin from Jan.23 to Mar.23 2016. Under the instruction of provincial People’s Committee, relevant agencies are boosting preparatory work for the festival…

At a recent meeting held by the Steering Board of the 9^th provincial Phu Dong sports festival, provincial Department of Education and Training (DoET) said that the organizers have basically fulfilled preparatory work for the festival.

The organizers are urgently completing procedures for upgrading synthetic running athletic tracks at provincial Stadium in order to serve the festival’s athletics with the participation of more than 1,000 athletes. After the festival, they will also be for the Region 4 Phu Dong sports festival with the participation of 13 provinces and cities.

According to Pham Anh Dung, Deputy Head of the Student-Pupil Affairs Division under provincial DoET, other jobs, including the script for the opening ceremony of the festival with nearly 12,000 participants, are also underway.

Tran Thanh Liem, Vice-Secretary of provincial Party Committee cum Permanent Vice-Chairman of provincial People’s Committee, who is also Head of the Steering Board of the festival said: The goals of the festival are to check physical education at schools during the past four years, sort out talent individuals for the province’s sports teams to attend the 2016 Region 4 Phu Dong sports festival hosted by the province and the 2016 National Phu Dong sports festival to be held in two provinces of Thanh Hoa and Nghe An. Therefore, relevant agencies need to recheck all their preparatory work to be able to ensure the best conditions pertaining to material facilities for competition, healthcare, order-security, fire fighting-prevention, propaganda…so that the 9^th provincial Phu Dong sports festival will take place successfully, creating a momentum for the locality to host the Region 4 Phu Dong sports festival as well as selecting outstanding individuals for the 2016 National Phu Dong sports festival.

This year’s Phu Dong sports festival includes 14 events: athletics, swimming, football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, Taekwondo, Vovinam, chess, shuttlecock, table tennis, gymnastics, tug of war. The sports festival is divided into 2 phases from Jan.23 to Mar.6 for the first phase and from Mar.19 to 23 for the second one. The opening ceremony of the festival is expected to take place at 18pm of Mar.19 at provincial Stadium and the closing ceremony to be held on the morning of Mar.23, 2016.

This year’s festival will absorb the participation of 34 delegations with around 11,000 athletes, including high, secondary and primary schools across the province.

Reported by Chi Thanh-Translated by K.T