Shanghai Daily
The Cambodian athletes are facing many difficulties such as bad meals, low subsidy and few coaches, which lead to poor achievements in international sports events, local media reported today.
Cambodian athletes mainly come from poor families, so they were underfed from a child, the Cambodia Sin Chew Daily newspaper said, citing sports analysts.
An athlete of the national team has only 15,000 riels (about US$3.75) per day as meal fees, some analysts said, adding that it should be increased to 25,000 riels (about US$6.25).
Many athletes have to do part-time jobs because the subsidy of 120,000 riels (about US$30) a month is not enough for them to make a living, they said.
As a result, the Cambodian athletes can not concentrate on their trainings therefore they are not able to get good scores in games, they added.
In addition, Cambodian national teams can not afford to employ good coaches because of lack of money, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, Thong Khon, Cambodian Tourism Minister and President of the Cambodian Olympic Committee, said that the government will try to improve the training condition of athletes and help them to have better performance.
Cambodia will be well prepared for the Southeast Asian Games in 2009 and the Asian Games in 2010 to win more medals, Thong Khon said.
The Cambodian athletes have won 93 medals in all from various international sports events since 1993, including 18 medals in the Southeast Asian Games in 2007.
Cambodian athletes mainly come from poor families, so they were underfed from a child, the Cambodia Sin Chew Daily newspaper said, citing sports analysts.
An athlete of the national team has only 15,000 riels (about US$3.75) per day as meal fees, some analysts said, adding that it should be increased to 25,000 riels (about US$6.25).
Many athletes have to do part-time jobs because the subsidy of 120,000 riels (about US$30) a month is not enough for them to make a living, they said.
As a result, the Cambodian athletes can not concentrate on their trainings therefore they are not able to get good scores in games, they added.
In addition, Cambodian national teams can not afford to employ good coaches because of lack of money, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, Thong Khon, Cambodian Tourism Minister and President of the Cambodian Olympic Committee, said that the government will try to improve the training condition of athletes and help them to have better performance.
Cambodia will be well prepared for the Southeast Asian Games in 2009 and the Asian Games in 2010 to win more medals, Thong Khon said.
The Cambodian athletes have won 93 medals in all from various international sports events since 1993, including 18 medals in the Southeast Asian Games in 2007.
7 comments:
Cambodia is not lack of money.. look around Phnom Pehn.. Money is eveywhere. Its in the SUV, nightclub, new construction for the CPP, and in the salary of high ranking officials and their staff.
It's how Cambodia choose to spend its money and where its spent.
Hey, that is a private and individual matter and nobody else's business.
9:52 you have made a good point. The Khmer government is shortsighted in many aspects of solving serious issues facing Cambodia. This government is dangerous to all who move against it. It is more like a team of gangster and not a gov' of a sovereign country. The neighboring countries love to molest it because this Khmer gov' is full of weak minded leaders.
The cambodian government is not only weak minded, but full of morons and idiots.
For the international sport events, the officials who chair the sport committees don't hesitate to take, under national budget, their family, relatives and mistresses to be part of the trip so that they can enjoy tourism for free. But nothing is done to encourage the athletes, even the reward.
The idiots and morons speak a lot, but nothing happens. If they speak about reward, trust me, they will find a way to divert the reward.
As idiots are stubborns, they are not even ashame that the cambodian atheletes lose not only the competition but faces toward other countries.
As morons, they don't give a shit about national pride. Because the pride does not bring money.
They spend only energey to find ways to beg for money, to divert money and spend money. Athletes are not valuable fot them, not part of the country's asset.
But, for the meanwhile, a lot of SUV, night clubs, casinos, advisors,rapes in the countryside, poverty, increasing of gangs and violence, prostitutes and alcohol flooding everywhere.
Anyway, if the majority of local cambodians are morons, they will vote for the same morons. We deserve the leaders that we vote for. If the majority in the country is not able to think smartly and vote for the same monkeys, it is the fate of the idiot population to suffer...period.
Cambodia is a country full of morons, and it is not tommorrow that it will stop. At least, we are number one in idiocratie, so for July, let's vote for the same in order to maintain this idiocratie that favor the good life of the lesser idiots among the idiots.
Nonesense, fact of the matter is our athletes today have won more medals than any previous governments of the past. So what's your point? You are not trying to tell us that you can do better, are you?
sports lovers, yall need to sponsor these guys so they have adequate nutrition to compete. can't win if they are weak!
Okay, but don't get them too fat, alright?
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