Vietnamese athletes keep practising and be ready for the SEA Games although petanque has indeed been banned from the regional biennial sporting festival by the World Petanque and Bowls Federation (WPBF) recently.
The Vietnamese team were third in the men''s regu event after losing 2-0 to the hosts in the semi-final match at the ASTAF Sepak Takraw Asian Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Vietnamese riders will be loaned racing bikes and will get compensation from the 2025 Asian Road Cycling Championships'' organising committee after their bicycles were destroyed ahead of the tournament.
Vietnamese bodybuilders won two gold medals at the seventh WBPF World
Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championships that ended in Bangkok, Thailand,
on November 30.
Ton Hoang Khanh Lan won three gold medals at the 18th National
Bodybuilding Championships, which concluded in the southern Dong Nai
province over the weekend.
Adding three more gold medals to her tally, Army swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh
Vien powered her way to 16 gold medals at the National Swimming
Championships on the concluding day.
Viet Nam''s top female swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien won a gold medal and
broke the CISM Military World Games'' record in the women''s 200 medley
final in South Korea yesterday.