SEA Games 29 continues to encounter problems: It's the turn of the bus carrying athletes to cause accidents

August 22, 2017 10:41

The 29th SEA Games have just begun, but the host country Malaysia is facing criticism for its problematic organization.

Bus carrying athletes had an accident

The incident, considered a rare one in the history of the SEA Games, happened yesterday when two buses carrying squash athletes crashed into each other on the way to Bukit Jalil Stadium. Images from the scene of the collision showed that one bus had a cracked windshield and a dented front end.

13 Thai athletes, 10 Myanmar athletes and 5 Indonesian athletes were lucky to escape the jaws of death and were taken to the stadium by special vehicles. 8 of the 28 athletes above were slightly injured, 2 Myanmar athletes among them decided to retire due to psychological trauma and injuries affecting their ability to compete for medals.

The organizers then postponed the morning matches, only to reschedule them in the late afternoon.

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Bus carrying SEA Games athletes had an accident.

Indonesian hackers attack Malaysian website

Despite Malaysia's apology for the misprinting of the Indonesian flag at the 29th SEA Games, a group of Indonesian hackers decided to "take revenge". Accordingly, this IT gang attacked many Malaysian websites, destroyed the data system and left a strong message: "Our national flag is not a toy".

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Malaysia Football Federation website screen was attacked.

The incident that Malaysia caused at the 2017 SEA Games also caused a strong reaction on social networks and among Indonesian people. The Minister of Youth and Sports of Malaysia, Khairy Jamaluddin, had to apologize to his Indonesian counterparts for this serious mistake. Before the above attack, in 2014, the websites of the Malaysian and Vietnamese football federations were also "visited" by hackers after the semi-final match of the AFF Cup.

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The Indonesian flag was mistakenly printed as the Polish flag.

The bus is constantly late and takes the wrong route.

Almost all teams participating in the women's football tournament were affected by the shuttle bus arrangements of the Organizing Committee. The Myanmar women's team had to wait for hours at the stadium to wait for a bus to the hotel until 11:40 p.m. The question was, Myanmar had just won 5-0 against the host Malaysia, so was the incident an accident?

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Buses are constantly late in Malaysia.

BTC also could not arrange vehicles to the training ground for the Vietnamese and Thai women's Futsal teams...

Goalkeeper Kieu Trinh of the Vietnamese women's football team once shared that the bus carrying the team, even though it was escorted by police, went around in circles and returned to the starting point to begin the "endless" journey to the stadium.

The U22 Vietnam boys had to practice nearly 1 hour later than planned because the team bus arrived late and the volunteer leader assigned by the organizing committee did not know the exact location of the team's practice.

According to VOV

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