THURSDAY, March 28, 2024
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CP strikes deal to cater for Thai athletes at Asian Games

CP strikes deal to cater for Thai athletes at Asian Games

Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) will provide food and telecommunications support for Thai athletes at the Asian Games in August.

Professor (Special) Charoen Wattanasin, vice president and deputy chairman for marketing and rights commission of the Olympic Committee of Thailand (OCT) said CP would support safe and clean Thai food for more than 800 athletes and officials, as well as over 100 media members working in Indonesia.
 The deal means all those involved will get an international roaming SIM card so they can keep in touch with each other, as well as with their families back home.

CP strikes deal to cater for Thai athletes at Asian Games
He also added that OCT was aiming to better the 12 gold medals achieved at the 2014 Games in South Korea. 
A top-five finish in the medal table is another of the OCT’s goals.
 Kachorn Chiaravanont, Member of the Executive Committee, Charoen Pokphand Group, said: “We’ve provided food and telecommunication support to the national team since the 2016 Olympic Games, so will select only those menus that suit their tastes, which will be clean, safe, and nutritious, for all athletes.” 
One of CP’s subsidiary companies, True Corporation, will provide TrueMove H roaming SIM cards so the country’s athletes, coaches, officials and media can make phone calls, receive calls, send messages and use non-stop 4G and 3G data services during the 16-day event.
The 2018 Asian Games will take place from 18 August to 2 September in Jakarta and Palembang, when 45 nations will participate in 40 sports for a total of 462 gold medals.

 The 42 sports are  1) aquatics (swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo), 2) archery, 3) athletics, 4) badminton, 5) baseball/ softball, 6) basketball, 7) bowling, 8) boxing, 9) contract bridge, 10) canoeing-kayaking, 11) cycling, 12) equestrian, 13) fencing, 14) football, 15) golf, 16) gymnastics, 17) handball, 18) hockey, 19) jet ski, 20) judo, 21) kabaddi, 22) karate, 23) martial arts, 24) modern pentathlon, 25) paragliding, 26) rowing, 27) rugby sevens, 28) sailing, 29) sepak takraw, 30) shooting, 31) sport climbing, 32) squash, 33) table tennis, 34) taekwondo, 35) tennis, 36) triathlon, 37) volleyball, 38) weightlifting, 39) wrestling, and 40) roller sports (inline speed skating and skateboarding).

            In the past Games, Thailand won 121 gold, 159 silver and 233 bronze medals, in total. Four years ago, Thailand won 12 gold, 7 silver and 28 bronze medals, and finished sixth in Korea (with China, South Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and Iran in the top five respectively.)

CP strikes deal to cater for Thai athletes at Asian Games

 

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