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ในวันที่ 18 - 26 ตุลาคม 2008 จะมีการแข่งขัน Beach Asian Game ที่บาหลี ประเทศอินโดนีเซีย ซึ่งจะมีการแข่งขัน 10 ชนิดกีฬา คือ Marathon Swimming, Wind Surfing, Jetski, Beach Handball, Dragon Boat, Surfing, Parasailing, Beach Soccer, Beach Volleyball and Triathlon.


Emblem


The shining sun comes from the emblem of the Olympic Council of Asia and represents its vital role in Asia's sport development and spreading energy created by the solidarity of the OCA. The design of the emblem is based on two "pura", an image of the gate to the house of God which represents the ultimate hospitality of the Bali society in honoring and welcoming people from all over Asia. The two big waves in completing the design, representing the commitment as well as the enthusiasm of the host city to run the Asian Beach Games. All together the simple design in blue color will served as a solid foundation for future Asian Beach Games.


Mascot


The concept of the Mascot is based on "Djalak Bali" the specific bird you can only find in Bali island. it symbolized that Bali with its specialty will organize the Asian Beach Games professionally. An endangered species, the mascot serves a reminder to the world the bird is beautiful but yet sacred.


นับแต่มีการบรรจุไตรกีฬาเข้าแข่งขันในโอลิมปิคที่ซิดนี่ ออสเตรเลีย เมื่อปี 2000 เป็นต้นมา ไตรกีฬาก็รุ่งเรืองต่อมาเป็นลำดับ และได้รับบรรตุให้แข่งขันในซีเกมส์ที่ฟิลิปีนส์ เอเชี่ยนเกมส์ที่โดฮา และจะยืนหยัดต่อไปในระดับนานาชาติ


นักไตรกีฬาทีมชาติไทยจะต้องพัฒนาฝีมือด้วยความทุ่มเท มุ่งมั่น และฟันฝ่า ให้ก้าวหน้าทัดเทียมกับนานาชาติ

หลังจากเสร็จสิ้นการฝึกเพื่อเตรียมการแข่งขัน Sea Games ครั้งที่ 24 ที่ประเทศไทยเป็นเจ้าภาพในวันที่ 5 - 15 ธันวาคม 2550 นี้แล้ว จะปล่อยให้นักกีฬาทีมชาติพัก 2 สัปดาห์ จากนั้นจะเรียกเข้ามาเก็บตัวเตรียมการฝึกเพื่อเข้าร่วมการแข่งขันทันที

Beach Handball

Beach Handball is a team sport where two teams pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. The game is similar to team handball, but is not played in a sports hall, but on sand instead. Matches are played in two or three sets depending on when a team wins their second set of the game.


Beach Volleyball

Beach Volleyball is a popular sport in which two teams of two, positioned on either side of a net, hit a ball back and forth over the net, usually using the hands or arms. The most important differences is that beach volleyball is played on sand courts.


Beach Soccer

Beach Soccer is a variant of the sport of football played on beaches. The irregularity of the soft-sand playing surface leads to a style of play where players must improvise. The compact pitch (measuring 28 x 37 meter) allows players to score from anywhere.




Dragon Boat

A Dragon Boat is a very long and narrow human powered boat used in the team paddling sport or Dragon boat racing which originated in China. For racing events, dragon boats are always rigged with decorative Chinese dragon heads and tails and are required to carry a large drum aboard.


Jet Ski

Jet-Ski Sport is an extreme competition on a type of a personal watercraft similar to motorbikes. The sports (Jet Ski Sporting) can involve racing to adrenaline-pumping freestyle contest.


Marathon Swimming

Marathon Swimming is a form of open water swimming that involves swimming across large bodies of open water such as the lakes, sea, and ocean The swims can be in the open sea, ocean, lakes, rivers or other watercourses.




Beach Sepaktakraw

Beach Sepaktakraw, a cross between soccer and volleyball, is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan synthetic ball and only allows players to use their feet and head to touch the ball across a volleyball-type net.


Paragliding

Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport using a free-flying, foot-launched aircraft. The pilot sits in a harness suspended below a fabric wing, whose shape is formed by the pressure of air entering vents in the front of the wing.


Surfing

Surfing is a surface water sport in which the participant is carried by a breaking wave usually on a surfboard toward the shore. Additional Tow-in surfing to tow the surfer onto the wave is necessary where standard paddling is unwise due to the waves rapid forward motion.




Triathlon

Triathlon is an athletic event consisting of swimming, cycling and running over various distances. In most modern triathlons, these events are placed back-to-back in immediate sequence and a competitor's official time includes the time required between the individual legs of the race, including any time necessary for changing clothes and shoes.


Sailing

Sailing is a surface water sport using a boat and her sails. It uses only the wind and water to increase, maintain or decrease her speed. The crew may adjust the trim and sails and hull and perform other act of seamanship, but shall not move their bodies, and or the rudder to proped the boat. Boats in sailing are divided into Monohull Dinghy, Keel Boat and Multihull.


Windsurfing

Windsurfing is a surface water sport using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by a single sail. The sport combines rules and aspects of both sailing and surfing, along with certain athletic aspects shared with other board sports like skateboarding, snowboarding, waterskiing, and wakeboarding.




Body Building

In Competitive Body Building, bodybuilders aspire to develop and maintain an aesthetically pleasing (by bodybuilding standards) body and balanced physique. The competitors show off their bodies by performing a number of poses - bodybuilders spend time practicing their posing as this has a large effect on how they are judged.




Woodball

Woodball is a ball sport, in which the playing-ball would not fly up (appropriate to be played on the grass ground). The game includes ball, mallet and gate, and had been adopted as one of the physical education courses in some colleges right after the next year of its appearance in 1990.