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This December, get ready for the 25th annual SEA Games or Southeast Asian Games — gathering over 5,000 athletes from the best teams in 11 countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Timor Leste, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mayanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) in a colorful and exciting week-long Southeast Asia championship.

Until 1975, the SEA Games were called the South East Asian Peninsular Games. When Indonesia and the Philippines were accepted as members, the name changed to to South East Asian Games.

Today the SEA Games test the mettle of top players in soccer, volleyball, cycling, judo, taekwondo and dozens of other sports.

In all, 390 gold medals will be in contention during the nine-day event being hosted in 2009 by Laos from December 9 to December 18, 2009 and broadcast broadcast live on 14 television channels in six countries.

On the Web, catch all the action at sites featuring pictures, news and updates, scores and schedules, story articles and a bit of history on the Southeast Asian Games...

2009 Sea Games - The official site with all the latest news, sports overviews, official venues, the complete December schedule, photo gallery, Sea Games history & fun facts.

2009 Southeast Asian Games - From Wikipedia with encylopedic knowledge of the competition including highlights, behind-the-scenes politics, history, photos, related links.

25th SEA Games - Daily blogs featuring news, feature stories on star athletes, photos, discussion boards, live chat.

2009 SEA Games News - The latest headlines on the SEA Games progress gathered from various sources around the Web.

also see -> FIFA World Cup

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