The Cambodian sports delegation officially completed its participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in France and returned home on the afternoon of August 14. They were warmly welcomed by Deputy Prime Minister Thong Khon, president of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), and other sports officials at Phnom Penh International Airport (PNH). Despite their efforts, the three Cambodian athletes could not surpass their personal bests during the competitions, which began on July 26 and concluded on August 11. Nevertheless, Khon praised their hard work and the Cambodian delegation’s ability to uphold the nation’s honour. “Participating in the Olympics…
Author: Chhorn Norn
A total of 15 Cambodian sporting officials, athletes and coaches will travel to the 2024 Olympic Games in France, which are scheduled to take place in Paris from July 26 to August 11. During a July 17 meeting with the team at the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) headquarters, Thorn Khon, Senior Minister in charge of promoting the development of sports and NOCC president, explained that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has made a number of reforms to the games, in order to strengthen its global identity and promote sustainable competition. He instructed the assembled delegates to review the…
Cambodian kickboxing legend Keo Rumchong has expressed his hopes that Kan Meng Hong will claim victory at this weekend’s K-1 World MAX 2024 – World Championship Tournament Final, in Tokyo, Japan. Meng Hong is scheduled to take on Japanese fighter Akihiro Kaneko in the Super Bantamweight 55 kg world champ quarterfinals on July 7. Rumchong, who attended the K-1 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan in 2020 and defeated a Japanese fighter, explained how the kickboxing rules of the K-1 championship will suit the young fighter. Matches are contested over three rounds, and elbow strikes are banned, as are head butts…
Rithy Emma, a French athlete with a Khmer heart, displayed all the courage of the Kingdom’s finest warriors in her Saturday night defeat of dangerous Iranian fighter Nazanin Hoseini. In the same Channel 5 event, returning great Lek Vibol knocked out Lao fighter Chhangfasit in the second round to claim victory in his first comeback match since his retirement some 20 years ago. Emma narrowly escaped being knocked out in round one of the match, suffering terrible wounds before coming back to claim victory. In round one of her June 15 match – her first with raw wraps instead of…
Newly appointed Khmer Boxing Federation president Lieutenant General Khov Chhay has announced that as long as he remains in the post, well-known Lethwei exponent Dave Leduc will not be allowed to compete in Cambodia. Chhay was elected by the federation’s executive committee on March 29, replacing former president Tem Moeun. Chhay said the decision was in response to a social media post by the champion of the Myanmar style of boxing, who wrote, “I need $1 million if you want me to fight again. I will knock out Muay Thai fighters because I think Muay Thai copied Khmer martial arts.…
The Phnom Penh Post, the longest-running English language newspaper in Cambodia, has been in print since 1992, and become a Monday-to-Friday daily in 2008. The Khmer language Post Khmer was added the following year, ensuring the publication could reach foreign and Cambodia readers. Although both the English and Khmer editions will cease to appear in print at the end of March, the online presence of The Post will remain as the “newspaper of record”, providing a window through which the world can view the true situation on the ground in Cambodia. Its in-depth coverage includes the latest sporting news, with…
The Kun Khmer International Federation (KKIF) and the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), as well as several other relevant parties, are drawing up a code of ethics for the global expansion of the sport. The code will provide guidelines for how countries around the world can form their own national federations, in order to promote the Kingdom’s national martial art more widely. The planning was discussed at last week KKIF executive committee meeting, chaired by KKIF head Meam Ra, at the NOCC headquarters in Phnom Penh. After deliberations, the participants agreed to draw up a Kun Khmer code of…