From the story of Thailand to borrow a car: Vietnam almost lost the SEA Games gold medal because lending to Malaysia

In the morning of February 6, the truck carrying the equipment of the Vietnamese bicycle team, including the entire bicycle, had an accident and burned on the transport road. This makes the Vietnamese team at risk of not being able to play, because there is no car to race. Facing that situation, the Thai host has supported.

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Thailand lends 27 cars to Vietnam to meet the competition standards

27 loan racing bikes, and 18 sets of hats, shoes and pedal awarded by Thailand have helped Vietnamese athletes can play on February 7. The Vietnam Motorbike – Sports Bike Federation has thanked Thailand as well as the Organizing Committee. This also recalled a beautiful story of Vietnam, as the host country SEA Games 2003 in the past.

22 years ago, shooting was one of the first competitions of the 2003 SEA Games. Besides Thailand and Singapore, Malaysian gunners were also a formidable opponent compared to Vietnamese hosts. But before an important content, Malaysia is at risk of being eliminated because they do not know where the team's gun is lost on the road to Vietnam.

The urgent situation of the competition content has made Vietnamese hosts make an important decision. The Vietnamese side has mobilized an emergency of a sports gun to qualify for competition, in order to support the Malaysian team to use the competition. This accidentally made Vietnamese sports almost lose 1 gold medal.

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Gunner Cao Son is one of the Vietnamese shooters at the 2003 SEA Games – Photo FBNV

The number of guns borrowed by Malaysian Gunners has soon shown that they are “genuine”. In the first half of the competition, the Malaysian gunner continued to lead. It was not until the last shooting, the Vietnamese team to overcome the final gold medal.

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