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Moving SEA Games out of the kampung to the modern era
The region's showpiece event needs to have more consistency in number of sports to move ahead
Competitive sport is often a numbers game - athletes aim to beat records and personal bests by a fraction of a second, a millimetre; teams fight for points; countries want to win as many medals as they can at a major Games.
It is also about consistency - they want be at their best for as long as possible.
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