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Thailand vs Indonesia- Women's Volleyball Live and Replay

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Watch Thailand vs Indonesia- Women's Volleyball SEA Games Semi-Finals Live and Replay. Thailand is the reigning SEA Games Gold MEdalist while Indonesia is the Bronze  Medalist. Thailans is the Gold Medalist in SEA Games since 2007.

April Manganang of Indonesia sparks Gender Test Controversy

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Indonesian Women's Volleyball player, April Manganang sparks contoversy after playing agains Philippines on Wednesday.

A gender row hit the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games on Tuesday after the Philippines demanded that organisers carry out tests on a women's volleyball player from Indonesia.

A 23-year old spiker from North Sulawesi, Manganang was given the green light to compete pending the result of her gender test, which became the subject of controversy after the Philippines filed a formal protest before SEA Games organizers.

In an online report written in Bahasa, it states that Manganang's parents, Zambrut Manganang and Suryati Lano Bori, were poor and she tried to escape poverty by playing basketball. Then, she shifted to volleyball for economic reasons.

"I play volleyball in village tournaments to bring money for my family," she said, adding that the first payment she got from playing in a village tournament was a pack of boiled noodles and eggs.
A team official confirmed reports that the Philippines had asked for a gender test on Aprilia Santini Manganang of Indonesia, 23, ahead of their game on Wednesday. Please read full story, HERE!


Meanwhile, the Philippine protest urging a gender test for Manganang has been denied by Singaporean Southeast Asian Games organizers, according to Larong Volleyball ng Pilipinas, Inc. president Joey Romasanta.

“They (the organizers) told us there was not enough material time to conduct the gender test on the Indonesian,” said Romasanta on the sidelines of the PH-Indonesia women’s volleyball match at the OCBC Arena here on Wednesday

Romasanta added that he was informed by the SEAG Organizing Committee thatit was only following the certification given by the International Volleyball Federation, known by its French acronym FIVB, clearing Santini to compete in an earlier FIVB-sanctioned competition.

The volleyball head, who is also the Philippine Olympic Committee First Vice President, said that he did know the competition where the Indon had been clearance by the FIVB.

Romasanta said the alternative was to place the game against Indonesia under protest, but was prevailed upon here by a Filipino FIVB official, who requested not to be identified, not to pursue it because “the FIVB has already spoken on the matter.”

National women’s coach Roger Gorayeb had earlier requested the Philippine contingent file a protest against Manganang because of her masculine-looking appearance and physique.





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