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ITANAGAR, 13 Apr:<\/strong> The Arunachal Olympic Association (AOA) will organise the 4th edition of the Arunachal State Games from 18-22 April.<\/p>\n The Games is a flagship multi-sport event designed to revive sports culture at the grassroots level, build a robust sporting framework, and position Arunachal Pradesh as a rising force in the Indian sporting landscape. It is supported by the Sports Department and various state-level sports associations, local organising committees, and volunteers.<\/p>\n “The AOA, in coordination with the state sports associations, will select the top 8 individual athletes in individual and combat sports, and the top 8 teams in team sports from state-level competitions conducted by the respective state sports associations,” the AOA informed in a release.<\/p>\n The Games will feature 22 competitive disciplines: archery, arm-wrestling, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, chess, curling, football, hockey, judo, karate, kho-kho, pencak silat, table tennis, taekwondo, tug of war, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu, and skating.<\/p>\n Altogether 2,400 athletes are expected to participate in the Games, besides 200 officials, 450 support staffers, 440 technical officers, and 400 volunteers.<\/p>\n Multiple high-quality venues across the Itanagar Capital Region and Papum Pare district have been selected for the competitions. They are the Golden Jubilee Stadium in Yupia; Sangey Lhaden Sports Academy in Chimpu; Indira Gandhi Park; the outdoor events convention centre;<\/p>\n the Khelo India Indoor Stadium in Itanagar; and Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Naharlagun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 13 Apr: The Arunachal Olympic Association (AOA) will organise the 4th edition of the Arunachal State Games from 18-22 April. The Games is a flagship multi-sport event designed to revive sports culture at the grassroots level, build a robust sporting framework, and position Arunachal Pradesh as a rising force in the Indian sporting landscape. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}