Since its admission into the Southeast Asian Games Federation fold in 1977, the Philippines has so far been chosen as venue of the biennial meet among the region’s best and brightest athletes thrice.

Uncertainty as to whether to push through with the event marked the preparations in the three times the Games were held here. The first time the country was to play host of the Games’ 11th edition in 1981, for instance, proved to be trying a task for he hosts in Manila, which was to experience staging a multi-event competitions of that magnitude for the first time since the bigger Second Asian Games in 1954.

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