Port Blair, Feb 04: A Triathlon Competition will be held on 06 February for participants of MILAN 2014. The Triathlon competition is being held for the first time in MILAN as sports unfailingly engender camaraderie and espirit-de-corps which also is the underlying aim of MILAN.
‘Triathlon’ is derived from the Greek words treis (three) and athlos (contest). Thus, a Triathlon has three disciplines consisting of swimming, cycling, running. These three segments are to be covered without a break.
The MILAN 2014 Triathlon Championship will commence at Ross Island with a swimming race. A distance of 1.2 km will be covered by the competitors and finish at the Aberdeen Jetty. The competitors will then do a cycling race of nearly 12 km from Aberdeen Jetty to Kamraj Nagar. The final segment of the Triathlon will be a cross-country race of over a distance of 4 kilometersfrom Kamraj Nagar to the Birchgunj Military Station. The event can be witnessed by the public between Aberdeen Jetty to Kamraj Nagar.
A Telegamescompetition will be held at the Birchgunj Military Station for personnel from the participating foreign ship on completion of the Triathlon. The Telegames are aimed at the fun aspects of games rather than a competitive aspect, and will consist of novel games kike ‘Goofy Stick’, ‘Passing the Water Balloon’ and ‘Three-Legged Race’.
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