Powerful Typhoon Kammuri forced organisers of the Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines to reschedule about half of the events set for Tuesday, but they pledged the competition would finish on time.
"It's not safe to play and we apologise," Ramon Suzara, the organising committee's chief operating officer, told a news conference, announcing the rescheduling. Organisers stressed that the Games, which opened Saturday, won't"go beyond its scheduled finish on December 11". Triathlon and duathlon events in Subic -- on the west coast of the main island of Luzon in the country's north -- had already been brought forward.
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