Category: This Sporting Life

December 24 2014 This Sporting Life wishes season greetings for the festive season Christmas Kuninganand Prophets Birthday and happy 2015 to its readers MOTORING NEWS BALI FORMULA ONE CIRCUIT The idea of a Formula One motoring circuit in Bali is back in the news Over the last 15 years or so This Sporting Life has seen proposals for a circuit ranging from Jembrana West Bali Pulau Serengan Turtle Island and the Bukit come and go Now we see the management of Indonesian National Sports Committee KONI Bali urging the Ministry of Youth and Sports Kemenpora to build a Moto GP and F1 racing circuit in Bali Although not yet approved by the relevant Minister apparently the provincial government of Bali has debated the development ldquoWe strongly support the cons

December 10 2014 INDOOR CRICKET NEWS 2015 BALI INDOOR CRICKET LEAGUE ndash Season III The 3rd season of the Bali Indoor Cricket League began on Sunday 30th November and as usual in sync with the beginning of the rainy season This season sees the league growing to 8 teams with 2 Denpasar High School teams SMA5 SMK2 joining the returning teams including the Defending Champions The Geckos Denpasar CC Bali United CC BSF Cricket Academy Flying Cooks and the guys from Canggu Inaugural Champions now known as the Bali Lost Boys Each round played fortnightly will see 4 games played from 11am to 5pm with each team playing each other once before the SemiFinals and the Grand Final on the 22nd March And a first for Indonesia will see the beginning

November 26 2014 As 2014 comes to a closeThis Sporting Life will start highlighting the upcoming events in 2015 so any event organizer is welcome to send details of their sports event to infobaliadvertiserbiz or infobalisportsmagcom for publication in this column TENNIS NEWS As regularly reported in this column the lack of success by Indonesia in the international sports arena can often be traced to the NSAs National Sports Associations and their inability for whatever reason to nurture and support Indonesian sports talent Case in point Balis own Tami Grende Indonesias best junior tennis player whose talents were considered not good enough by the Indonesian Tennis Association PELTI to include her in the Indonesian team for the recent Youth Olympics in China but good enough to be noticed half a world away by t

November 12 2014 NETBALL NEWS More than 200 longlegged beauties representing16 teams from Singapore Thailand Australia and Indonesia jetted in to Bali to take part in the SPURS Bali Flames Netball Invitational 2014 on 25 October the largest Netball tournament in Bali to date The tournament has been held at Bali International School annually since 2007 when it started with just a few teams playing some social netball in between shopping and pampering It has developed into a fullday roundrobin with simultaneous games on four courts and backtoback games across four divisions The competition was fierce but it was the Singaporeans and New Zealanders who took home the honours The A Division Grand Final was held between The Bangkok Barbarians a team of expatriates living in Thailand and Paua Rose a team of Kiwirsquo