#rbu_GANEFO ! GANEFO ! ... ហ្គានេហ្វូ ! ហ្គានេហ្វូ ! ...

GANEFO ! GANEFO ! ... ហ្គានេហ្វូ ! ហ្គានេហ្វូ ! ... This slogan was shouted and sung loudly in chorus by the artist troops along the human performance that artistically displayed VIVE LE GANEFO amongst other human slogans depicting the social developments of all fields the then peaceful nation had achieved to that date as the French commentator of this documentary related -- the greatness and skillful combination and harmony of Khmer architecture (of the Angkor-Era and contemporary mixture), arts, culture, ... sports, education, ... of the society, those days.

GANEFO was the first Olympic style and dimension sports events the Kingdom of Cambodia hosted in mid-sixties where sports people of Asian countries participated: កីឡាហ្គានេហ្វូអាស៊ីទី១ ។

Even though, I remember that Thailand, amongst a few others, was not accepted to join the games, according to what I read in a magazine. A cartoon at the times, in then Chief-of-State Samdech Norodom Sihanouk's figure waving his refusal to Thailand, read, " Non, nous n'acceptons pas les anciennes forces  déclinantes."

It seems that few living witnesses -- survivors of the cruelty of time in the past decades, one of them Doctor Sokhom Sovathana's father Cyclist Hero Sokhom of Asia -- reminiscence these great events of GANEFO, in Khmer កីឡា ហ្គានេហ្វូអាស៊ីទី១ whose logo was the Flame of Torch ASIA as shown in this documentary.

The Olympic National Stadium of Cambodia was in its full completion in 1966. Built from the Kingdom's finance -- with no cent of foreign loan, according to former PM In Tam -- it was the first modern sports complex facilities in South East Asia when neighboring Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia didn't have such a modern sports center to host the Olympic-calibre events as the Phnom Penh Stadium could, then.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=534292990015272&id=100003037265719៣