|
JAKARTA, July 14 (Xinhua) -- A total of 28 Indonesian athletes are to take part in the Olympics in Rio de Jeneiro of Brazil from August 5-21, a sports official said here on Thursday.
The athletes will vie in seven sports, namely badminton, swimming, weightlifting, archery, athletics, rowing and cycling, said Lukman Niode, deputy chief of Satlak Prima task force which is in charge of the athletes selection.
"Now we have to resume the tradition of having gold medals in Olympics," he said in a statement.
Twenty five out of the 28 athletes have passed qualification for the Olympics and the rest take wildcards for the Rio Games, Niode said.
In 2012, Indonesia sent 22 athletes to the London Olympics with 19 of them passing qualifications and the rest with wildcards.
Badminton and weightlifting have contributed the most to Indonesia's gold medals in the past Olympics. Indonesia earned gold medals since 1992 Olympics in badminton, but they failed to get one in 2012 London Games.
