Asian Games 2014 – May the best man and woman win
The fastest, strongest, ablest athletes from Asia come together every four years to participate in the continent’s greatest sporting spectacle — the Asian Games.
The games are a distant cousin of the Far Eastern Games, held for the first time in the Philippines in 1913. But the Asian Games as we know them today made their debut in New Delhi, India, in 1951. Only 11 countries took part the first time around. By the time they reached their 16th edition in Guangzhou, China, in 2010 — 45 countries and regions participated.
The torch of the games has now passed on to the beautiful South Korean city of Incheon— a metropolis of nearly 3 million people not very far from capital Seoul.
Over 16 days—from September 19 to October 4—Incheon will host 20,000 participants, including 13,000 athletes, from 45 countries and regions across this vast continent, and capture the imagination of Asia and the world.
The official slogan of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games wonderfully captures the spirit and sporting tradition behind them—“Diversity Shines Here”.
Reference: www.incheon2014ag.org; Media reports
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