Saturday, July 13, 2013

17th ASIAN GAMES INCHEON 2014

Duration : September 19, 2014 - October 4, 2014 (16 days)
Venues : In and around Incheon Metropolitan City
Participants : About 13,000 athletes and officials, and about 7,000 broad-casting personnel from the 45 OCA member states
Staff : About 30,000 people will be woking
Patron : The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)
Host: The 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee (IAGOC)
Number of Sports : 28 Olympic events + 8 non-Olympic events = Total of 36 events

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Venues

Some 103 venues will be use during the Games, with 49 are competition venues with 23 of them being newly built.The Games also consist two athletes and media villages.
The main stadium, known as Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, has an all-seater capacity of 61,000 seats, with 30,000 seats are variable after the Games.The US$400 million stadium, who originally planned for 70,000 seats was designed by Populous, who has also designed several event venues around the world, including the Olympic Stadium of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 28, 2011 in Yeonhui-dong, with construction beginning in June 2011 and expected to finish in April 2014.
This is a partial list of newly constructed venues for the Games:
 

Asian Games 2k14

The 2014 Asian Games, officially known as the XVII Asiad, is the largest sporting event in Asia governed by Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). It is scheduled to take place in Incheon, South Korea from September 19 – October 4, 2014,[1] with 437 events in 36 sports and disciplines set to feature in the Games.
Incheon was awarded the right on April 17, 2007, defeated Delhi, India to host the Games. Incheon is the third city in South Korea after Seoul (1986) and Busan (2002) to host the Asian Games