the next big china event

bababardwan
 October 10, 2010 at 09:26 AM posted in General Discussion

2008 brought us the Beijing Olympics and this year we've had Shanghai Expo. So what's to be the next big China event? Anything on the horizon?

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bodawei
 October 10, 2010 at 01:39 PM

The 16th Asian Games, in Guangzhou, in 32 days.

This year they include 20-20 板球!

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bodawei
 October 10, 2010 at 11:37 PM

In recent decades I see that the medal winning honours go 1. China, 2. South Korea, and 3. Japan. India may also rate the Commonwealth Games higher because it gets more success?

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bababardwan
 October 10, 2010 at 08:44 PM

thanks mate. Here's a wiki article on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Asian_Games

I guess this is the Asian equivalent of our Commonwealth Games. I would normally ask if it's as big as the Commonwealth Games, but with many seats empty in Delhi, I guess it'd have to be [though that doesn't stop interest from telly watchers...though here even that has been down and there is talk of advertisers getting compensation from the tv station]. Obviously there are some countries like Malaysia for example, that participate in both Games. I wonder which ones the athletes hold in higher esteem [or maybe they're considered equally important?] ? I guess India this time around at least would hold the Commonwealth Games higher given they're the hosts.