2010 Asian Games

XVI Asian Games

Logo of the 2010 Asian Games
Host city Guangzhou, China
Motto Thrilling Games, Harmonious Asia
(Chinese: 激情盛会，和谐亚洲)
Nations participating 45
Athletes participating 9,704
Events 476 in 42 sports
Opening ceremony November 12
Closing ceremony November 27
Officially opened by Premier Wen Jiabao
Athlete's Oath Fu Haifeng
Torch Lighter He Chong
Main venue Guangdong Olympic Stadium
Website gz2010.cn/en
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2010 Asian Games

The 2010 Asian Games, also known as the XVI Asiad, was a multi-sport event celebrated in Guangzhou, China from November 12 to 27, 2010. Guangzhou was the second Chinese city to host the Games, after Beijing in 1990. A total of 9,704 athletes from 45 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 476 events from 42 sports and disciplines (28 Olympic sports and 14 non-Olympic sports), making it the largest event in the history of the Games. Due to reductions in the number of sports to be contested for the 2014 Asian Games, these Games marked the final time that six non-Olympic events would be held during the Asian Games.

The Games were co-hosted by Dongguan, Foshan and Shanwei, the three neighbouring cities. A total of 53 venues were used to host the events including 11 constructed for use at the Games. The design concept of the official logo of these Asian Games was based on the legend about the Guangzhou, featured a stylised calligraphic "Stone Statue of Five Goats in Yuexiu Hill", a symbol of the host city.[1]

The opening and closing ceremonies were held along the Pearl River in Haixinsha Island, and was the first time in history that the opening ceremony for a major sports event was not held inside a stadium. The final medal tally was led by China, followed by South Korea and third place Japan. China set a new Games record with 199 gold medals.[2] Three World and 103 Asian records were broken.[3] In addition, the badminton men's singles gold medalist Lin Dan was voted as most valuable player (MVP).[4] The President of Olympic Council of Asia Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah hailed the Games as "outstanding" and "one of the best ever".[5]

Organisation

Bid

A map of China with Gunagzhou marked in the south east of the country.
Guangzhou
Location of Guangzhou in China.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) selected Guangzhou to host the 2010 Games at their 23rd general assembly session in Doha, Qatar, site of the 2006 Asian Games, on July 1, 2004.[6] Seoul and Amman dropped out before their bids were officially selected by the OCA, leaving only two candidate cities— Guangzhou and Kuala Lumpur. Seoul withdrew after considering the short span of time between 2002 and 2010, as South Korea hosted the 2002 Games in Busan.[7] Evaluation committee of the OCA, headed by the then vice-president of the association Celso Dayrit inspected both the final bidders. Kuala Lumpur was forced to withdraw its bid after the declaration of the Malaysian Government on April 15, 2004 that it wouldn't support the Olympic Council of Malaysia with a Kuala Lumpur bid, due to the high cost of hosting the Games, leaving Guangzhou as the sole bidder.[8][9]

Marketing

The official emblem of the Games was unveiled at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall on November 26, 2006. It is a stylized representation of Guangzhou's "Statue of the Five Goats" (五羊雕像) fused with a running track. The goat, in Chinese tradition, is a blessing and brings people luck while the host city Guangzhou is known as the "City of Goats".[10] The orange and yellow emblem also resembles a flame.

Official mascot of 2010 Asian Games

The mascots of the Games were the five sporty rams. They were unveiled on April 28, 2008 at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Convention and Exhibition Center.[11][12] The five rams, including four small with one large, were named– A Xiang (祥), A He (和), A Ru (如), A Yi (意) and Le Yangyang (樂洋洋). The Chinese character "yang," or "goat," is an auspicious symbol because, when read together, the Chinese names of the five rams are a message of blessing, literally meaning "harmony, blessings, success and happiness" (祥和如意樂洋洋).[13]

The official theme song was released on September 30, 2010, and is called "Reunion" (in Chinese, "Chongfeng" [重逢]). It was composed by Wu Liqun, with lyrics written by Xu Rongkai, while the English version was translated by Chen Ning Yang, a Chinese-American physicist, and his wife, Weng Fan. The song was also performed by Sun Nan and Bella Yao (姚贝娜).[14] Sun Nan then performed it again with Mao Amin for a music video.[15]

Financing

On March 11, 2005, Lin Shusen, then party secretary of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said the Games "will not cost more than ￥2 billion",[16] in stark contrast to an earlier report, which had claimed that the cost could exceed ￥200 billion.[17]

In March 2009, the director of the marketing department of the Games, Fang Da’er, claimed that the Games were short of funds, due to lack of sponsorship and the global financial crisis.[18] An informal estimate put the Games' expenditure at about US$420 million and revenue at US$450 million.[19]

On October 13, 2010, Wan Qingliang, mayor of Guangzhou at the time, officially revealed in a press conference that the total cost of staging the Asian Games and Asian Para Games is about ￥122.6 billion ($18.37 billion), with ￥109 billion spent on the city's infrastructure, ￥6.3 billion on the venues and some ￥7.3 billion spent on Games' operation.[20]

The full spending details would be released before 2013, according to the city's finance chief Zhang Jieming.[21]

Venues

A far view of a stadium, with two large sitting pavilions and greenery around the compound.
Guangdong Olympic Stadium used for all the athletics events

A total of 53 competition venues and 17 training venues were used for the Games, with four venues located outside of Guangzhou. Events took place at 42 pre-existing venues; eleven competition venues and one training venues were constructed for the Games, while the rest were renovated. Other venues included the Asian Games Town, which consists of the Athletes' Village, Technical Officials' Village, Media Village, Main Media Center and International Broadcast Center.[22] Organisers revealed that the total investment was over ￥15 billion.[23]

On April 19, 2009, organisers chose Haixinsha Island, along with the Pearl River, as the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, the only venue which was not for competition purposes.[24]

Transport

A dark blue color train with some advertising displays, in between green shrubs and two electricity cable holder poles, in the background some buildings appear
MTR KTT decorated to promote the Games.

Guangzhou's public transportation infrastructure was expanded significantly as a part of the preparation for the Games. Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport had been upgraded, in contracted to Crisplant (former FKI Logistex), to support massive volume of passengers.[25] A new Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway was opened on December 26, 2009, shorten the travel time between two destinations.[26]

In order to ease the traffic congestion and air pollution, the government ordered 40 percent reduction of vehicles and offered 1,000 buses during the Games and Para Games.[27][28] The government also had a free-ride offer for public transportation during the month of Games, but cancelled one week prior to the Games due to overwhelming response from the citizens.[29][30] Instead, government offered ￥150 ($21) cash subsidies to each household with permanent residence for commuting purposes.[31]

Torch relay

Torch relay route

Two torch designs were short-listed in September 2009 for the 2010 Asian Games. A design named "The Tide" was chosen over one named "Exploit" by the organizers as the torch of the Games. "The Tide" weighs 98 g and is 70 cm long, and is tall and straight in shape, while dynamic in terms of image.[32][33]

The torch relay route was unveiled on March 4, 2010. Due to financial reasons it remained within the confines of Guangdong province and was planned to travel across 21 major cities of the province.[34] The flame of the torch was lit at the Great Wall of China on October 9, 2010, and traveled around the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. As originally scheduled 21 cities were present in the list of relay, with 2,010 torchbearers expected to carry it from October 12 to November 12, 2010; however, two more cities — Changchun and Haiyang, the host of 2007 Asian Winter Games and 2012 Asian Beach Games respectively, were also later added to the route for a single day on October 15, 2010, increasing the number of torchbearers to 2,068 people.[35][36][37]

Calendar

In the following calendar for the 2010 Asian Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held. Each bullet in these boxes is an event final, the number of bullets per box representing the number of finals that were contested on that day. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games, and at the right how many gold medals were won in that sport. There is a key at the top of the calendar to aid the reader.[38]

 OC Opening ceremony  ●  Event competitions  1 Event finals  CC Closing ceremony
November 2010 7th
Sun		 8th
Mon		 9th
Tue		 10th
Wed		 11th
Thu		 12th
Fri		 13th
Sat		 14th
Sun		 15th
Mon		 16th
Tue		 17th
Wed		 18th
Thu		 19th
Fri		 20th
Sat		 21st
Sun		 22nd
Mon		 23rd
Tue		 24th
Wed		 25th
Thu		 26th
Fri		 27th
Sat		 Gold
medals
Aquatics – Diving 2 2 2 2 2 10
Aquatics – Swimming 6 6 7 7 6 1 38
Aquatics – Synchronized swimming 1 1 1 3
Aquatics – Water polo  ●  ●  ●  ● 1  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 2
Archery  ●  ● 1 1 1 1 4
Athletics 6 6 8 4 11 10 2 47
Badminton  ●  ● 2  ●  ●  ● 1 2 2 7
Baseball  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 1
Basketball  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 1 2
Board games – Chess  ●  ●  ● 2  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 2 4
Board games – Weiqi  ●  ● 1  ●  ●  ● 2 3
Board games – Xiangqi  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 2 2
Bowling 1 1 1 1  ● 2  ● 4  ● 2 12
Boxing  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●   6 7 13
Canoeing – Slalom ● 2 ● 2 4
Canoeing – Sprint ● ● 6 6 12
Cricket  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 2
Cue sports  ● 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 10
Cycling – BMX 2 2
Cycling – Mountain bike 2 2
Cycling – Road 2 1 1 4
Cycling – Track 1 3  ● 2 4 10
Dancesport 5 5 10
Dragon boat 2 2 2 6
Equestrian 1 ● 1 ● ● 2 1 1 6
Fencing 2 2 2 2 2 2 12
Football  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1  ● 1 2
Golf  ●  ●  ● 4 4
Gymnastics – Artistic 1 1 2 5 5 14
Gymnastics – Rhythmic 1 1 2
Gymnastics – Trampoline  ● 2 2
Handball  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 2 2
Field hockey  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 1 2
Judo 4 4 4 4 16
Kabaddi  ●  ●  ●  ● 2 2
Karate 5 4 4 13
Modern pentathlon 2 2 4
Roller sports 4 2  ● 3 9
Rowing  ●  ●  ● 7 7 14
Rugby sevens  ●  ● 2 2
Sailing  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 14 14
Sepaktakraw  ●  ●  ●  ● 2  ●  ● 2  ●  ● 2 6
Shooting 6 4 8 4 6 4 4 4 2 2 44
Softball  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 1
Soft tennis  ● 2 1  ● 2  ● 2 7
Squash  ●  ●  ● 2  ●  ●  ● 2 4
Table tennis  ●  ●  ● 2  ●  ● 3 2 7
Taekwondo 4 4 4 4 16
Tennis  ●  ●  ● 2  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 3 2 7
Triathlon 1 1 2
Volleyball – Beach  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 1 2
Volleyball – Indoor  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 1 1 2
Weightlifting 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 15
Wrestling 3 3 3 3 3 3 18
Wushu 2 2 2 2 7 15
Ceremonies OC CC
Total gold medals 28 35 30 37 39 33 36 30 31 26 30 29 39 48 5 476
Cumulative Total 28 63 93 130 169 202 238 268 299 325 355 384 423 471 476
November 2010 7th
Sun		 8th
Mon		 9th
Tue		 10th
Wed		 11th
Thu		 12th
Fri		 13th
Sat		 14th
Sun		 15th
Mon		 16th
Tue		 17th
Wed		 18th
Thu		 19th
Fri		 20th
Sat		 21st
Sun		 22nd
Mon		 23rd
Tue		 24th
Wed		 25th
Thu		 26th
Fri		 27th
Sat		 Gold
medals

Games

Firework display at the Canton Tower

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony officially began on November 12, 2010 at 20:00 local time. For the first time in history, the ceremony was not held inside a stadium; instead, it was held along the Pearl River on Haixinsha Island.[39] The ceremony was directed by Chen Weiya, assistant director of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and featured a cast of about 6,000 performers.[40] It was attended by the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao,[41] President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari,[42] Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva,[43] Chief Secretary for Administration of Hong Kong Henry Tang,[44] as well as President of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah and President of International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge.[45] The ceremony lasted for three hours, and together with the closing ceremony costed about ￥380 million ($53 million).[46]

Athletes were paraded by boats along the Pearl River. The ceremony featured the water-themed arts show and culture of Guangzhou. The last torchbearer, diver He Chong lit up the cauldron, after igniting the traditional Chinese firecrackers whose flare shot up to the top of the tower where the cauldron was held.[47][48]

The ceremony was regarded as successful by IOC President Jacques Rogge who described it as "absolutely fantastic", and said that "Guangzhou has the ability to host the Olympics".[49][50] OCA director general Husain Al-Musallam praised the Games saying that it was unique, fantastic and "just better than the Beijing Olympics".[51]

Sports

Compared to the 28 sports and 302 events in the Olympic Games, the 2010 Asian Games featured 42 sports and 476 events throughout the 16 days of the competition, with added disciplines in some events. This version of the Asian Games comprised more sports and events than the last one, as 39 sports and 424 events were in the calendar of 2006 Asian Games.[52] 28 and 5 gold medalists emerged during the opening and final day respectively, while a total of 48 gold medalists were awarded on November 26, 2010, the most in single day.[53] Twenty20 version of the cricket was one of the début sports, while dancesport, dragon boat, weiqi and roller sport were unique in the Games.[54][55] Bodybuilding was dropped due to judging controversy in the 2006 Games.[56]

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony began on November 27, 2010 at 20:06 local time in front of 35,000 spectators.[57] The show began with the theme "Leave Your Song Here", which included music and dance from China, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Japan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.[3] The ceremony featured songs from different cultures– Indian "Saajan ji Ghar Aaye" and "Aao re Jhumo re",[58] Indonesian "Sing Sing So" and Japanese "Sakura".[59] Various artists from Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China performed "Triumphant Return" (凯旋), among them were Alan Tam, Leo Ku and Hacken Lee.[59]

The ceremony also included an eight-minute segment from Incheon with singer and actor Rain performing the segment.[60] The Mayor of Incheon Song Young-gil received the Games flag for 2014 Games.[61]

The closing ceremony ended with the song "Everyone" (每一个人) and "Cheer for Asia" (为亚细亚喝彩).[62]

Medal table

China led the medal table for the eighth consecutive time with a new record for the most number of gold medals (at 199 gold medals) won in a single Games. This bettered their previous record of 183 gold medals won by China at Beijing in 1990.[2] Macau,[63] and Bangladesh won their first Asian Games gold medal from wushu and cricket, respectively.[64] Some 35 NOCs (except Kuwait who competed under the Olympic flag) won at least a single medal with 27 NOCs winning at least a single gold medal, thus leaving nine NOCs failing to win any medal at the Games.

The top ten ranked NOCs at these Games are listed below. The host nation, China, is highlighted.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 China (CHN)19911998416
2 South Korea (KOR)766591232
3 Japan (JPN)487494216
4 Iran (IRI)20152459
5 Kazakhstan (KAZ)18233879
6 India (IND)14173465
7 Chinese Taipei (TPE)13163867
8 Uzbekistan (UZB)11222356
9 Thailand (THA)1193252
10 Malaysia (MAS)9181441
Total 477 479 621 1577

Participating nations

Participating countries

All 45 members of the Olympic Council of Asia that existed as of 2010 participated in the 2010 Asian Games. All National Olympic Committees were ordered to submit their entries before September 30, 2010. Organizers allowed each NOC to submit additional entries and injury replacements after the deadline. After the final registration deadline, some 9,704 athletes, as well as some 4,750 team officials, took part in the Games, an increase of 184 athletes from the previous Asian Games in Doha.[65] According to the Games' official website, Kuwaiti athletes participated the Games under the Olympic flag because the Kuwait Olympic Committee was suspended due to political interference in January 2010.[66]

Below is a list of all the participating NOCs; the number of competitors per delegation is indicated in brackets.

Controversies

Sports

Cricket was among the five début sports in the Games. India, despite its historical record, decided not to send its cricket team to the Games. According to the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the decision was due to other international commitments.[112] However, its main rivals, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, confirmed their participation.[113]

In ten-pin bowling, the Asian Bowling Federation decided to compete the Games behind closed doors, this resulted in protests from many delegates.[114]

On November 17, Yang Shu-chun of Chinese Taipei, was abruptly disqualified with 12 seconds left in the first round of the taekwondo competition, while leading her opponent 9–0. She was accused of having installed illegal sensors on the heel of her socks.[115][116] The event quickly turned into an international incident, with officials, politicians and public opinion from Chinese Taipei, China and South Korea trading accusations of manipulation and fraud.[117]

About 1,400 random doping tests were carried out during the Games.[118] Two athletes tested positive; judoka Shokir Muminov on November 19, 2010 and Greco-Roman wrestler Jakhongir Muminov on November 24, 2010, both from Uzbekistan, tested positive for methylhexanamine.[119] On January 24, 2011, the OCA announced another two doping failures, Qatari's Ahmed Dheeb who tested positive for exogenous testosterone metabolites and Palestinian Awajna Abdalnasser who tested positive for 19-Norandrosterone.[120]

Languages

In July 2010, the citizens of Guangzhou opposed the proposal suggested by the city committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) to use Mandarin more in television news programmes, rather than Guangzhou's main language, Cantonese.[121] The debates eventually led to a series of public protests.

In late October 2010, in order to protest the government over the language policy in Tibetan area, the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) used the games as a channel to voice their concern.[122]

Environment

Like the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Guangzhou also attempted to raise the air quality of the city. The authority had pledged ￥600 million to fight the problem, and had ordered around 32 chemical plants to stop production by the end of 2009.[123] A report shown on July 13, 2010 indicates that the air quality was rated at 95.07% in 2009, an increase of 12.01% since 2004;[124] this improvement eventually cost authorities ￥24 billion.[125] Later action from organisers to curb the pollution included decreasing the movement of vehicles up to 40 percent and banning barbecue stalls in 11 cities.[126][127]

Between 2005 and 2008 about 150 Guolang villagers survived by growing tomatoes, beans and cabbages while fighting the government for fairer compensation after their homes were flattened for Asian games infrastructure. The Panyu government set aside a date to listen to petitioners complaint on October 18, 2010.[128]

Prior to the opening of the games, Conghua reported 429 cases of Norovirus outbreak. The government officials stressed that the people recovered before November 12.[129]

See also

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