@archive041716.bsky.social🇨🇳 The previous Asian Games in Hangzhou shone the spotlight on China's commitment to innovation, though, the supposed 2022 edition was pushed back to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇮🇩 In 2018, the Asiad returned to Indonesia after been 56 years, as Jakarta and the South Sumatran capital of Palembang teamed up in co-hosting the 18th edition of this continental meet.
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇰🇷 Let's look back at 2014, when the Asian Games took flight in Incheon, a dynamic port city that is the gateway to South Korea. ✈️
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇨🇳 China, in 2010, are back as hosts 20 years on after the 1990 Games, as Guangzhou sets stage to the largest Asiad ever at the time, with 9,704 athletes competed and 42 sports featured. 🦁
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇶🇦 The Asiad makes their way to the Arab world in 2006, and Doha delivered these Games well with an unprecedented ambition for the Qatari capital to be a world-class sporting destination.
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇰🇷 We recall how the Asian Games ushered onto the new millennium with the 2002 Games in Busan, the summer capital of Korea. 🌊
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇹🇭 Bangkok held the Asiad for the fourth time in its history in 1998, and the Thai capital still puts up a successful Games in spite of difficulties brought by the Asian financial crisis.
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇯🇵 Japan last celebrated the Asiad in 1994 at Hiroshima, where it was rebuilt as a City of Peace nearly 50 years on after the atomic bomb drop during the last days of World War II.
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇨🇳 Recalling how China opens up to the world with the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, in which its success paved the way for the Chinese capital to pursue the Olympics themselves. 🐼
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@archive041716.bsky.social🇰🇷 POV: You've tuned to the Asian Games in the 1980s...
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