The event will be held in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8, 2023. China will
host the 2022 Asian Games in fall 2023, organizers said on Tuesday, July 19, after postponing the event in Hangzhou because of Covid-19. The Games were originally scheduled for September this year, but organizers postponed them in May as China tried to stamp out a large Covid resurgence in several parts of the country. The event will now be
held in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8, 2023, the Olympic Council of Asia [OCA] said. Hangzhou lies less than 200 kilometers from the country's biggest city Shanghai, which endured a months-long lockdown earlier this year as part of the ruling Communist Party's zero-tolerance approach to the virus. The OCA said on Tuesday that the new dates were chosen to avoid "conflict with other major international sporting events." The Hangzhou organizing committee vowed to "present a
wonderful and marvellous sports and cultural event with Chinese characteristics" in a statement confirming the new dates. China is the last major economy committed to stamping out domestic spread of the virus through harsh lockdowns, mass testing and strict controls on international travel. But that has hurt the country's international sporting ambitions, with the world's most populous nation canceling or postponing almost all events since the start of the pandemic, with the exception of this year's Winter Olympics
in Beijing.
The World University Games, scheduled to begin in June in Chengdu and already delayed from last year, have also been postponed again, until 2023. The Asian Games typically attract over 10,000 athletes from across the region.
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Organizers said in April that Hangzhou, a city of 12 million in eastern China, had finished constructing 56 competition venues for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games. Hangzhou will be the third city in China to host the continental competition after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010. Some events are also expected to be held in other provincial cities including Ningbo, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Shaoxing and Jinhua.
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The Southeast Asian Games, also known as the SEA Games [SEAG], is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee [IOC] and the Olympic Council of Asia [OCA]. The Southeast Asian Games is one of the five subregional Games of the Olympic Council of Asia [OCA]. The others are the Central Asian Games, the East Asian Youth Games, the South Asian Games, and the West Asian Games.
The 2023 Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as the 32nd SEA Games, will be held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The announcement was made at the SEA Games Federation Council meeting at Singapore, in conjunction of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, by the President of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, Thong Khon.
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The huge sports arenas, at the end of the games, will serve as the main attraction for local and international sports federations to choose Cambodia to host events. The Sport Village will also function as an integrated multi-sport community as well as commercial and residential hub where one can live, work, stay healthy amidst lush greenery, all in the luxury of one’s own self-contained development, which also offers the Safari World, Water Park, a 18 Hole Golf Course [with an additional 27 Hole under development], Healthcare and Educational Facilities. Also, for those travelling to the sports complex they will also have the opportunity to choose to stay in our planned serviced apartments or hotel.
The WorldBridge Sport Village will easily
be a success story in the post-SEA Games era, with nearly all of the venues still in use, either by sportsmen and women from all over the world or by the thousands of residents, who will live and work in the sprawling village. When completed within 2022 for the preparation of the 2023 Southeast Asian Games & 2023 ASEAN Para Games by the relevant authorities, the WorldBridge Sport Village by WorldBridge will see the transformation of Phnom Penh into a modern sports and residential metropolis,
which will be self-contained, tranquil and sustained.