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Saturday, November 20, 2010

The 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou

Sure you've heard about Asian Games currently being held in Guangzhou?
It has started on 12th of November, and will be closed on 27th of November.
It is a grand event with 45 participating nations, and 9704 athletes competing.
Actually, up until today I didn't pay much attention to AG, but today suddenly I felt the urge to see how is our Mongolian team doing. When I checked the stats on an official website (http://www.gz2010.cn/en/) I've been pleasingly surprised to learn that so far Mongolia has won total of 8 medals (2 sliver and 6 bronze), and as expected it was for judo, shooting, and woshu.
for those who r 2 lazy to check the page, i am adding the stats table^^

We can see our Mongolian people are strong, brave and have a good eyesight (that's a really common stereotype, that must be true :) At these kind of moments I feel very proud of being born as a Mongolian.
Anyways there are still 5 days left and many more opportunities to win. I wish luck to all the countries involved (well, except China, 270 medals are more than enough^^), and especially to Mongolian team, FIGHTING!!!

 Some additional information:

This is an emblem of Guangzhou AG. at the first look it might seem as a mere fire, but in fact it is a stylized goat. Wait, what? Goat??? Yes! Guangzhou's nickname is "City of rams", hence the animal, which is also believed by Chinese people to bring luck.
Meet the "Le Yangyang"s! It is no surprise that as a mascot of AG serve also 5 very kawaii rams. We can see that Olympic colors are used, with a yellow ram, symbolizing Asia, leading the others. Their names read together in Chinese mean "harmony, blessings, success and happiness" (祥和如意樂洋洋).

P.S: Next Asian Games 2014 will be held... ta-da-da-da... in Incheon, South Korea!! That is the city I currently live in :) At the time I will definitely go watch it alive. See you there!!!

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