{"id":241,"date":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/09\/22\/post-234-asian-games-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T00:00:00","slug":"post-234-asian-games-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/22\/post-234-asian-games-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-234: Asian Games 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
Thursday, September 18th<\/em><\/strong> 9:30 PM<\/strong><\/em>
Sauntering down the street in Incheon, I hear a raucous noise emanating from across the way. Food and drink. Seafood. Oh, okay. Wait<\/em>. I’ve walked along here dozens of times. This restaurant has never<\/em> been like that. On a Thursday? I detoured a few steps to peer in. Wouldn’t you have done the same? Yes; packed.<\/em> Hmm. A mystery, but not for long: THAILAND. On one jacket; and another; on all their jackets. Mystery solved. They were athletes and coaches. <\/div>\n
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And so began the “Asian Games” for me (I’d never heard of them, either; a kind of Asia-only Olympics) and are being held in Incheon, South Korea, the very city I am in as I write these words.

<\/span><\/span>It is, actually, exciting to have 10,000 athletes from across Asia show up along with a substantial number of fans and hangers-on. Suddenly Incheon feels multicultural. There seems to be a rule that athletes must wear their team jackets anywhere they go. I was able to thus identify others on Friday night, and more on Sunday. Two with BANGLADESH emblazoned on their jackets were trying to finagle a taxi driver into going where they want to go,<\/p>\n

The tickets are very cheap, at under $10 for most events, so I hope I can go to one or more. Interestingly, one of the sports at the Asian Games is baseball. One I was thinking about seeing — this is not a joke — was Pakistan versus Hong Kong. Yes, they have fielded baseball teams. China has also fielded a baseball team. These kinds of teams will all be clobbered by Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Other big news is that the North Korean delegation is here and is competing. Oh, and today I learned that Palestine has an official team (even without an official country) while Israel has been banned from the Games for decades.\n<\/div>\n

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