Thursday, February 26, 2009

2009 World Games Stadium

Apparently, every city in China (both flavors) has some sort of Olympic type event these days. Beijing had the actual Olympics. Taipei has the Deaflympics. Hong Kong has the East Asian Games. Kaohsiung isn't getting left out, it has the 2009 World Games.

The World Games are made up of sports that aren't carried by the Olympics. Mostly, it's sports I've never heard of like dragon-boat racing, fin swimming and rugby. Marginal, but they made a really cool stadium for it. It's totally solar powered and parts of it were still shrink-wrapped when I visited. Anyhow, the World Games are this summer in July. I'm sure you can watch them on Setanta or something.

The photo set can be found here.
The map of the photo set is here. -- Note that the stadium is so new that it doesn't show on any maps yet! (2/26/09).

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