[Reader-list] Thank heavens we lost

[Jeebesh Bagchi]

Interesting Sepp Blatter, FIFA president has asked India in his CII  
speech to bid for Football World Cup, (2018) saying if they miss this  
round, it will be too late to get the next round....it moves in  
rotation. CII has shown great interest, only the host nation is  
suppose to field a team..and that looks fairly remote.....

On 18-Apr-07, at 3:42 PM, Aman Sethi wrote:

> If the Commonwealth games got us here, what would the Asiad have done?
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> New Delhi loses bid
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> Kuwait: New Delhi's bid to host the 2014 Asian Games came unstuck as
> the Olympic Council Asia awarded the multi-sport event to South Korean
> city of Incheon on Tuesday.
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> The Games was awarded to Incheon by the 45-member General Assembly of
> the OCA at the conclusion of its two-day meeting here.
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> New Delhi was bidding to bring back the continental mega event to the
> Indian soil after a gap of 32 years, having last organised the same in
> 1982.
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> The Indian capital was also the host for the inaugural edition of the
> sporting extravaganza, which is second only to the Olympics in terms
> of number of disciplines, in 1951.
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> Korea will be hosting the Games for a third time, with Seoul and Busan
> having conducted it in 1986 and 2002 respectively.
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> Big offer
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> Incheon seemed to have clinched the bid with its offer of $20 million
> for training, equipment and other facilities for the participating
> nations.
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> In its bid-presentation earlier in the day, the South Korean
> delegation had also emphasised on the high-tech facilities that will
> be available to the athletes. — PTI
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