The World Games in Taiwan - 奧運,世大運,亞運討論

Lydia avatar
By Lydia
at 2009-07-29T14:11

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文章取自 (有圖)
http://rsaorienteers.blogspot.com/2009/07/world-games-in-taiwan.html

BY South African National Orienteering Squad



Thursday 16 July 2009
The World Games in Taiwan
Team South Africa has arrived in Kaosiung, Taiwan for the 8th World Games.

South Africa has a team of about 70 athletes representing the country in 11
of the sporting codes taking place at the Games. Orienteering is one of
these, being represented by Tania Wimberley and Nicholas Mulder with Ian
Bratt as the team official. In total, the Games is hosting about 4800
competitors representing 105 nations in 31 different sports codes. All these
sports are Olympic recognised, but currently are not part of the Olympic
programme. The World Games are in effect the younger brother / sister of the
Olympics.

Pic: Tania and Ian at Kaosiung Airport

The SA team arrived in Kaosiung Airport to a rapturous welcome from the Games
organising committee. We were quickly bussed to the accreditation centre and
then our hotel. As the Orienteering programme is early in the Games programme
(we will be the first SA sports discipline to compete at this years Games),
we immediately left the rest of Team SA for our own orienteering hotel.

Pic: Ian, Tania and Nicholas at the accreditation centre

The weather here is Kaosiung is very warm and extrely humid. You break into
an immediate sweat every time you leave the air-conditioned buildings. To
make matters worse, the Sprint and Middle distance races (taking place on
Saturday and Sunday) that we will be competing in, will take place in the
early afternoon! To add a bit of spice, we also presently have a tropical
depression bearing down on the country out of the Pacific, with an expected
arrival late on Saturday.

Yesterday was our first full day in Taiwan and we used it to acclimatise and
recover from jet lag. We took in a few of the sights of the city, including
one from the top of a 17-storey department store.

Pic: Nicholas in front of part of the city skyline

Pic: We also managed to pose with the 2 mascots of the World Games, Gao Mei
and Syong Ge

Last night was the official opening of the World Games Plaza, which is the
cultural and entertainment venue for the World Games. The opening, music
arena and cultural and food stands were packed with thousands of Kaosiung
residents who also took in one of the biggest and best fireworks displays
I've ever seen.

Pic: World Games Plaza opening fireworks display from the True-Love Pier

We also had a good walk around the food stands, immersing ourselves in the
sights and smells of eastern cuisine. Needless to say, we didn't taste as we
don't want to risk any unusual foods before our races.

Pic: Ian in front of one of the many food stands selling unusal (by western
standards) cuisine.

Today we will be going to the official model event for the orienteering,
before attending the Opening Ceremony at the newly completed 40'000 seater
stadium that were purpose built for these Games.

We expect a superb celebration. One of the remarkable things is the level of
support that the whole population of the city has given the World Games. They
are truly treating is as the biggest ecent in Taiwan in 2009 and many years.
Wherever you go in the city, you have questions as to which country you are
here to compete for. The level of support from SASCOC has also been superb,
due also to strong support from the National Lottery. We had a welcoming
dinner at the SA Team hotel together with the South African dimplomatic
representation to the country last night. Jointly, SASCOC and the National
Lottery have enabled South Africa to send a strong team to the World Games in
the hope of doing well in all the sports we're entered into. The team
includes other sports such as Rugby 7's, Lifesaving, Dance Sport, Water
skiing and so on.

I'll be keeping regular blog updates on the World Games in the next few days.
In the meantime, more information about the Orienteering at the World Games
can be found here. The information includes venues, race distances as well as
the start lists for the Sprint Distance race taking place on Saturday.

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All Comments

Ivy avatar
By Ivy
at 2009-07-29T16:30
部落格裡面還有好多篇 真有趣XD
Emily avatar
By Emily
at 2009-07-29T18:50
來個翻譯官XD
Eartha avatar
By Eartha
at 2009-07-29T21:09
推一個
Elvira avatar
By Elvira
at 2009-07-29T23:28
超簡易版: 我們來世運了 會好好加油~gj
Una avatar
By Una
at 2009-07-30T01:48
哈哈...有2篇中都有提到台灣的天氣..
又熱又濕...
Rosalind avatar
By Rosalind
at 2009-07-30T04:07
難得有看到在討論"我"的東西

從無到有的世運主場館 by 互助營造

Tracy avatar
By Tracy
at 2009-07-29T13:59
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at 2009-07-29T10:39
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at 2009-07-29T10:34
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