The inaugural 1st Asian Para Games, the parallel sport event for disabled Asian athletes, opens December 12 and closes December 19, 2010, two weeks after the conclusion of the 16th Asian Games. The gap in between the Games will be used by organizers to convert all athlete accommodations, meeting halls, training and competition venues used by the Asian Games into disability-accessible facilities.
Bid
Four cities bidded to host this event in early March 2004. They were Amman, Guangzhou, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. However, Seoul withdrew after considering the short span of time between the 2002 (in Busan, South Korea) and the 2010 event.[1] With the withdrawal of Amman, soon after Seoul, Kuala Lumpur also quit the bid after the country's Sports Minister cited the high cost of hosting the Games.[2][3] With Guangzhou left, the Olympic Council of Asia announced the city won the bid to host the Asian Games on July 1, 2004
Marketing
The emblem of this Games from the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is a stylized goat, which, in Chinese tradition, is a blessing and brings people luck. It is also a representative symbol of the host city Guangzhou, which is called the "City of Goats" or "City of the Five Rams".[5]
Five sporty goats, dubbed "Le Yangyang," will serve as the mascots of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.[6][7] The five goats - A Xiang (祥), A He (和), A Ru (如), A Yi (意) and Le Yangyang (樂洋洋), are a play on Guangzhou's nickname, "City of Goats". Moreover, the Chinese character "yang" or "goat" is also an auspicious symbol, because, when read together, the Chinese names of the five goats are a message of blessing, literally means "harmony, blessings, success and happiness" (祥和如意樂洋洋).[8]
The mascot design is based on a legend about five immortals who took five goats to Guangzhou, each holding an ear of corn in its mouth. There, the immortals prayed for an end to famine, then flew into the sky as the five goats turned into fossils.
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