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Asian Games: Asian Games opened with a gala ceremony on the theme of the spectacular water features on Friday, culminating years of planning an event which is to strengthen the dominant position of China's regional sports.
The show announces Asiad most ambitious to date with some 10,000 athletes from 45 countries and territories competing for gold in 42 sports. The games run until November 27, with hosts China has greatly promoted the top of the medals table, and South Korea and Japan are fighting for second place.
"Remember, you are part of history here and now, Olympic Council of Asia president Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah said that athletes at the opening ceremony. "Please show us your best performances, and we show the spirit of sportsmanship, fair play, friendship and respect for your fellow athletes and officials." Security forces set up a sweep operation to isolate the place closed with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari participants.
In a change to the standard procedure of the ceremony, beamed to a television audience of billions of dollars, took place on an island in the Pearl River, rather than a stadium with the giant back-Guangzhou Tour plan. Backed by a superb light show, it was the theme around the Lingnan local culture, incorporating folk dancing, music of drums and water skiing and jet skiing and a giant ship called "Harmony."
The magnitude of the preparations for the ceremony drew parallels with the Beijing Olympics opens in 2008, which was acclaimed, but officials in Guangzhou were eager to put the two apart.
"It's as if one is coffee and the other is tea," ceremony director Chen Weiya, deputy chief for the curtain raiser to Beijing, said.
Just as Beijing has done before the 2008 Olympic Games, Guangzhou has paid billions of dollars in this sprawling metropolis is ready south.While the city does not have the glamor of Beijing and Shanghai, officials here are hoping the Games will help transform it into one of the best destinations in Asia.
In preparation, he launched several major infrastructure projects, a new station, shopping mall shiny, metro lines, housing projects, roads and bridges. He also built or renovated 70 sports facilities.
Safety is a major concern, with more than 100,000 police officers on duty to keep safe, with hundreds of thousands of security guards and volunteers. "While the Asian Games in Guangzhou will be the highest ever athletes, officials and journalists in the history of Asian Games, work safety has been a great challenge," a statement from the security panel of the Games said.
"The security board has adopted effective measures necessary to ensure safe Games. We have done our best to provide a safe and supportive environment for athletes, coaches, officials and spectators."
While the two Koreas marched together at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2006 Athens Olympic Games Doha Asian Games as a sign of reconciliation, they have failed to repeat the feat here.
Relations between the two neighbors remain tense after the sinking of the battleship South Korea, the Cheonan, in March that claimed 46 lives.
All athletes arriving by a convoy of boats, including those of Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran and the Palestinian territories. The competition proper starts on Saturday when 28 gold medals will be won.