15th Asian Games - Doha 2006

[janix]

Anybody going to Qatar this December? The 15th Asian Games will kick-off on the 1st day of December to the 15th. You can check out the website of the 15th asian games here www.doha-2006.com. The torch relay will pass through:

Bahrain Japan Philippines China Korea Qatar India Kuwait Thailand Indonesia Oman UAE and Iran

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND REGIONS

Afghanistan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Brunei
Cambodia
China
Chinese Taipei
East Timor
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Macau
Malaysia Maldives
Mongolia
Myanmar (Burma)
Nepal
North Korea (DPR Korea)
Oman
Pakistan
Palestine
Philippines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Syria
Tajikistan
Thailand
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Yemen

So anyone going to spend and watch, then tour around the wonderful deserts of Qatar? Qatar has a lot more to offer than just deserts. If Dubai is the tourist capital of the Middle East, then Qatar is the business capital. You could bring your bike, but if you're thinking of mountain trails, you're mistaken. I just don't know how DAGOC will do the mountain bike races.

[janix]

okee... I think DAGOC will not organize any mountain bike race. only road race. 2 months to go!!!

[king]

posted in PCN:

Road bikers seek berths to Asia tilt

A crack six-member road cycling team will shoot for berths on Team Philippines to the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, when it flies to Kuala Lumpur this weekend to compete in the 2006 Asian Cycling Championships. The team, backed primarily by the Philippine Sports Commission, is composed of 2006 Padyak Pinoy champion Santy Barnachea, former Tour Pilipinas titlists Warren Davadilla and Arnel Qui-rimit, Padyak Pinoy King of the Mountain John Ricafort, 2005 Golden Tour runner-up Frederick Feliciano and Padyak Pinoy second-placer Ericson Obosa.

National head coach Jomel Lorenzo, assistant coaches Renato Dolosa and Gerardo Amar, and equipment custodian Edwin Niyo will accompany the riders. Sixteen-year-old Mark Julius Bonzo will also join the team to compete in the Asian championships' juniors' track events.

PhilCycling president Bert Lina said the federation also wants the road team to qualify for Doha. Nine track cyclists have already made the grade for the Asain Games after their impressive performance in the 2006 Track Asia Cup Rounds 1 and 2 in Ipoh, Malaysia, and Bangkok, Thailand, in July.

The qualified track (velodrome) riders to Doha are Baby Marites Bitbit, Alfie Catalan, Paterno Curtan Jr., Carlo Jasul, Arnold Marcelo, Alvin Benosa, Paulo Manapul, Edwin Paragoso and John Paul Morales.

[xctofi]

read from the newspaper earlier that our riders were mugged/robbed when they went out for last minute shopping the night after the qualifying round.they were held up by armed men (indian looking) taken to an abandoned garage,forced to strip down to their undies and after taking their cash,celfones and othervaluables were given their clothes back and set free.thank goodness no one got hurt.

[>rocketman>]

I guess QATAR cannot build a mountain out from the deserts, in time for the asian games,

No go, for eboy quinones (XC) and joey baraba (DH)

eric feliciano (road) and mariitess bibit (track) are XC mtbikers anyway.

EVS!

[janix]

well, they could make 4x track... or they could organize a xc race, but no climbs or decents, just like their road races -- all flat stages, no KOM, only points, overall and young rider... if i'm not mistaken i think their is sprint points.

[janix]

today's the start of the Games!!!

[janix]

while browsing my photo archives again, i found this:

with Ory (Asian Games 06 mascot) and the countdown clock (it's still a year before the start) nyahahhaah!!! i was so fat back then.