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Opening Ceremony of the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang
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Jakarta Palembang 2018: Day nine of competition
Jakarta Palembang 2018: Day 10 of competition
Jakarta Palembang 2018: Closing Ceremony
42 sports and 484 events will be contested at the 2018 Asian Games.
A total number of 462 medal sets will be awarded at the 2018 Asian Games across 47 sports.
Forty-five nations are set to participate at the 2018 Asian Games.
The 2018 Asian Games will mark the second time that Indonesia has hosted the event with Jakarta having done so in 1962.
The 2018 Asian Games will be the 18th edition of the event, which was first held in 1951 in New Delhi.
China go into the 2018 Asian Games as the all-time medal count with 2,976 - 1,355 gold, 928 silver and 693 bronze.
Venues at the 2018 Asian Games will be divided into four clusters, located in South Jakarta, North Jakarta, Jakarta's suburbs and in Palembang.
Palembang is a 47-minute flight from Jakarta.
The Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, built for when Jakarta hosted the 1962 Asian Games, will host athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Asian Games.
The Athletes' Village for the 2018 Asian Games will be located in North Jakarta.
Indonesia's President Joko Widodo inaugurated the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, which will host athletics and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies at the 2018 Asian Games, in January 2018.
Bridge, jet ski, jujitsu, kurash, paragliding, pencak silat, sambo, skateboarding and sport climbing are all set to make their Asian Games debut at Jakarta-Palembang 2018.
Athletics is a compulsory sport has featured at all 17 previous editions of the Asian Games.
The Asian Games basketball tournaments were seen as the unofficial Asian championships until the Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was formed in 1960.
Bridge will become the fourth mind sport to appear at the Asian Games when it makes its debut at Jakarta-Palembang 2018, following in the footsteps of chess, go and xiangqi.
India has won all nine of the gold medals awarded in kabaddi since the sport made its Asian Games debut in 1990.
A total of 13,000 volunteers will be required for the duration of the 2018 Asian Games, including some 2,000 in Palembang.
Volunteer roles are available for high-profile duties such as protocol assistants, National Olympic Committee assistants and liaison officers.
Volunteers at the 2018 Asian Games will wear specially designed, distinctive, eye-catching uniforms.
The Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2018 Asian Games, at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, will feature around 10,000 performers.
There will be a 5,000-strong paid workforce on duty during the 2018 Asian Games.
The trio of animal mascots chosen for the 2018 Asian Games are bird of paradise "Bhin Bhin", single-horned rhinoceros "Kaka" and Bawean deer "Atung".
The first Asian Games to introduce a mascot was New Delhi 1982 when Appu, an elephant, was chosen.
Aice, Samsung, Asia Pulp Paper and Danone Aqua are all official sponsors of the 2018 Asian Games.
Ssangyong Information and Communications Corp, Canon, Pocari Sweat and Indofood are all official partners of the 2018 Asian Games.
Indonesia signed a Host City Contract for the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang during the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly in Incheon in 2014.
Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and located on the northern coast of West Java.
Jakarta is home to nine million people.
Jakarta was officially proclaimed the national capital of Indonesia in 1949, four years after the country's independence from The Netherlands.
Jakarta has hosted the Southeast Asian Games more than any other country in the region, having staged the multi-sport event in 1979, 1987, 1997 and 2011, when they co-hosted with Palembang.
Palembang is the seventh-largest city in Indonesia.
2018 Jakarta Palembang Asian Games Medals Table
China 132 92 65
Japan 75 56 74
Korea, Republic Of 49 58 70
Indonesia 31 24 43
Sheikh Ahmad to meet Indonesian President during OCA visit to Jakarta
By Liam Morgan
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) President Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah will meet Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo for the first time when an OCA delegation visits the country this week to inspect preparations for the 2018 Asian Games.
Widodo had thrown his support behind the country's bid to host the Games before he became President in October, and his meeting with Sheikh Ahmad provides the highlight of the delegation's visit.
Sheikh Ahmad, the Kuwaiti who also heads the Association of National Olympic Committees, will be joined by leading officials in the Asian sports movement.
They will inspect the progress Jakarta has made to date as the city prepares to host its first Asian Games since 1962.
The delegation, which is also due to include representatives from the three biggest sports at the Games - swimming, athletics and football - will meet with the country's Sports Minister Imam Nahrawi, the Indonesian sports family, as well as the Governors of Jakarta and Palembang in South Sumatra, where some events will take place.
As well as OCA honorary life vice-president Wei Jizhong, secretary general Randhir Singh and director general Husain Al-Musallam, the group will also include Qatar's Asian Athletics Association head Dahlan Al Hamad, and Denmark's Badminton World Federation President Paul Erik Høyer, a member of the International Olympic Committee.
The idea behind the visit is to gauge how Jakarta plans to stage a successful Games after they stepped in for Vietnam capital Hanoi, who pulled out for economic reasons in April 2014.
They do still have some remaining infrastructure from their hosting of the 2011 Southeast Asian Games and from 1962, including the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium, but some venues will have to be built and others need reconstruction.
Jakarta stepped in to host the 2018 Asian Games after Vietnam capital Hanoi pulled out last April for economic reasons ©Getty Images
Indonesian Olympic Committee President Rita Subowo claimed last September that she fully expects new venues to be ready despite the short four-year time frame, after the Games were brought forward a year owing to an Indonesian Presidential Election in 2019.
"We have to work hard to fulfill all requirements," she said.
"We are not going to build many venues because the time is too short, but we will use existing ones, including some big exhibition centres."
In Jakarta, 36 sports will be staged and the largest city in Southeast Asia can expect 15,000 athletes and officials to be in attendance, with roughly 40,000 volunteers set to ensure Indonesia hosts a successful Games.
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