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All eyes on Incheon

The President of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organising Committee, Kim Young Soo, said the attention of the sports world had switched from London to Incheon now the dust has settled on the 2012 Olympic Games. Speaking at the 5th OCA Coordination Committee meeting for the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, on Friday, the IAGOC President said his organising team had learned a lot from observation visits to the London Olympics and 3rd Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, China, in June.

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Why Everyone in the World should Cheer on Bhutan at the London Games

Looking for a country other than your own to support during the Olympics? You could do worse than Bhutan. As a former Model UN fanatic who specialized in representing odd, unpopular nations (“Will the chair please recognize Djibouti?”), I’ve always had a soft spot for Bhutan, which is the sort of country you might end up with if Patch Adams were your king. Since the 1970s, the largely Buddhist nation has focused on maximizing Gross National Happiness

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