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SEOUL, 11 September 2014 – The 17th Asian Games – Asia’s biggest sporting event – kicks off in Incheon on 19 September and will run through to 04 October 2014, with some 13,000 athletes from 45 Asian countries, including the Philippines, expected to complete in 36 sporting events, including the 28 Olympic game sports on the programme for Rio De Janeiro 2016, in Korea’s third largest city. Inaugurated in 1978 in New Delhi, Seoul was the first Korean City to host the event in 1986 and Busan took its turn to host in 2002. With the third games to be hosted in Korea in Incheon, the city aims to captivate the spectators and television viewers from the opening day until the closing ceremony.