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Article: Asian Games Flame Settled At New Delhi
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- December 14, 1997
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New Delhi's National Stadium, venue of the inaugural Asian Games
in 1951, on Sunday became the permanent home for the Asian Games
flame.
Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) president Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad
Al-Sabah of Kuwait lit the flame which will be relayed from the
National Stadium to the cities hosting all future summer and winter
Asian Games.
The OCA president said:"To have history one needs roots and our
roots are here, it was here that the Asian Games movement was ...