The 2014 Asian Games, officially known as the XVII Asiad, is the largest sporting event in Asia governed by Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). It is scheduled to take place in Incheon, South Korea from September 19–October 4, 2014. The events of the Games will be finalised in December 2010, during the OCA executive board meeting in Muscat, Oman.
Incheon was awarded the right on April 17, 2007, defeated Delhi, India to host the Games. Incheon is the third city in South Korea after Seoul (1986) and Busan (2002) to host the Asian Games.
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The organisers initially proposed to stage 38 sports in the Games, but during the 28th Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) general assembly in Singapore in July 2009, it was decided that the number of sports be trimmed to 35 by contesting the 28 Olympic sports and in-addition of seven non-Olympic sports.
The seven non-Olympic sports will be finalised in December 2010 in OCA's executive board meeting in Muscat, Oman. The issue has been delayed due to conflict of interest between the organisers and OCA. Organisers proposed baseball, ten-pin bowling, kabbadi, sepak takraw, softball, squash, wushu for inclusion and drop cricket due to their view that it is played in a small number of countries and they lacked infrastructure to host it on 13 November 2010. The OCA however, recommended the inclusion of karate, as well as cricket because the sport can generate returns through television viewership due to high spectator interest, while ten-pin bowling was recommended to be re-designated for the Indoor Games.
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