Dancing, Military Parade Greet Asian Games Flame In Indonesia
Fakhir Rizvi Published July 17, 2018 | 03:57 PM
The torch for the 18th Asian Games was welcomed to the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta Tuesday, with a military parade, traditional dancing and a flypast by the airforce.
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 17th Jul, 2018 ) :The torch for the 18th Asian Games was welcomed to the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta Tuesday, with a military parade, traditional dancing and a flypast by the airforce.
Jakarta and Palembang in Sumatra are set to host about 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries for the August 18 to September 2 Games, the world's biggest multi-sport event behind the Olympics.
The flame, which was lit Sunday in India's capital New Delhi -- the host city of Asia's first Asian Games in 1951 -- arrived on an Indonesian Air Force Boeing jet that was escorted by five fighters in golden eagle formation.
The arrival of the torch was marked by a traditional Yogyakarta welcoming dance, a dragon dance, a paragliding show, gun salute, military band and a flypast by an acrobatics fighter jet squadron.
Cheering crowds greeted Indonesia's torch ambassador and badminton legend Susy Susanti as she led a procession from Adisutjipto Airport through the city, which is renowned as Indonesia's cultural capital.
The torch will travel some 18,000km (about 11,200 miles) across 54 cities before landing in the capital Jakarta, where the Games opening ceremony will be held.
Yogyakarta was chosen to receive the torch "because it is a city with a lot of history, one of the Kingdoms in Indonesia, and also at the same time it is famous as a city of tourism," said Erick Thohir, president of the Asian Games organising committee.
The torch relay will start on Thursday with the first leg from Yogyakarta to Solo.
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