Asian Indoor Games, or “Possibly the world’s most obscure multinational sporting event”
Vietnam is hosting the Asian Indoor Games this week. After covering a few days of indoor track and field, it quickly became apparent that very few people around the globe were taking any notice (ie: I was filing pictures into thin air). Fair enough. It just doesn’t have the flavor of, say, the Asian Beach Games, which last year were held on the rather idyllic shores of Bali. Hmmmm…. what would you rather watch, fin swimming at a dank indoor pool in Hanoi, or volleyball on a sunny Balinese beach….?
Here’s an outtake of a hopeful pole vaulter in action earlier this week….
