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The 1st South Asian Winter Games will be held in Dehradun and Auli, in the himalayan state of Uttarakhand, India in January 2011. The games are being conducted by the Indian Olympic Association and the Winter Games Federation of India[1]. A grand opening and closing ceremony has been planned on January 10, 2011 and January 16, 2011, in Dehradun and Auli, respectively.

The Ice-skating and Ice hockey will be conducted from January 10 to 12, 2011 in Dehradun and the Skiing events will be held from January 14 to 16, 2011 at Auli in Chamoli district.

Infrastructure (Games Related)

File:RSC Skating Arena.jpg
Dehradun - Ice Hockey Arena.

At Dehradun a world class state-of-the-art facility has been created at Raipur Sports College. The Ice skating and Ice Hockey arena has a seating capacity of 2,000 and the ice skating rink area is 60M by 30M, in which about 100 to 150 persons can skate every hour. It also has an olympic size (50 by 25 Meters) fully air conditioned swimming pool, basketball courts and a cafeteria inside the complex. The central government had sanctioned Rs 1.5 Billion for constructing this facility.

A Dehradun - RSC Ice Skating Rink.
Dehradun - RSC Ice Skating Rink.

Auli is a world class destination for skiing. The skiing facility at Auli is of international standards with state of the art ski slopes, artificial snow making system, water storage for artificial snow making system, chair lift system for ski sport and a residential accommodation complex. For this event most of the works including the ice making facility are well in place and there are exclusively 230 guest rooms that have been built for the athletes and officials. The season at Auli has been extended by creating artificial ice from a captive snow plant. [2]

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Auli - Skiing Slopes.


Infrastructure (General)

The new Passenger Terminal Building at the Jolly Grant Airport is now fully operational. The installation of Night Landing System (NLS) and Instrument landing System (ILS) is complete and the lights, too, have been installed on the runway to facilitate night landing. The main runway has been extended by The Airports Authority of India, to 7000 ft to facilitate the landing of bigger aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 727.[3] The helipad at Auli has been reconstructed to ensure regular chopper services from the Dehradun airport. These services are going to be used to ferry athletes and officials during the event.


Mascot

The official mascot for the first South Asian Winter Games is the Bharal, the Himalayan Blue-Sheep or Big-Horn (Ovis Ammon) Wild Sheep is the native of North America, Mediterranean Basin, Central Asia, Asia and South Himalayas.[4] The Bharal was chosen as the ideal mascot for these games keeping in view its agility, strength, sure-footedness and adaptability for survival in the snow-covered high altitude areas. The male has massive wrinkled horns upto 70 inches in length which forms a spiral, while the horns of the female are much smaller. It weighs around a quintal and stands about 42 inches at the shoulder. Nanda Devi National Park in Uttarakhand is the famous abode of this brownish grey Himalayan Big-Horn called Bharal.


The Games

Participating nations

Afghanistan will not participate.[5]

Participating nations.

Sports

Nine winter sports events are included in the 2011 South Asian Winter Games. Alpine skiing will consist of slalom, giant slalom and Super G with both mens and womens events. Nordic skiing will consist of three events for men – 10 km, 15 km and a 4x10km relay, while the womens event will consist of a 3 km, 5 km and a 10 km. Snowboarding will have a slalom and giant slalom with events for both men and women. Skating events include short track speed skating for men and women, figure skating for men and women in single and pair events, and a men's ice hockey tournament.[10][11]

Skiing events are to be held at the Auli GMVNL, Auli and the skating event are to be held at Dehradun RSC Arena, Dehradun.[10]

The figure in brackets indicates the number of events

Demonstration event

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.wgfi.in/organising_committee
  2. ^ http://www.auliholidays.com/
  3. ^ Airports Authority of India. http://www.aai.aero.jsp
  4. ^ http://www.wgfi.in/mascot-bharal
  5. ^ http://www.zeenews.com/news679044.html
  6. ^ http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=122462&date=2011-01-10
  7. ^ http://www.hindustantimes.com/Winter-Games-Just-a-shot-in-the-cold-for-organisers/Article1-648383.aspx
  8. ^ http://www.dawn.com/2011/01/06/pakistan-skiers-off-to-india-for-saf-winter-games.html
  9. ^ http://www.dailypioneer.com/309607/Safe-SAF-Winter-Games-begin-today.html
  10. ^ a b "Events". Winter Games Federation of India. Retrieved 2010-11-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  11. ^ "Uttarakhand 2011 First South Asian Winter Games". Winter Games Federation of India. Retrieved 2010-11-11. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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