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With the countdown to Asian Games 2006, Doha nearing its end, the ball is all set to roll for a fortnight-long sports extravaganza.
Featuring the topmost sports stars from various regions of Asia, the 15th edition of this quadrennial event promises to be the most spectacular in the history of Asian Games.
As the Asian Games 2006 Torch Relay reaches its final destination, the world readies itself for the glitter of stars that have descended in Doha, and accumulated in the magnificent Asian Games 2006 village.
The Doha 2006 Flame will be carried to the Khalifa Stadium on Friday, 1 December, where it'll ignite the cauldron, thus declaring the Games open.
The opening ceremony of Asian Games 2006 is touted to be a riveting show, comprising more than seven thousand singers, dancers, musicians and acrobats. The results of untiring labor will soon be there for all to see and appreciate.
Testing times are here for more than 16,000 volunteers, who have been entrusted with the task of ensuring smooth functioning of the Games. It is the time to judge their capabilities in carrying out the work allotted to them.
All 16 venues hosting the 39 sports events of Asian Games 2006 bear a splendid look, with national flags and pictures of Orry, the mascot of Asian Games 2006, dominating all the pillars and posts.
Various teams from the 45 participating countries in Asian Games 2006 will soon march around the stadium, with their national flags in tow. They'll be greeted by the deafening cheers of their innumerable fans, who have traveled to Doha from all across the globe.
As the event nears commencement, hotels in Doha are crammed with tourists, with hundreds still queued up at receptions in hope of rooms. All flights to Doha are fully booked, well in advance, by ardent sports lovers.
It is a moment of reckoning for billions who'll watch the telecast of Asian Games 2006 from the comfort of their television couches. It is the time to prepare your own scoresheet to keep a tab on the results of Asian Games 2006.
Millions of hearts are thumping wildly as the clock ticks away… action's lurching round the corner.
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