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National Games

Not all, maybe not many or just a few, countries have a similar sporting event as the one now underway in China---National Games. Even a sub-continental meet may not necessarily be up to the scale of the latest Chinese domestic version of Olympiad in the eastern Jiangsu province.

What on earth are these games about? How did they come about? Why do Chinese deem them relevant now that the real Olympics will show up in less than three years in Beijing?

Well, involving more than a dozen thousand athletes from scores of delegations (as NOC delegations for the Olympics, these groups represent the country's provinces, municipalities, the military sports entity and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau) and consuming billions of dollars in venue construction and human dedication, these national games are indeed HUGE and costly. Nevertheless, equally enormous factors have contributed to their existance and probably fur