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Event Notes: Hangzhou, China Reportedly Bids To Host 2022 Asian Games

China's eastern city of Hangzhou has submitted a bid to host the 2022 Asian Games, state media has reported. The Olympic Council of Asia "will pick the host city at a meeting next month." If Hangzhou wins, it would be the third time a Chinese city has hosted the regional games following Beijing in '90 and southern Guangzhou in '10 (AFP, 8/19).

FROOME QUESTIONS ROUTE: Team Sky’s Chris Froome is "among those to question the Costa del Sol route of Saturday's opening team time trial of the Vuelta a España." He "posted pictures of a boardwalk and a sand-covered section of the 7.4km test from Puerto Banús to Marbella which opens the Tour of Spain." His comment included "emoticons to express alarm and confusion" after previewing the route with his eight Team Sky colleagues (PA, 8/20).

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