{"id":11897,"date":"2022-10-04T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/04\/asian-winter-games-to-be-held-in-trojena-saudi-arabia-in-2029\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:06:03","slug":"asian-winter-games-to-be-held-in-trojena-saudi-arabia-in-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=11897","title":{"rendered":"Asian Winter Games to be held in Trojena, Saudi Arabia in 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Trojena, NEOM City, is a man-made mountain resort set for completion in 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Saudi Arabia has won the right to host the Asian Winter Games in 2029.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Games will take place in Trojena, Neom city, a planned mountain resort that is due to be completed in 2026. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Surrounded by the Sarawat mountains, temperatures are cooler in the region and it aims to be a year-round destination for winter sports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Neom chief executive Nadhmi Al-Nasr said the venue “will have a suitable infrastructure to create the winter atmosphere in the heart of the desert”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tourist destination will have the Gulf’s first outdoor ski resort, a man-made freshwater lake and is planned to be powered by renewable energy.<\/span><\/p>\n

There will be natural snow on the mountains but some artificial snow will also be used.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the latest event to be hosted by Saudi Arabia as they increase their presence in sport – leading to accusations the country is using sport to enhance its reputation following criticism over its human rights record.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August, British boxer Anthony Joshua fought Oleksandr Usyk in the city of Jeddah, while the <\/span>controversial LIV Golf league<\/span><\/a> is funded by Saudi Arabia. <\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2021, a Saudi Arabian-backed <\/span>\u00a3305m takeover of Newcastle United was completed.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The decision to host a winter sports event in Saudi Arabia has drawn criticism too. Madeleine Orr, from Loughborough University’s Sport Ecology Group, told BBC Sport: “From a business standpoint, it makes complete sense to go to a new market and try to grow winter sport there.”<\/span><\/p>\n

But she added: “These growth goals are antithetical to environmental goals: there’s no version of a winter sport event in Saudi Arabia that will be sustainable as it will require enormous water and energy resources, indoor sport spaces and an insane amount of travel.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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