On Saturday, 31 August, the eighth of Germany's biggest sports Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle in the Rhein-Energie Stadium opened. Among the 10,000 participants from 70 nations are 95 Austrians. In addition, expected at the Cologne Gay Games Cologne around one million visitors.
As of 7 August will measure a total of 35 sports competitions in disciplines such as soccer, water polo, swimming, volleyball, arts and diving, powerlifting, table tennis, or even bodybuilding, bowling and golf in 19 sports facilities and venues. Anyone can participate regardless of ability, age, sexual orientation, race, gender, nationality, political or religious beliefs, ethnic orientation or HIV status, according to the organizers of the Games Cologne GmbH
By the Federation of Gay Games (FGG) Gay Games are organized every four years since 1982, held in cities around the world. Cologne to Amsterdam this year (1998), the second European venue. Still, gays and lesbians are persecuted in many countries of this world and sometimes even punished with death. The Gay Games is the world's most popular sports event without access restrictions as a demonstration of freedom for the rights of all people, not just for gays and lesbians.
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