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The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the ASPIRE Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010. ==Bidding and organisation== The IAAF announced on March 25, 2007 at an IAAF Council meeting in Mombasa, Kenya that it had received bids from Turkey and Qatar to host the championships. On November 25, in a Council meeting in Monaco, the IAAF announced that Doha would host the championships.〔(Basic Information Guide - 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships 2010 - Doha - QAT ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-10-07.〕 This was the first time that a world athletics championship was held in the Middle-East and the second time the World Indoor Championships was held outside of Europe or North America (after the 1999 Championships in Japan).〔(Record breaking gathering expected in Doha - 150 countries confirm participation ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.〕 The venue for the event was the indoor arena located within Doha's Aspire Zone – the ASPIRE Dome, which has previously hosted indoor athletics for the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.〔Ramsak, Bob (2009-11-04). (The Aspire Dome, centre stage for Doha 2010 ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-26.〕 The World Indoor Championships was the first of two significant athletics events to take place in Doha in 2010 – the inaugural 2010 IAAF Diamond League will begin with the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix meeting in May.〔(Doha indoors to Doha outdoors - Two months to go to IAAF Diamond League ). IAAF (2010-03-15). Retrieved on 2010-03-17.〕 Prior to the championships, the Qatar organising committee held the Doha Indoor Athletics Meeting for Juniors as a test event for the venue. The meeting began on 26 February and featured junior athletes from 11 countries within the region competing in a total of 13 events.〔(The Doha Indoor Athletics Meeting for Juniors to be Organized in Aspire ). QAAF (2010-02-21). Retrieved on 2010-02-26.〕 The competition set a new high for the number of nations at the World Indoor Championships: 150 countries sent teams to the championships, with a total of 374 men and 283 women athletes entered to compete.〔 The competition mascot was an anthropomorphic caracal named Saham – the caracal is a medium-sized cat which is native to the Middle-East.〔(Doha 2010 Unveils Official Brand Mascot “Saham” ). Doha 2010 (2009-12-13). Retrieved on 2010-03-11.〕 The inclusion of a mascot follows on from the mainstream success of the 2009 World Championships in Athletics mascot – Berlino the Bear.〔Fordyce, Tom (2009-08-21). (Berlino the Bear - love him or loathe him? ). BBC Sport. Retrieved on 2010-03-11.〕 The IAAF extended live audio and video coverage of the championships to the internet for certain countries,〔(Follow Doha 2010 – Read, Listen, Watch… ). IAAF (2010-03-11). Retrieved on 2010-03-11.〕 including a deal with IEC in Sports which saw events available live and on-demand via Dailymotion. This was the first deal of its kind for the competition.〔(Athletics: New partnership agreement with Dailymotion for live and VOD broadcast of the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha ). IAAF (2010-03-11). Retrieved on 2010-03-11.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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