page_title: Bids for the 2018 Asian Games
section_title: Cancelled bids
hierarchical_section_title: Bids for the 2018 Asian Games / First selection / Cancelled bids
caption_attribution_description: shot from Burn khalifa
context_page_description: Three cities submitted bids to host the 2018 Asian Games that were recognized by the Olympic Council of Asia. The games were awarded to Hanoi, Vietnam. The other shortlisted city was Surabaya, Indonesia. This came after Dubai and the United Arab Emirates pulled out of the running at the last minute during the Olympic Council of Asia General Assembly meeting on November 8, 2012.
  Additionally, the Games were originally scheduled for 2018, but during the Olympic Council of Asia's General Assembly meeting in Singapore on July 3, 2009, the committee decided to move the Games to the year before the 2020 Summer Olympics, which means that the 18th Asian Games will be held in 2019.
  However, on April 17, 2014, the Vietnamese Government announced it was withdrawing from hosting the Games.
  On 19 September 2014, the Olympic Council of Asia executive board approved Indonesia as the host of the 2018 games. The Games were rescheduled from 2019 to 2018, since they will hold elections that year.
caption: Skyscraper in Dubai
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "ACD Systems Digital Imaging", "Image DateTime": "2016:12:30 00:03:54", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "174", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "500", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4517", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/10", "EXIF FNumber": "7/2", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "800", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2016:12:29 20:29:34", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2016:12:29 20:29:34", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "415241/125000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "361471/100000", "EXIF FocalLength": "1250000/89627", "EXIF SubSecTime": "74", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "9127", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3528", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "428", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "14"}