The Irish Times, an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper, has published an article by sports journalist Ian O`Riordan, dedicated to the first-ever European Games that are underway in Baku.
"From the airport, the road into Baku quickly opens into a free-flowing five-lane highway, neatly landscaped on either side with freshly planted green conifers and blue cedars. This may be the carefully staged ‘wow’ into the city, although there is no disguising the fact Azerbaijan is transforming itself at breakneck speed, and is simply taking sporting events like this one along for the ride. Off in the hilly distance, there appears to be clusters of less inviting habitats, but otherwise the city is gleaming under the big hard sun, alongside the shining Caspian Sea. The most recently completed jewel in this city landscape soon appears, the Baku Olympic Stadium, just a few metres off the highway, standing in spectacular isolation, as if already a monument to itself," said the article.
Ian O`Riordan also noted that a wonderful work has so far been done in Azerbaijan’s capital in connection with the preparations for the first European Games and in order to promote the Baku 2015 beyond the country.
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The Irish Times dedicates article to Baku 2015
18 June 2015
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