In two days, more than 17,000 athletes, coaches and other officials will descend on Jakarta, to participate in what is easily the biggest sporting event after the Olympics.
But delays and budget cutbacks have meant Erick Thohir, the Asian Games' coordinator, had a fraction of the time and the money to pull off the event in a city with a reputation for dysfunction.
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