Rogge, in Guangzhou for a three-day visit, told China’s Xinhua news agency on Saturday that “you can only judge the organization after the last day ... but I am very confident.” Rogge praised the spectacular opening ceremony Friday night, and attended competition events on Saturday. The games end Nov. 27.

Guangzhou is the second Chinese city to host the Asian Games. Beijing, which held the Summer Olympics in 2008, staged the event in 1990.

When asked if Guangzhou was capable of hosting an Olympics, Rogge said: “Guangzhou definitely has the skill to do that.” He was also confident that the emergence of Asian athletes that gained momentum at the Athens Olympics and accelerated at Beijing would continue to London.

“In 2004, at the end of the Athens Olympics I said ...’we saw the rise of Asian continent in sport, as there were great performances, not just by China, but also by Japan, Korea and Thailand,” Rogge was quoted as saying. “This has been confirmed in Beijing 2008, where your country was No. 1 in the gold medal count with 51 gold. And this would continue definitely at London 2012.”