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HANGZHOU, China: The Afghanistan women's volleyball team has lamented training conditions at the Asian Games and are concerned they will not be ready for an event where they are participating in defiance of the country's Taliban rulers.
Canada finished its run at a women's Olympic volleyball qualifying tournament with a 3-0 win over the Czech Republic on Sunday in Ningbo, China.
HANGZHOU, China: The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said it was happy for the North Korea flag to keep flying at the Hangzhou Asian Games despite it being banned over the country's non-compliance with global anti-doping rules.
The Indian women's football team failed to qualify for the knockout stage of the Asian Games after their 0-1 defeat to Thailand on Sunday. Indian side fought bravely but a 52nd minute goal from Thongrong Parichat helped Thailand to emerge winner in their Group B match. India had lost their Asian Games opener to Chinese Taipei 1-2. The defeat against Thailand also ended their chances of finishing among the three second placed teams, who will enter the knockouts along with five top-ranked sides, from five groups.
The impressive run of star swimmer Srihari Nataraj and Indian women's team ended with sixth and seventh place finishes in the finals of men's 100m backstroke and 4x100m freestyle relay respectively at the Asian Games on Sunday. Srihari, who had touched the pad at 54.71s to finish second in his heat and fifth overall to progress to the final, came up a timing of 54.48 seconds in the final. He was 2.25 behind gold medallist Xu Jiayu (52.23) of China. Irie Ryosuke of Japan (53.46) and Korea's Lee Juho (53.54) won the silver and bronze medals respectively. The women's team comprising Olympian Maana Patel, Dhinidhi Desinghu, Janvi Choudhary and Shivangi Sarma clocked 3:54:66 in the final to take the seventh place. China, Japan and Hong Kong won the gold, silver and bronze respectively.
HANGZHOU : The three Indian martial arts athletes unable to compete at the Hangzhou Asian Games due to a politically-charged visa issue are "mentally broken" by the affair, team-mates told Reuters on Sunday.
HANGZHOU: Host nation China won the first gold medal of the Asian Games on Sunday (Sep 24), when Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping dominated the women's lightweight double sculls rowing final.
Riding on a Sunil Chhetri strike, the Indian men's football team held Myanmar to a 1-1 draw and progressed to the round of 16 in the Asian Games on Sunday. They will play Saudi Arabia in the pre-quarters. Chhetri scored from the spot in the 23rd minute but it was Rahim Ali who earned the penalty when he was brought down inside the box by Hein Zeyar Lin. While Lin was shown a yellow card for his sliding tackle, the peerless Chhetri made no mistake in finding the back of the net, in what was a repeat of the act he performed against Bangladesh in the second group game two days ago.