Jalolov wins super-heavyweight crown, Kurash medallist tests positive

HANGZHOU, China: Uzbekistan's Bakhodir Jalolov won super-heavyweight boxing gold and China's women's basketballers beat their arch-rivals Japan in a thriller at the Asian Games on Thursday.

Tokyo Olympic champion and twice world champion Jalolov, 29, beat Kazakhstan's Kamshybek Kunkabayev, 31, on points to take gold and continue his impressive record. The two-metre tall southpaw is also unbeaten in 13 professional fights.

There was bad news for Uzbekistan's neighbours Turkmenistan after their top placed finisher at the Games so far, Kurash men's +90kg silver medallist Tejen Tejenov, tested positive for banned substances and has been provisionally suspended, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said.

Tejenov is the first medallist and fifth athlete at the Hangzhou Games to have been reported by the ITA as failing a drugs test. The 30-year-old is a former judoka and wrestler who came seventh in Judo at the Jakarta 2018 Games.

Tejenov's test sample was taken on Sept. 30 during the Kurash men's +90kg finals, and returned an "adverse analytical finding for the non-specified prohibited substances dehydrochloromethyl-testosterone metabolite and methasterone metabolites", the ITA said.

In the men's cycling road race Kazakhstan's Yevgeniy Federov, 23, and Alexey Lutsenko, 31, crossed the finish line arm in arm, a whopping five minutes 42 seconds ahead of Jambaltsamts Sainbayar in third.

Federov took the gold. He said the pair decided he should be allowed to win because Lutsenko already had four Asian Games golds, including in Tuesday's time trial. But his team mate shared a slightly different account.

"It’s me who decided who win the gold ... I’m just kidding," said Lutsenko after finishing the 210km course. "We tried to reach the