## I Was Wronged, Hope Korea Hosts Better World Championship:Sarita ##

NEW DELHI: She has offered unconditional apology for an emotionally-charged protest at the Asian Games but Indian boxer L Sarita Devi hoped that her outburst would ensure better judging at next month's World Championship in Korea -- the country where she felt "wronged".

Speaking to PTI after returning from Incheon, Korea with a controversial bronze medal, which she refused to accept at the presentation ceremony, Sarita said the episode has left her "mentally drained".

"I hope the judging is better in the World Championship (scheduled from November 13 to 25 in Jeju Islands). Korea is hosting it and I am hoping that my protest will make some difference to the standard of judging. I hope nobody feels wronged like I did. No boxer should go through this, we work so hard," she said.

Sarita lost a contentious semifinal in the Asian Games to Korean Jina Park despite dominating the bout. The Indian later cried bitterly at the podium and refused to wear the medal that was presented to her.

She instead gave it to Park as a mark of protest during the ceremony.

Sarita later offered an "unconditional apology" to AIBA for her actions. "I apologised because I did not want any other Indian boxer to suffer. I fight for my country and by apologising I have tried to ensure that no other Indian gets affected. I feel I was wronged," she said.

"We suffered a lot due to the federation's termination earlier, I didn't want anything new to affect our boxers."

Recalling her emotional moments at the podium, Sarita said she was not in control. 

"I could not control myself on the podium. I offered her (Park) the medal because that's what she deserved. I deserved better. “

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President greets Asian Games heroes at Rashtrapati Bhavan

President Pratibha Patil admires the gold medal of Ashwini Akkunji as other athletes look on during a meeting with medal winners of the recently concluded 16th Asian Games in China, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday. President Pratibha Patil today hailed the efforts of Indian athletes, who brought glory to the country in the recently- concluded Asian Games at Guangzhou and encouraged them to maintain their golden run. During a felicitation ceremony here at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Patil congratulated the Asian Games gold medal winners and greeted them with flowers. However, a notable absentee on the occasion was the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chief and Commonwealth Games Organising Committee President Suresh Kalmadi. It is important to note that earlier Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had also given him a royal snub after the Delhi Games when he met the CWG medal winners. Meanwhile, talking to the reporters during the function athletes said they were overwhelmed by President ’s gesture and would like to further improve upon their performances to put up a better show during the London Olympics 2012. “It is a dream come true. I had never even imagined that I would meet the President some day. The gesture puts an added responsibility on our shoulders to improve our performances and make the country proud in the forthcoming Olympics,” said Joseph Abraham, who etched his name into record books after becoming the first Indian to grab gold in the men ’s 400m hurdles during the recently concluded Games in China. Ashwini Akkunji, who raced to glory with her exemplary golden double in the women ’s 400m hurdles and was also a part of the women ’s 4x400m relay, expressed her gratitude to the people of country and said that without their support she would not have been able to attain the feat. “When I was running it was quite heartening to see the people of my country cheering and supporting me. Although there were only few Indian fans present during the event but to see tears in their eyes after every run encouraged me and that is something I can never forget, ” an elated athlete said. “I am thankful to my parents who supported me. The credit goes to my coaches who motivated me to go a step forward, ” added Ashwini. The small town girl from the coastal town of Udupi in Karnataka said she trained really hard for the Asiad, particularly for the hurdles, even though she started just a month before the Games. “I never expected a gold in hurdles as I started my preparations late for the event. But I tried to give my best, ” insisted Ashwini, adding, “I still need to do a lot of things to improve and be in the reckoning for the Olympics. ” The Indian teen sensation Vikas Krishan who humbled defending champion Qing Hu of China to win India a gold in the lightweight (60kg) category said, “ I never expected that one day I will meet the President, it is just like a dream and it encourages me to bring more laurels to the country. ” Among others who were present on the occasion were the gold medallists of men ’s and women’s Kabaddi teams apart from Bajrang Lal Thakkar, who won India ’s first gold medal in rowing and gold medal winner in men’s double trap shooting Ranjan Sodhi. However, the star Indian boxer Vijender Singh could not make it to the function

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China funded Indian team to win water polo gold

BANGALORE:That China never let go even a
single medal
winning
opportunity at the just
concluded Asian Games is no
secret. They successfully lobbied
for the inclusion of popular
Chinese sports like Weiqi and
Xianqqi in the 16th edition of
the Games. They even denied
entry to a strong Indian
equestrian team to help the
Chinese riders.
But as strange as this may
sound, the same Chinese
authorities 'sponsored' a weak
Indian women's water polo
team that competed in the
quadrennial event. The China
Waterpolo Association worked
overtime to ensure that the
Indian eves arrived in
Guangzhou in time for the
competition. Their travel
documents were processed with
due diligence even as some of
the Indian journalists waited for
months to get the visa approval.
It spent around Rs 6 lakh for
the 15-member contingent's air
travel. Besides, the players were
provided accommodation at the
Games Village.
Why did China take such a huge
interest in the participation of an
Indian team? Reason: They got
one more gold medal from an
event which was on the verge of
becoming a non-medal sport.
Women's water polo, which
made its debut in Guangzhou,
had attracted only three entries.
So the presence of a fourth
team became inevitable to be
counted as a medal event. At
this juncture, CSA requested the
Swimming Federation of India
(SFI) to send the Indian team.
China spent a lot of energy and
money to get India's
participation. They got the
reward in the gold medal, a top
official from Asia Swimming
Federation told TOI on
condition of anonymity. Fancied
China clinched the gold,
demolishing the other three
opponents. Kazakhstan took
home the silver while Uzbekistan
claimed bronze.
The Indian eves, as expected,
cut a sorry figure, finishing at
the bottom of the table. They
conceded 96 goals in three
matches -- a whopping average
of 32 goals per match -- while
managing to score only six
goals. China and Kazakhstan
fired 38 goals each against India
while Uzbekistan pumped in 20.
Back home, swimming observers
raised a hue and cry over the
team's pathetic show. But SFI
general secretary Virendra
Nanavati remains unfazed and
defends the federation's
decision to send the team. "CSA
had offered an all-expenses
paid trip for our women's team.
Had we not sent our team,
waterpolo's future at the Games
would have been in jeopardy,"
he told TOI.
"We had picked the team for
the Commonwealth Waterpolo
Championship scheduled to be
held in the first week of
November in Chennai.
Unfortunately, it was cancelled
following the withdrawal of
Canada, England and New
Zealand. We had the team
ready at our disposal. When we
got the request from our
Chinese counterpart, we
decided to send them
immediately," he added. "We
wanted water polo to remain as
an event at the Asian Games.
The OCA may be tempted to
drop the event in the next
edition citing lesser number of
entries."
Nanavati also said the federation
did not take a single penny from
the players. "It's an all-expenses
paid trip. Then why should we
take money from the players?"
he asked.
On the composition of the team,
Nanavati said all the national
campers, who had a passport
when the invite came, were
allowed to go to China. "It is not
true that players from Police
were denied the opportunity.
Two Police players were there in
the camp, and only one had a
passport," he added.

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Australian company to design stadium for 2014 Asian Games

A QUEENSLAND company has won the contract to design a $400 million stadium for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. The company, Populous, has gained a worldwide reputation for its stadium designs after success with Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, Gold Coast's Skilled Park and the main arena for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Trade Minister Stephen Robertson, who plans to meet with Incheon Mayor Sang-soo Ahn today during his Asia trade mission, said it was a major coup for the company. "This contract in Korea, with work now well under way in Brisbane, is creating jobs and assisting to cement Queensland's reputation as a leader in the international sporting infrastructure and event industry," Mr Robertson said. "A team of 10 architects in Brisbane is working on the project." Populous had also undertaken design consultancy for major projects across Asia, such as China's Tianjin XiQing Sports Park for the 2013 East Asian Games and Taiwan's Taipei Dome, a 40,000-seat covered baseball arena. "Populous's design work is synonymous with quality sporting events around the world, but this new deal in partnership with a local firm to design the 70,000- seat Incheon stadium is the company's first foray into Korea," Mr Robertson said. "The stadium project is exciting in that it promotes a new era of designing sustainable venues for major events. "The stadium will be designed so that it can be reduced in size to 30,000 capacity following the Games." Mr Robertson said Queensland merchandise exports to Korea were worth more than $6.3billion, ranking Korea the state's third-largest merchandise export destination. The 17th Asian Games – the continent's largest sporting event – is expected to attract about 12,000 athletes and staff from 45 countries and regions. Populous senior principal Andrew James, who will address the Asia Pacific Cities Summit about the new stadium in Incheon on Thursday, said it was an innovative design. "The 70,000-seat multi-purpose stadium builds on the design developed by Populous for the main stadium for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and illustrates a new level of sustainable design in major public infrastructure built for events such as Olympics or Asian Games," Mr James said. "The key to the Incheon stadium's success will be reducing it down to 30,000 seats in its legacy mode and linking it into the surrounding parklands to make it an open accessible building for all its people. This way it can achieve a connection with the community that is vital to securing its long-term sustainability and a true legacy for the people of Incheon." Mr James said the stadium would be the first landmark building people saw when travelling to Seoul from the Incheon international airport. (Source: GAGOC)

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Australian company to design stadium for 2014 Asian Games

A QUEENSLAND company has won the contract to design a $400 million stadium for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. The company, Populous, has gained a worldwide reputation for its stadium designs after success with Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, Gold Coast's Skilled Park and the main arena for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Trade Minister Stephen Robertson, who plans to meet with Incheon Mayor Sang-soo Ahn today during his Asia trade mission, said it was a major coup for the company. "This contract in Korea, with work now well under way in Brisbane, is creating jobs and assisting to cement Queensland's reputation as a leader in the international sporting infrastructure and event industry," Mr Robertson said. "A team of 10 architects in Brisbane is working on the project." Populous had also undertaken design consultancy for major projects across Asia, such as China's Tianjin XiQing Sports Park for the 2013 East Asian Games and Taiwan's Taipei Dome, a 40,000-seat covered baseball arena. "Populous's design work is synonymous with quality sporting events around the world, but this new deal in partnership with a local firm to design the 70,000- seat Incheon stadium is the company's first foray into Korea," Mr Robertson said. "The stadium project is exciting in that it promotes a new era of designing sustainable venues for major events. "The stadium will be designed so that it can be reduced in size to 30,000 capacity following the Games." Mr Robertson said Queensland merchandise exports to Korea were worth more than $6.3billion, ranking Korea the state's third-largest merchandise export destination. The 17th Asian Games – the continent's largest sporting event – is expected to attract about 12,000 athletes and staff from 45 countries and regions. Populous senior principal Andrew James, who will address the Asia Pacific Cities Summit about the new stadium in Incheon on Thursday, said it was an innovative design. "The 70,000-seat multi-purpose stadium builds on the design developed by Populous for the main stadium for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and illustrates a new level of sustainable design in major public infrastructure built for events such as Olympics or Asian Games," Mr James said. "The key to the Incheon stadium's success will be reducing it down to 30,000 seats in its legacy mode and linking it into the surrounding parklands to make it an open accessible building for all its people. This way it can achieve a connection with the community that is vital to securing its long-term sustainability and a true legacy for the people of Incheon." Mr James said the stadium would be the first landmark building people saw when travelling to Seoul from the Incheon international airport. (Source: GAGOC)

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Australian company to design stadium for 2014 Asian Games

A QUEENSLAND company has won the contract to design a $400 million stadium for the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. The company, Populous, has gained a worldwide reputation for its stadium designs after success with Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, Gold Coast's Skilled Park and the main arena for the 2012 London Olympic Games. Trade Minister Stephen Robertson, who plans to meet with Incheon Mayor Sang-soo Ahn today during his Asia trade mission, said it was a major coup for the company. "This contract in Korea, with work now well under way in Brisbane, is creating jobs and assisting to cement Queensland's reputation as a leader in the international sporting infrastructure and event industry," Mr Robertson said. "A team of 10 architects in Brisbane is working on the project." Populous had also undertaken design consultancy for major projects across Asia, such as China's Tianjin XiQing Sports Park for the 2013 East Asian Games and Taiwan's Taipei Dome, a 40,000-seat covered baseball arena. "Populous's design work is synonymous with quality sporting events around the world, but this new deal in partnership with a local firm to design the 70,000- seat Incheon stadium is the company's first foray into Korea," Mr Robertson said. "The stadium project is exciting in that it promotes a new era of designing sustainable venues for major events. "The stadium will be designed so that it can be reduced in size to 30,000 capacity following the Games." Mr Robertson said Queensland merchandise exports to Korea were worth more than $6.3billion, ranking Korea the state's third-largest merchandise export destination. The 17th Asian Games – the continent's largest sporting event – is expected to attract about 12,000 athletes and staff from 45 countries and regions. Populous senior principal Andrew James, who will address the Asia Pacific Cities Summit about the new stadium in Incheon on Thursday, said it was an innovative design. "The 70,000-seat multi-purpose stadium builds on the design developed by Populous for the main stadium for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and illustrates a new level of sustainable design in major public infrastructure built for events such as Olympics or Asian Games," Mr James said. "The key to the Incheon stadium's success will be reducing it down to 30,000 seats in its legacy mode and linking it into the surrounding parklands to make it an open accessible building for all its people. This way it can achieve a connection with the community that is vital to securing its long-term sustainability and a true legacy for the people of Incheon." Mr James said the stadium would be the first landmark building people saw when travelling to Seoul from the Incheon international airport. (Source: GAGOC)

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Indian team was the best in Asian Games: Sandeep Singh

NEW DELHI: Disappointed with the bronze medal finish at the Asian Games, ace drag flicker Sandeep Singh on Sunday said that the Indian hockey team was the best in the quadrennial event but lack of video referral system deprived the team of a well-deserved victory against Malaysia in the semifinal. India had defeated arch-rivals Pakistan in the league phase and defending champion Korea in the bronze medal play-off. The Rajpal Singh-led team lost to Malaysia through Muhammad Amin Rahim's golden goal in the semis despite leading 3-2 till the 67th minute. Amin had earlier converted a penalty corner to equalise. The former captain, who scored the highest number of goals (11) in the tournament, echoed the sentiments of chief coach Jose Brasa in condemning the standard of umpiring. "After watching the videos of the semifinal we realised that the penalty corner, from which Malaysia scored their third goal, should actually have been a hit in our favour. The ball hit the foot of a Malaysian before it touched Gurbaj Singh. Similarly we deserved a penalty stroke at the last minute. It was poor umpiring which put us out of the title contention," Sandeep said. "India was definitely the best team in the tournament. We had defeated Pakistan and Korea. We were better than other teams in all departments of the game," he said. The ace full back was playing in his first Asian Games and wanted to give his best. "I could not play Doha Asiad and the World Cup in 2006 due to the unfortunate bullet injury. This was my first Asian Games and I wanted to be part of the gold-medal winning team. My personal aim was to score the maximum goals and my conversion rate was more then 75 per cent. I am happy with my performance but not winning the yellow metal will haunt us for a long time to come," he said. Asked about how the team members lifted their morale after the semifinal loss he said, "we wanted to win at any cost to finish on the winning note." "We were disappointed (at the loss) but we wanted a podium finish. A medal is a medal and bronze was still there in our hand." Sandeep has not thought about the Olympic qualifiers as yet neither he thinks that the tragedy of losing the last qualifiers will add additional pressure on the team. "I had not played the qualifiers in 2008 but I am sure that there will be no additional pressure on the team. If we continue the rhythm, we will win the qualifiers and play in the London Olympics in 2012," said Sandeep. Sandeep, however, declined to comment on the issue of renewal of coach Brasa's contract which is expiring on November 30th. "This is between Brasa, SAI and Hockey India. I would not like to comment on it," he said.

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Asian Games 2010 Athletics - Result And Medal Tally

Men's Marathon (27-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold JI Youngjun South Korea Silver KITAOKA Yukihiro Japan Bronze SHAMI Mubarak Hassan Qatar Women's Marathon (27-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold ZHOU Chunxiu China Silver ZHU Xiaolin China Bronze KIM Kum Ok DPR Korea Men's Shot Put (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold ALHABASHI Sultan Aboulmajeed Saudi Arabia Silver ZHANG Jun China Bronze CHANG Ming Huang Chinese Taipei Men's 4 x 400m Relay (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia Silver Japan Japan Bronze China China Women's 4 x 400m Relay (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold India India Silver KAZAKHSTAN Kazakhstan Bronze CHINA China Men's Triple Jump (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LI Yanxi China Silver EKTOV Yevgeniy Kazakhstan Bronze CAO Shuo China Men's 10,000m (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold GELASSA Bilisuma Bahrain Silver RASHED Essa Ismail Qatar Bronze MAHBOOB Mahboob Bahrain Men's Javelin Throw (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold MURAKAMI Yukifumi Japan Silver PARK Jaemyoung South Korea Bronze TARZUMANOV Rinat Uzbekistan Men's 4 x 100m Relay (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold China China Silver Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei Bronze Thailand Thailand Women's High Jump (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold RADZIVIL Svetlana Uzbekistan Silver DUSANOVA Nadiya Uzbekistan Bronze ZHENG Xingjuan China Bronze USTINOVA Anna Kazakhstan Women's 5000m (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold GEBREGEIORGES Mimi Bahrain Silver Preeja Sredharan India Bronze Kavita Raut India Women's 4 x 100m Relay (26-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold Thailand Thailand Silver China China Bronze Japan Japan Women's Javelin Throw (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold EBIHARA Yuki Japan Silver XUE Juan China Bronze LI Lingwei China Men's Decathlon (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold KARPOV Dmitriy Kazakhstan Silver KIM Kun Woo South Korea Bronze VU van Huyen Vietnam Men's 400m Hurdles (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold Joseph Abraham India Silver Shabeerali Bandar Yahya Saudi Arabia Bronze KAWAKITA Naohiro Japan Women's 400m Hurdles (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold Ashwini Chidanada India Silver WANG Xing China Bronze KUBOKURA Satomi Japan Women's Triple Jump (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold RYPAKOVA Olga Kazakhstan Silver XIE Limei China Bronze MUANGJAN Thitima Thailand Men's 200m (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold OGUNODE Femi Seun Qatar Silver FUJIMITSU Kenji Japan Bronze ALSALFA Omar Juma United Arab Emirates Women's 200m (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold FUKUSHIMA Chisato Japan Silver VU Thi Huong Vietnam Bronze KHUBBIEVA Guzel Uzbekistan Men's 800m (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold MORADI Sajad Iran Silver ALMNTFAGE Adnan Iraq Bronze BALA Musaab Abdelrehiman Qatar Women's 800m (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold MATSKO Margarita Kazakhstan Silver TRUONG Thanh Hang Vietnam Bronze Tintu Lukka India Women's 100m Hurdles (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LEE Yeon Kyung South Korea Silver IVONINSKAYA Natalya Kazakhstan Bronze SUN Yawei China Men's 50km Race Walking (25-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold SI Tianfeng China Silver LI Lei China Bronze ORIOKA Koichiro Japan Men's 110m Hurdles (24-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LIU Xiang China Silver SHI Dongpeng China Bronze PARK Taekyong South Korea Men's Discus Throw (24-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold HADADI Ehsan Iran Silver DHEEB Ahmed Mohammed Qatar Bronze SAMIMI Mohammad Iran Men's Long Jump (24-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold KIM Deokhyeon South Korea Silver SU Xiongfeng China Bronze ALSABA Hussain Taher Saudi Arabia Women's Pole Vault (24-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LI Caixia China Silver LI Ling China Bronze ABIKO Tomomi Japan Women's Heptathlon (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold TARASOVA Yuliya Uzbekistan Silver NAKATA Yuki Japan Bronze GUDANDDA Pramila India Men's 3000m Steeplechase (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold TAHER Tareq Mubarak Salem Bahrain Silver ALI Thamer Kamal Qatar Bronze ALAMRI Ali Ahmad S Saudi Arabia Women's Long Jump (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold JUNG Soonok South Korea Silver RYPAKOVA Olga Kazakhstan Bronze TARASOVA Yuliya Uzbekistan Men's High Jump (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold BARSHIM Mutaz Essa Qatar Silver TAKAHARI Hiromi Japan Bronze TSYKUNOV Vitaliy Kazakhstan Bronze AL MANNAI Rashidah Qatar Bronze HUANG Haiqiang China Women's Discus Throw (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LI Yanfeng China Silver SONG Aimin China Bronze Krishna Poonia India Men's 1500m (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold SHAWEEN Mohammed Saudi Arabia Silver MORADI Sajad Iran Bronze ALI Belal Mansoor Bahrain Women's 1500m (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold JAMAL Maryam Yusuf Isa Bahrain Silver TRUONG Thanh Hang Vietnam Bronze GEBREGEIORGES Mimi Bahrain Women's 20km Race Walking (23-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LIU Hong China Silver FUCHISE Masumi Japan Bronze LI Yanfei China Women's 100m (22-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold FUKUSHIMA Chisato Japan Silver KHUBBIEVA Guzel Uzbekistan Bronze VU Thi Huong Vietnam Men's Pole Vault (22-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold YANG Yansheng China Silver KIM Yoo Suk South Korea Silver ANDREEV Leonid Uzbekistan Men's 100m (22-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LAO Yi China Silver ALNASHRI Yasir Saudi Arabia Bronze AL HARTHI Barakat Oman Women's Hammer Throw (22-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold ZHANG Wenxiu China Silver WANG Zheng China Bronze MUROFUSHI Yuka Japan Women's 400m (22-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold TERESHKOVA Olga Kazakhstan Silver CHIBA Asami Japan Bronze MASLYONKO Marina Kazakhstan Men's 400m (22-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold OGUNODE Femi Seun Qatar Silver KANEMARU Yuzo Japan Bronze MASRAHI Yousef Ahmed Saudi Arabia Women's 3000m Steeplechase (21-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold SINGH Sudha India Silver JIN Yuan China Bronze HAYAKARI Minori Japan Men's 5000m (21-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold MAHBOOB Mahboob Bahrain Silver C KURUI James Kwalia Qatar Bronze KIBORE Felix Kikwal Qatar Men's Hammer Throw (21-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold NAZAROV Dilshod Tajikistan Silver MOUSAVI Kaveh Iran Bronze DOI Hiroaki Japan Women's 10,000m (21-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold SREEDHARAN Preeja India Silver RAUT Kavita India Bronze HABTEGEBREL Shitay Bahrain Women's Shot Put (21-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold LI Ling China Silver GONG Lijiao China Bronze LEE Mi Young South Korea Men's 20km Race Walking (21-11-2010) Medal Athlete Name Country Gold WANG Hao China Silver CHU Yafei China Bronze KIM Hyunsub South Korea

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2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Medal Count/Tally

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 China (CHN) 199 119 98 416 2 South Korea (KOR) 76 65 91 232 3 Japan (JPN) 48 74 94 216 4 Iran (IRI) 20 14 25 59 5 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 18 23 38 79 6 India (IND) 14 17 33 64 7 Chinese Taipei (TPE) 13 16 38 67 8 Uzbekistan (UZB) 11 22 23 56 9 Thailand (THA) 11 9 32 52 10 Malaysia (MAS) 9 18 14 41 11 Hong Kong (HKG) 8 15 17 40 12 North Korea (PRK) 6 10 20 36 13 Saudi Arabia (KSA) 5 3 5 13 14 Bahrain (BRN) 5 0 4 9 15 Indonesia (INA) 4 9 13 26 16 Singapore (SIN) 4 7 6 17 17 Kuwait (KUW) 4 6 1 11 18 Qatar (QAT) 4 5 7 16 19 Philippines (PHI) 3 4 9 16 20 Pakistan (PAK) 3 2 3 8 21 Mongolia (MGL) 2 5 9 16 22 Myanmar (MYA) 2 5 3 10 23 Jordan (JOR) 2 2 2 6 24 Vietnam (VIE) 1 17 15 33 25 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 1 2 2 5 26 Macau (MAC) 1 1 4 6 27 Bangladesh (BAN) 1 1 1 3 28 Tajikistan (TJK) 1 0 3 4 29 Syria (SYR) 1 0 1 2 30 United Arab Emirates (UAE) 0 4 1 5 31 Afghanistan (AFG) 0 2 1 3 32 Iraq (IRQ) 0 1 2 3 32 Lebanon (LIB) 0 1 2 3 34 Laos (LAO) 0 0 2 2 35 Nepal (NEP) 0 0 1 1 35 Oman (OMA) 0 0 1 1 Total 477 479 621 1577

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Asian Games 2010: Bangladesh win first ever cricket gold medal NEWS STORIES RELATED TO:

UANGZHOU: Teenager Shabbir ahaman Roman smashed two ixes in the penultimate over to elp Bangladesh to a first Asian ames gold and dash fghanistan's hopes of a fairytale inish in yesterday's men's cricket inal. Chasing Afghanistan's 118, he 17-year-old's swashbuckling 3 not out swung the Twenty20 atch in Bangladesh's favor and hey won with three balls to pare, sparking wild celebrations s players rushed with billowing lags on to the ground and mbraced. e played like tigers today," the reen-eyed and wiry Rahaman oman told Reuters. "This is the appiest day of my life," added he teenager. The Afghan ricketers, mostly ethnic Pashtun rom the country's southeast, ere stonefaced after the loss. The Afghanistan people are aybe very sad," said Asghar tanikzai, his team's top-scorer n the day with an unbeaten 38. The silver medal is not (a) big edal but it was a good fight. ith the country's expectations eighing heavily on Afghan houlders to bring home a first sian Games gold, their opening atsmen appeared nervous at he crease. Kazi Shahadat ossain's standout fast bowling nsettled the opening order and he first wicket went for just one un. A great diving catch near he boundary by Nazmul Hossain ismissed vice captain Karim han Sadeq. A gutsy innings by tanikzai, however, spurred fghanistan to a respectable 118 fter a middle-order collapse hreatened to leave t e team with a paltry score. The angladeshis, dressed in green, ost their first wicket in the third ver when opener Nazim Uddin cooped a high shot into the ands of Samiullah Shinwarai. HOWED METTLE he Afghans, who bowled and ielded aggressively, showed their ettle when Mohammed Mithun as run out in the eighth over ith a superb throw from the utfield. With the game poised n a knife edge, however, ahaman Rohan stepped orward, surviving a close lbw all, before swatting two straight ixes into the pavilion, sparking ild cheers by green-clad angladeshi supporters and hinese fans. For the small ontingent of Afghan supporters, ome wearing skull caps, there as disappointment but also race in efeat. "The world knows us for ighting, bombs and bullets but e want to make sure to the orld that we are not these hings only," said Abdul Khan, aving a large green, red and lack flag in the stands on a cool nd sunny afternoon. "We just eed a chance. And definitely I an assure you that our next lympics or Asian Games, we will o for gold again. ricket has become an creasingly popular sport in fghanistan with a number of cademies sprouting up across he wartorn and insurgency racked land after the game was troduced by Pashtuns who earnt to play in Pakistan refugee amps during the Russian vasion in the 1980s. In the ronze medal match, Pakistan eat Sri Lanka by six wickets to estore some pride after they ere beaten in the semi-finals by fghanistan on Thursday. akistan won gold in the omen's competition with angladesh taking silve . -

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China downplays historic Asian Games medal haul

China wrapped up the Asian Games with a record 199 gold medals, more than double its nearest rival but not quite enough for team leaders to relax preparations for the 2012 London Olympics. The Chinese appear driven to repeat their performance from Beijing two years ago, when they topped the gold medal count for the very first time at the Olympics.

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Asian Games 2010 Closing Ceremony

2010 Asian Games, specifically the 16 Asian Games, will be held from November 12 to 27, 2010, in Guangzhou, the biggest and most prosperous city in Southern China. The Asian Games is the second largest sports event in the world, only after the Summer Olympic Games. Closing Ceremony will be on 14th October 2010. The Games are being held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010, the largest multi-sport event conducted to date in India and Delhi, which are hosted the Asian Games in 1951 and 1982. Asian games is the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympics On 12 November, 2010 opening ceremony will be scheduled for 2010 Asian Games at Haixinsha Island in the Pearl River. The ceremony will be directed by Chen Weiya, the assistant director of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Ceremony will be start at 20:04 (UTC+8), with some 7,000 peoples contributed to the ceremony, team parade will be held at 21:00 (UTC+8), while "mystifying" lightning ceremony will be held at 21:42 (UTC+8). The ceremony will be held one by one at the sea and land. Closing ceremony will be on November 27, 2010, with a flag handover to 2014 Games will also include in this ceremony.

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Asian Games: Creating history, Takhar wins rowing gold

Guangzhou, Nov 19 (IBNS) Rower Bajrang Lal Takhar on Friday opened a new leaf for India ’s sporting history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold in the Asian Games ’ men’s singles sculls competition in China. Placed on lane 3, the Army officer, who had won the silver at Doha Asiad four years ago, led from the start and went on to cruise past his rivals and win the 2000m race clocking 7:04.78. He added another Gold medal for India after cueist Pankaj Advani in squash singles championship. Chinese Taipei’s Wang Ming Hui (7:07.33) took the silver while Iraq ’s Haeider Hamarasheid (7:10.10) won the bronze. Takhar had also bagged a gold medal at the Asian Championships in Korea, 2009. Takhar’s yellow medal came a day after India’s rowers had won two silver medals. Anil Kumar, Saji Thomas, Ranjit Singh and Jenil Krishnan won silver in the men ’s rowing Four while the the quartet of Lokesh Kumar, Manjeet Singh, Rajesh Kumar Yadav and Satish Joshi won silver in men ’s lightweight Four event. India’s Pratima Puhana and Pramila Prava Minz also created history by winning the bronze medal in the women ’s pair rowing event. They became the first women rowers to win a medal for India in the Asian Games. The Indian girls clocked 7:47.50 secs to finish third behind winners China and Kazakshtan. Chinese duo Sun Zhengping and Ling Hong clocked 7:22.06 secs for the gold and Kazakh girls Oxana Nazarova and Svetlana Germanovich had a timing of 7:35.13 secs. Indian rowers have won a total of gold, three silver and one bronze medal from the Interbational Rowing Center.

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India win women 4×400metres gold in Asian Games

Guanzghou, Nov 26 (IBNS) Indian women ’s 4×400m relay defended the gold medal won in 2006 with Ashwini Chidananda leading the team to the gold medal in the Asian Games here on Friday. Ashwini, who won the 400m hurdles gold, ran in the third leg and gave the Indian team a huge lead over second-placed Kazakhstan. In the last leg Mandeep Kaur maintained the lead to win the gold in 3min 29.02sec. In the first leg, India’s Manjeet Kaur was running second before Sini Jose gave a slender lead for Ashwini to take over. Kazakhstan took the silver in 3:30.03 while China claimed the bronze in 3:30.89. The quartet had won the title in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, though today ’s effort was well below 3:27.77 in the CWG. In 2006 Asian Games, Satti Geetha, Pinki Parmanik, Chitra K Soman and Manjeet Kaur had won the gold in 3:32.95. Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut clocked their personal bests to clinch the silver and bronze respectively in the women ’s 5000m final. Sreedharan, who earlier clinched the 10,000m gold, returned a timing of 15:15.89. Raut, who bagged silver in 10,000m, could not get past Sreedharan yet again but managed a personal best of 15:16.54 to win the bronze. Bahrain’s Mimi Belete Gebgregeiorges clinched the gold medal with a timing of 15:15.59, which was incidentally her personal best as well.

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India win women 4×400metres gold in Asian Games

Guanzghou, Nov 26 (IBNS) Indian women ’s 4×400m relay defended the gold medal won in 2006 with Ashwini Chidananda leading the team to the gold medal in the Asian Games here on Friday. Ashwini, who won the 400m hurdles gold, ran in the third leg and gave the Indian team a huge lead over second-placed Kazakhstan. In the last leg Mandeep Kaur maintained the lead to win the gold in 3min 29.02sec. In the first leg, India’s Manjeet Kaur was running second before Sini Jose gave a slender lead for Ashwini to take over. Kazakhstan took the silver in 3:30.03 while China claimed the bronze in 3:30.89. The quartet had won the title in the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, though today ’s effort was well below 3:27.77 in the CWG. In 2006 Asian Games, Satti Geetha, Pinki Parmanik, Chitra K Soman and Manjeet Kaur had won the gold in 3:32.95. Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut clocked their personal bests to clinch the silver and bronze respectively in the women ’s 5000m final. Sreedharan, who earlier clinched the 10,000m gold, returned a timing of 15:15.89. Raut, who bagged silver in 10,000m, could not get past Sreedharan yet again but managed a personal best of 15:16.54 to win the bronze. Bahrain’s Mimi Belete Gebgregeiorges clinched the gold medal with a timing of 15:15.59, which was incidentally her personal best as well.

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2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Medal Count/Tally (As of November 26, 2

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 China (CHN) 197 117 98 412 2 South Korea (KOR) 75 63 91 229 3 Japan (JPN) 47 73 94 214 4 Iran (IRI) 20 14 25 59 5 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 18 23 37 78 6 India (IND) 14 17 33 64 7 Chinese Taipei (TPE) 13 16 38 67 8 Uzbekistan (UZB) 11 22 23 56 9 Thailand (THA) 11 9 32 52 10 Malaysia (MAS) 9 18 14 41 11 Hong Kong (HKG) 8 15 16 39 12 North Korea (PRK) 6 10 18 34 13 Indonesia (INA) 4 11 12 25 14 Singapore (SIN) 4 7 6 17 15 Kuwait (KUW) 4 6 1 11 16 Qatar (QAT) 4 4 6 14 17 Bahrain (BRN) 4 0 3 7 18 Philippines (PHI) 3 3 9 15 19 Saudi Arabia (KSA) 3 3 5 11 20 Pakistan (PAK) 3 2 3 8 21 Jordan (JOR) 2 2 1 5 22 Vietnam (VIE) 1 17 14 32 23 Mongolia (MGL) 1 3 9 13 24 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) 1 2 2 5 25 Macau (MAC) 1 1 3 5 26 Bangladesh (BAN) 1 1 1 3 27 Tajikistan (TJK) 1 0 3 4 28 Syria (SYR) 1 0 1 2 29 Myanmar (MYA) 0 5 3 8 30 United Arab Emirates (UAE) 0 4 1 5 31 Lebanon (LIB) 0 1 2 3 31 Iraq (IRQ) 0 1 2 3 32 Afghanistan (AFG) 0 1 1 2 33 Laos (LAO) 0 0 2 2 34 Nepal (NEP) 0 0 1 1 34 Oman (OMA) 0 0 1 1

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Asian Games wrestling: Khatri wins bronze

Guangzhou: Mausam Khatri on Thursday gave the Indian wrestling contingent its third medal at the ongoing Asian Games after bagging a bronze in the men's 96kg freestyle competition here. Khatri got the better of Jaegang Kim of South Korea 3-1 to grab the third position in a contest that just over 17 minutes. Earlier in the day, Khatri, despite suffering a 1-3 defeat at the hands of Kazakhstan's Taimuraz Tigiyev got a chance to take the bronze home after overcoming Syria's Alkarrad Raja in the repechage bout, at the Huagong Gymnasium. The Indian wrestlers had clinched a couple of bronze medals earlier in the event.

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Asian Games wrestling: Khatri wins bronze

Guangzhou: Mausam Khatri on Thursday gave the Indian wrestling contingent its third medal at the ongoing Asian Games after bagging a bronze in the men's 96kg freestyle competition here. Khatri got the better of Jaegang Kim of South Korea 3-1 to grab the third position in a contest that just over 17 minutes. Earlier in the day, Khatri, despite suffering a 1-3 defeat at the hands of Kazakhstan's Taimuraz Tigiyev got a chance to take the bronze home after overcoming Syria's Alkarrad Raja in the repechage bout, at the Huagong Gymnasium. The Indian wrestlers had clinched a couple of bronze medals earlier in the event.

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Asian Games: Gold For Preeja, Silver For Kavita In Womens 10,000m

Indian campaign in the Asia Games track and fiel competition started in style wit Preeja Sreedharan and Kavit Raut winning the gold and silve in the women's 10,000 metre here Sunday. Preeja clocked a personal be timing of 31:50.47 seconds to wi the first gold medal for India th on the opening day of th athletics competition. The gol was also the day's second fo India and the fourth overall. Kavita also registered he personal best timing of 31:51.4 seconds while Shitay Habtegebr finished third in 31:53.2 seconds.

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Asian Games: India beat Iran to win record 6th kabaddi gold

NEW DELHI: Indian men's kabaddi team continued their golden run by winning record sixth Asiad kabaddi gold after beating Iran 37-20 in the finals on Friday. With the addition of this gold medal, India have so far won 12 golds, 15 silvers and 32 bronze medals at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. The indomitable Indian kabaddi team dished out a brilliant performance right from the start as they outwitted their opponents to take a convincing lead of 24-3 at the lemon-break. However, the Iranians bounced back strongly in the latter half and fetched some crucial points to reduce the margin. In the semifinals on Thursday, Indian men registered a convincing win over Japan. India did not let Japan score much in the game with the final score read as 52-17. Earlier in the day, the Indian women fashioned a comprehensive 28-14 victory over Thailand to clinch the inaugural women's kabaddi gold of the Asian Games. The Indian women led 17-7 at half-time after Thailand failed to secure a single lona against India's two. The Indian women team also got a couple of bonus points in the opening half. The second half followed a similar script and India once again dominated by securing a couple of lonas and getting 20 outs to emerge triumphant.

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