Asiad Faces
China's former Olympic and world champion Liu Xiang finished first in heat one to reach the men's 110 meters hurdles final at the Asian Games here on Monday.
Forty-year-old Kimiko Date Krumm, who returned to professional tennis in 2008 after a 12-year layoff from the sport and returned to the top 50 this season, said next season is likely to be her last.
China's Wang Hao reaffirmed his status as the world's best race walker by easily winning the men's 20km event in front of thousands of spectators on the road outside Aoti Main Stadium on Sunday.
After struggling through a year which saw her WTA Tour ranking fall to a six-year low of 95, China's Peng Shuai came into the Asian Games as a dark horse for the crown.
Having pulled off a shock victory in the women's 10,000 meters at the Guangzhou Asiad on Sunday, India's Preeja Sreedharan now wants to surprise her family by improving their lifestyle at home.
First he ripped off his shirt. Then he made a military salute to the audience. Then he took off his shoes and threw them into the crowd at the packed Tianhe Stadium.
Although he won a relay gold medal and two bronze at the Asian Games, China's world champion swimmer Zhang Lin under-performed in the Guangzhou pool.
Witnessing Park storm to three gold medals in individual freestyle events at the Guangzhou Asian Games while Zhang could only manage a bronze, officially ended the dispute over who is Asia's "freestyle king".
The fainting of a hostess during a medal ceremony on Thursday has aroused the public's attention. The young woman, named He Junwei, is a student from the Southern Medical University. She fainted while holding a tray of 12 silver medals to be bestowed upon the second-place finishers in the women's 1,000m dragon boat race.
The women's +75kg weightlifting final boiled down to body weight on Friday as Jang Mi-ran of the Republic of Korea (ROK) squeezed past China's Meng Suping by virtue of weighing 1 kg less than Meng after the two rivals were deadlocked.
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