The Sri Lanka Federation For Disabled Sports is looking forward for sponsors to bear the cost of participating in the Para Asian Games, to be started in Guangzhou on December 12. Sri Lanka intends to send a 79 member contingent to the games. Sri Lankan athletes will take part in Athletics, Archery, Riffle Shooting, Badminton, [...]

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Sri Lankan cricket selectors, no matter who gets in there, have done it again. They picked a band of ageing horses like they always did, this time for the Asian Games that concluded in China yesterday. The result, not even a bronze medal won. Cricket followers may have been too pre-occupied with the current home [...]

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Bangladesh dashed Afghanistan's hopes of a fairytale finish in the men's cricket final at the Asian Games on Friday to win their first gold at the multi-sport event. After an edgy start, the Afghans compiled a respectable 118, helped by an enterprising 38 by Asghar Stanikzai, who stroked three boundaries in the final over. With [...]

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Pakistan claimed the bronze medal of the T20 cricket tournament of the 16th Asian Games as they beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the third place play off match played at Guanggong International Cricket Stadium today. Sri Lanka batted first and all out for 135 in 19.5 overs. Pakistan (141/4) reached home with 12 [...]

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Bangladeshbeat Sri Lankaby seven wickets in the first semi final of the Asian Games T-20 cricket tournament, played in Guangzhoutoday. Sri Lankascored 101 for seven wickets in 20 overs. Bangladeshscored 104 for three wickets in 15.2 overs.

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Mighty Sri Lanka, the world’s third-best Test team, looked distinctly second-rate on Wednesday when minnows Nepal came agonizingly close to pulling off a stunning Asian Games upset. Despite boasting 11 players in their squad who have played international one-day cricket, Sri Lanka only squeezed past Nepal’s amateurs by two wickets to set-up a semi-final clash [...]

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Superstar hurdler Liu Xiang won redemption yesterday in front of home fans for his Beijing Olympic disaster by claiming Asian Games gold on a day tarnished by a second positive doping test. On day 12 of the showpiece multi-sports event, dominant table-toppers China made the Guangzhou Games its most successful ever in terms of total [...]

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Malaysia has a chance to write its name in the Asian Games history books when the karate competition begins on Wednesday, as Japan defends its pride as the sport’s homeland. If Puvaneswaran Ramasamy wins a medal in the 55kg “kumite (sparring)”, he will become the first fighter to climb the podium at five straight Asian [...]

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China’s men’s pair Yang Liguang and Zhou Luxin won the men’s 10 metre synchronised diving title at the Asian Games Monday, giving the host nation its second gold medal of the day in the sport. The Malaysian pair of Bryan Lomas and Ooi Tze Liang (MAS) took the silver with the score of 407.16, while [...]

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Kuwaiti shooters won their country’s first gold medals at the ongoing Asian Games on Friday even as hosts China admitted their firm grip on the ranges had loosened.Kuwait, whose only previous medal at Guangzhou was a silver in bowling, won both the team and individual titles in the men’s trap as the action shifted outdoors [...]

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Taiwan shrugged off the absence of injured Wimbledon quarter-finalist Lu Yen-hsun to win their first Asian Games men’s tennis team gold on Tuesday with a 2-1 victory over Uzbekistan. Chen Ti gave Taiwan a flying start in the final with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Murad Inoyatov before world number 40 Denis Istomin pulled Uzbekistan [...]

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Hosts China made clear who was boss on the opening day of the Asian Games Saturday by claiming 16 gold medals, including its 1,000th since first competing in 1974. The sporting extravaganza, the most ambitious Asiad so far with some 10,000 athletes from 45 countries and territories vying for gold in 42 sports, kicked into [...]

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Asian cricket chiefs on Friday launched a last-ditch campaign to save their sport from being axed at the 2014 Asiad in South Korea. Cricket is making its Asian Games debut in Guangzhou on Saturday, but the game’s image took a battering when global powerhouse India refused to send a team. Incheon, the 2014 hosts, are [...]

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India’s Olympic chiefs on Friday stepped up pressure on their reluctant government to accept a proposal to bid for the Asian Games in 2019. The sports ministry earlier this month turned down the bidding request from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) following the chaotic and controversial build-up to October’s Commonwealth Games in New Delh. As [...]

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China has promised a traditional, water-themed opening ceremony for the Asian Games in the southern city of Guangzhou to kick start the country’s biggest sports event since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Organisers, however, are keeping the identity of the final torch bearer a closely guarded secret, along with the method of lighting the Asian Games [...]

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The Asian Games have come a long way since the concept was formalised in New Delhi in 1949. When they open in Guangzhou on Friday, more than 10,000 athletes from 45 countries will be involved, competing in a record 42 sports. It will be the biggest Asiad ever with a television audience of billions. In [...]

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With only a few days remaining for the opening of the second Asian Beach Games Muscat 2010, Oman Air has partnered with the Muscat Asian Beach Games Organising Committee (MABGOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to bring sporting delegations to the Sultanate of Oman and promote the Games through its extensive network. As [...]

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Diving powerhouse China is aiming for a clean-sweep at the Guangzhou Asian Games after bagging all 10 gold medals during the 2006 Asiad and dominating the podium at the Beijing Olympics.Amid their gold rush in Doha four years ago, the host nation also took six silver, giving them 16 medals overall, to leave their rivals [...]

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Sri Lanka will send a 104 member contingent to the 16th Asian Games, starting in Guangzhou, China on 12th November. The Sri Lanka team, captained by golfer Mithun Perera, will leave for China on 11th. The biggest multi spots games festival in Asia will feature 42 sports, participated by 44 nations.

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