By Duncan Mackay and Nick Butler in Incheon
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BREAKING: Identity of first positive doping test of Asian Games confirmed. Tajikistan footballer Khurshed Beknazarov fails for Methylhexaneamine (See 10:55-11:10). Read our full article here.
Malaysian and Cambodian reportedly failing doping test (see 18:32) and Qatar forfeit women's basketball match after banned from wearing headgear (see 17:18-17:40).
Good night!
23:00 Join us again tomorrow bright and early at 09:00 for the best of all the action. But for now it is good night, or good afternoon or even good morning depending on where you are in the world.
23:57 Tomorrow we have another 38 gold medals to be won, including the men and women's individual triathlon races, as well as the final day of track cycling and a shooting extravaganza in which 10 gold medals will be won. It is also the final day in rowing, artistic gymnastics and weightlifting, and the penultimate day in swimming.
23:52 So good to see a first gold medal for Singapore today in the pool, while a good day for Kazakhstan with a couple of victories, while North Korea and Iran and Mongolia all managed a further one. Things not so rosy however, for India, who are still languishing below Kuwait, the only Arab nation to have won a gold here in Incheon so far.
Plenty ongoing away from the medals today - as well as Sheikh Ahmad playing baseball - with confirmation of the first failed doping test of the Games, and suspicions raised about a further two (see above). We also had that intriguing story about the Qatari basketball team, an issue you can expect to continue to generate headlines for a good while yet.
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Sheikh Ahmad a baseball natural?
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22:36 So the end of another day here at the Asian Games, a little bit earlier than last night when the badminton final kept us entertained until almost midnight. But it has been another exciting day today on day five, with gymnastics apparatus action, team tennis medal matches, wushu sparring and rowing finals all adding extra excitement. China have still had the best of the day, with five wins in wushu and four each in swimming and rowing, although South Korea and Japan have had their usual medals glut.
China scoop two more gymnastics titles to end day five on a golden note
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22:12 There's some nerves on the uneven bars, as Kang Yongmi of North Korea holds the lead with 13.633, but both Chinese and the South Korean entry are left.
"Age is just a number"
22:01 Oksana Chusovitina may have been competing before most of her rivals were born, but she has no plans to quit, well, perhaps ever...
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- Oksana Chusovitina after finishing runner-up for Uzbekistan on the vault at the age of 39.
21:53 A fencing action-shot to bring from earlier, as we turn our gaze back to gymnastics for the final two medals to be won tonight.
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Gold medals shared around in gymnastics as tennis concludes
21:45 So, with just the gymnastics to come, there is time for a brief round-up of what is happening elsewhere in the team events tonight, although the pick of the bunch as far as we're concerned was that brilliant handball victory for Oman a little earlier (see 21:00).
A big win for China this evening, 2-1 over India in women's hockey while South Korea got the better of Japan in other second stage action. More comfortable wins for South Korea in men's basketball over Mongolia and over Taiwan in men's volleyball, while Japan have also beaten Kuwait in basketball, while Taiwan got the better of Kazakhstan in women's volleyball.
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21:28 Or rather, we won't. The signal is so bad at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts that the television flickers out after every 10 seconds or so. We will go back to the tennis in a moment, but the final medal events of the evening, the men's rings and women's uneven bars in gymnastics, have begun.
21:24 Over at the tennis and Mikhail Kukushkin is leading Zheng Ye 5-2 in the deciding set and is serving for the gold medal! And he is at advantage...So after a lot of success in so many other sports, another tennis team title is about to slip from China's grasp...
But Zheng Ye somehow has fought back to break and win the game! Brilliant stuff. I have persuaded my South Korean colleague to give on baseball for five minutes and we will see this one out...
Sun Yang leads China to yet another gold medal in the pool
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The Chinese foursome of Yu Hexin, Lin Yongqing, Sun Yang and Ning Zetao were in second place during the first half of the race, but as soon as Sun dived into the water China quickly took the lead and finished first place while breaking the Asian record in the process. For Japan, Shinri Shioura, Rammaru Harada, Takuro Fujii and Katsumi Nakamura challenged by trailing close in the race, but failed to get ahead.
Meanwhile, South Korea's Kim Sung-kyum, Yang June-hyuck and Nam Ki-woong and a certain Park Tae-hwan were initially behind Hong Kong, racing in fourth position, but Nam's sprint put the team to third with just 100m left for Park. Yet there was too much of a margin for Park to chase down Japan and the host nation had to settle for bronze. However, the South Koreans put on a spectacular fight for the home crowd as they achieved a new national
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A good evening for Uzbekistan continues as Abdulla Azimov takes silver, while Park Min-soo takes bronze for South Korea.
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21:05 So much going on around Incheon this evening. Even without any judo action it is definitely are busiest evening yet. Though it is lacking something...I think it's badminton...
Swimming and gymnastics medals rush, with fencing, weightlifting and tennis
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20:56 A quick tennis update before we turn our attention back to gymnastics. Mikhail Kukushkin romped through the first set 6-0 against Zhang Ze and seemed to have put Kazakhstan on the cusp of team gold. But then, somehow, Zhang took the second set 6-3. Kukushkin need to regroup and it looks like he may have done, going up an early break to lead 2-0 in the third.
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This amended for their final defeat to China in this event four years ago in Guangzhou. Incidentally, in taking gold tonight, South Korea earned a fifth consecutive Asian Games team foil title. That is quite some effort.
20:40 A glut of other recently won gold medals to bring you up to date with now...
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Because only those six teams were participating here, it was decided to hold in a round-robin format only. Not having a final does lose something, but a good win nonetheless for China.
20:33 One event we've been a little behind on is the women's water polo. It's a round-robin format, with no knock-out matches. In the final three matches today, Uzbekistan thrashed Hong Kong 18-1, China saw off Kazakhstan 11-6 and Japan annihilated Singapore, 23-1 in the final match this evening.
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Why not to have a roof on a tennis court...
20:23 A quick photo break, an amazing one in fact of the sky during the tennis earlier as Taiwan battled to gold over China. That is why we got those typhoon warnings yesterday.
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Two bronze medals, remember, and these go to Hong Kong and Japan.
20:12 The vault final in gymnastics is underway. I hope this doesn't come across badly, but with two athletes from Uzbekistan, North Korea and Vietnam, plus one each from Hong Kong and India, it is refreshing to see an event with no medal contender from either China, Japan or South Korea, the three dominant nations at the Asian Games. Dipa Karmakar of India scores 14.683 up first, with each gymnast having two vaults each, while the men's pommel horse event is also about to begin.
20:06 Jiao finished outside the Asian Games record of 2:05.79 that she herself swam when winning four years ago in Guangzhou. Compatriot Liu Zige holds the world record, a remarkable 2:01.81 from back in 2009.
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A 39 year-old gymnast going for gold?
19:57 Up next is the vault final, and it is Hong Un-jong of North Korea, the Beijing Olympics vault gold medalist, against Chusovita Oksana, who is often dubbed a legend in women's gymnastics, will meet in the vault final at the Namdong Gymnasium.
Chusovitina, 39, has competed at her first World Championships in 1991 and must be one of the only athletes in the history of sport to have competed for four different teams: namely the Soviet Union, the Unified Team, Germany and currently Uzbekistan. And this in a sport where athletes peak young!
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She is only competing on the vault here due to an injury concern.."I had a foot injury a few days ago during the podium training, and today when I was warming up, I felt my foot was still not ready for all-round," she told Xinhua. "So I decided just to do vault today. I hope my foot will recover and compete in all-round at the World Championships."
Chusovitina has won 11 World Championship medals and two Olympic medals, but all of the hardware since 1992 has come on vault. She hasn't competed on all four events and qualified for a global championship all-around final since the 2008 Olympics, when she finished ninth for Germany. Chusovitina finished fifth in the World Championships vault final last year after switching country back to Uzbekistan after London 2012.
Hong Un-jong topped the preliminary rounds as she won a total score of 15.350 in the competition. Chusovitina recorded 14.675, where she appeared to be limping
Evening action hotting up at Nanjing 2014 with swimming and gymnastics medals rush
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19:46 We're still not quite sure what is going on in the tennis. The second match, between Mikhail Kukushkin and Zhang Ze, does appear to have begun, but they've only played a couple of games according to our information, which is strange considering the last match finished a while ago.
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They do take silver courtesy of Yasuhiro Koseki, while Li Xiang takes bronze for China.
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19:35 In gymnastics, the reigning Olympic champion Zou Kai is the favourite in the opening event of the evening, on the floor. And he scored 15.533 to take the lead! Team mate Huang Yuguo scores 15.300 for second place. Only Yuya Kamoto of Japan is left, the all around champion from last night...
Pressure on for South Korean baseball team
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Baseball is the biggest sport in South Korea, ahead of football, I am told. This is their equivalent moment to the Russian ice hockey team at Sochi 2014, and win gold in baseball, and the Games are a success. It's funny listening to the commentary - as a backstop just has a ball smashed into his grill - in Korean but with the occasionally familiar word, like "home-run" permeating their prose.
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Schooling, a seven time champion at various South East Asian Games, won a silver medal in this event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow earlier this summer.
19:12 The first of five gymnastics apparatus finals has begun. It's the men's floor competition up first, but the first of seven swimming finals this evening has already got underway...
19:07 The second match in the men's competition has not begun, so it's possible action has ended for the night, with darkness having set in. Quite hard to get information from the Yeorumul Tennis Courts but we will confirm what is happening as soon as we hear.
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A superb performance by the Taiwanese. Rather like South Korea last night in the badminton, they got off to a great start, then rallied again when the pressure was inflicted.
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18:53 There will be medals won left, right and centre from 19:00 with swimming and gymnastics apparatus finals. But a few other things to get up to date before then..
Japan take cycling gold
18:46 There's more Taiwanese success to bring you away from the medals as well. After three of the six events that make up the omnium, Hsiao Mei Yu of Taiwan is the joint leader with Yuo Xiaoling of China, with each tied on 114 points. That will be one of three gold medals contested on the final day of action tomorrow, along with the men's keirin and women's sprint.
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Cambodian soft tennis player and Malaysian wushu player reportedly fail drugs tests
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The Cambodian is a female soft tennis player and the Malaysian is a male wushu athlete, according to the source. This follows the positive test, involving Tajikistani footballer Khurshed Beknazarov, was confirmed this morning.
Evening sporting action on day five: tennis, cycling track and bowling
18:25 There's a lot of excitement in the press room meanwhile, as a stirring rendition of the South Korean National Anthem is played ahead of the all-important baseball clash with Taiwan.
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18:04 And it's been quite an afternoon for Taiwan, because Chou Chia Chen appears to be heading for victory in the women's singles bowling. She competed earlier on in Group A, scoring 1291 points, as has been sitting their nervously for hours. But no one has overhauled her, and we are now in the closing stages...
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17:50 Right. I'm sure we will come back to this, but there's so much else going on here in Incheon, we are going to focus back on the sport that is happening for the time being.
Qatar forfeit basketball match as not allowed to wear hijab
17:40 More on the International Basketball Federation stance on headgear...
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- Relaxing the current rules regarding headgear in order to enable national federations to request, as of now, exceptions to be applied at the national level within their territory without incurring any sanctions for violation of FIBA's Official Basketball Rules. National Federations wishing to apply for such an exception to the uniform regulations shall submit a detailed request to FIBA. Once approved, they shall submit follow-up reports twice a year to monitor the use of such exceptions.
- The players will be allowed to play in FIBA endorsed 3x3 competitions - both nationally and internationally - wearing headgear without restrictions, unless the latter presents a direct threat to their safety or that of other players on the court. Players wishing to take part in such competitions with headgear must ensure that a detailed request for approval is addressed to FIBA.
- FIBA will communicate with National Federations over the coming weeks on the subject of these request procedures.
The two years will serve as a test period. FIBA, through its competent bodies, will monitor these requests and their implementation from both the technical and sport development perspectives (for example in terms of manufacturing specificities, safety of athletes, look on the field of play and positive development of participation numbers in basketball within the demanding countries).
A first report will be provided to the Central Board in 2015, which will then determine whether tests at the lowest official international level shall be allowed as of next summer. A full review will be done in 2016 to take a decision on whether permanent change."
- A statement sent out following the FIBA Central Board meeting on September 13, explaining the wearing of headgear. Unless I am mistaken, this only refers to international events in 3x3 basketball. I feel the "direct risk to their safety" line, may be the key in this case...judging by the comment from the player below.
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17:34 This is a very topical issue in sport at the moment. In April, football governing body FIFA lifted a ban after a longstanding campaign led by Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan. That campaign stretched back to 2010 after the Iranian women's football team were banned from wearing the hijab at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. Read more here.
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All Japanese sprint cycling final
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Qatar women's basketball team forfeit match due to hijab ban
17:18 Some interesting news just coming through. It appears Qatar have forfeited their opening women's clash in Group A of the basketball, against Mongolia, due to a ban on team members wearing a hijab, the Islamic veil covering the body from the head to the chest, at the Hwaseong Sports Complex. We will bring you more information on this as soon we have it.
There is nothing mentioned about this on the Twitter feeds of either the Qatar Olympic Committee or the Qatar Basketball Federation, even though they have been updating throughout the day, but the Incheon 2014 information system lists the match as a 20-0 automatic victory to Mongolia.
Thrilling home gold ends wushu programme on day five
17:10 Those "sanda" sparring events, were very different to the "taolu" exhibition ones seen earlier in the Games. Have a look at this article by my colleague Paul Osborne for an update on wushu's Olympic ambitions (Wushu has a bright future in the Olympic Movement, claims world governing body). The International Wushu Federation will be ultimately hoping to add both elements to the programme.
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No medallists of any colour for China in this event, as Kazakhstan's Nursultan Tursynkulov and Vietname's Ngo van Sy take the two bronze medals. Five out of seven for China in wushu.
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Bangladesh join Sri Lanka, Pakistan...and China in the cricket semis
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Chinese fight back in tennis as, with one exception, wushi wonder-streak continues
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The men's team final between China and Kazakhstan, which was scheduled to begin a little earlier this afternoon, has been delayed due to time constraints. We will bring you more information soon.
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Saudi National Day celebrations attended by Sheikh Ahmad
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16:15 One other event which happened in Incheon last night to update you on, it was National Day of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 84 years after independence. As well as across the country, celebrations were held here in Incheon as Prince Nawaf M. A. Al Saud, head of the Saudi Arabian Athletics Federation, welcomed the VIP guests and the members of the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee delegation at the 17th Asian Games and thanked them for sharing in the National Day celebrations.
OCA President Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad Al Sabah, from neighbouring Kuwait, was also present, saying that it was an honour to attend such a special occasion and to see the development of the Kingdom, "especially in the field we love - sport".
"We congratulate His Majesty and the people of Saudi Arabia," he added. The dinner banquet celebration was attended by directors and staff of the OCA as well as various National Olympic Committee officials and other members of the Olympic movement.
16:08 A couple of photos of gold medal winners from earlier in the day to give you a quick wushu-break on day five. A good atmosphere is being generated now over at the tennis, where we are on serve in the third set...
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A woosh of wushu medals...
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Bronze medals, secured yesterday by virtue of semi-final losses, went Sanathoi Devi Yumnam of India and Kim Hye-bin of South Korea.
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A workshop to develop Asian sport
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Hosted by the Korean Olympians Association during the Asian Games, the workshop discussed how the bodies can support their Olympian members, sharing practices and working together to expand WOA membership and increase NOA activities throughout the region.
A platform for debate on how NOAs can activate Olympians and encourage them to run Olympism in Action projects in the communities they live in will also be created, it is hoped. Read more in our article here.
Bowling at the Asian Games...
15:37 The bowling competition is split into two sections at the Anyang Hogye Gymnasium, with half the field competing in each. The second group have just begun, but after the first group earlier, Chou Chia Chen of Taiwan leads with 1291 points, ahead of New Hui Fen of Singapore.
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Bowling events have been contested at every Asian Games since Bangkok 1978, with the exception of New Delhi 1982 and Beijing 1990. Bowling is played in single games, with game results determined by the scores earned with the number of pins knocked down. Each game consists of 10 frames, with players rolling the ball twice in every frame, except for when they knock every pin down with the first shot (i.e. a strike) A perfect score is 300 points in a game.
In Guangzhou 2010, Hwang Sun-ok won this event for South Korea. She is not here but the runner-up four years ago, Shayna Ng of Singapore is.
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Beer day and professional cheerleaders...
15:25 Incheon 2014 certainly know how to get the media on side. We have just received a notice for "Welcome to beer day", with a complimentary variety of snacks and beverages. This may be a defense mechanism to offload the criticism of the late-night buses back to the Media Village that has been simmering over the last couple of days...
Meanwhile they have also been speaking about ticket sales.
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Another shooting title for South Korea
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Indian problems symbolised by shock squash loss?
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15:05 Returning to India, and pistol shooter Jitu Rai won the country's only gold of the Games way back on day one. They took their first silver yesterday, courtesy of Saurav Ghosal in the men's squash, but only after he was beaten from 2-0 up by unheralded Kuwaiti Abdullah Almezayen in the final.
To be fair, most of the biggest Indian medal hopes, in sports like kabaddi, wrestling, boxing, archery, hockey, badminton and athletics are yet to compete. Their shooters however have, Rai aside, been disappointing, swept aside by the brilliance of China and South Korea.
Taiwan heading for tennis gold?
14:58 Remember that tennis in China is still rocking from the news a few days ago that Li Na, who remains the world number six for the time being and won the Australian Open title at the beginning of the year, is retiring from the sport due to chronic knee injury. Read our article here.
China could do with her at her rampaging best now. Plenty of big ground-strokes but Hsieu is right on her game here. A superb opening set performance.
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Asian Games, or cleavage, a white tiger and a mission to Mars?
14:45 While China, and to a slightly lesser extent South Korea and Japan, are winning medal after medal here in Incheon, there are quite a few other countries who haven't won too many so far and may be slightly disappointed. To name a few: Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran and India, who, despite 10 bronze medals, only have one gold and one silver.
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The three "bigger" stories he refers to in the backlash to a controversial photo and tweet published by The Times of India about Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone's cleavage, a white tiger that mauled to death a man who fell into the animal's enclosure at a New Delhi zoo, and the fact an unmanned Indian spacecraft has entered the orbit of Mars. They become the first Asian nation to do so, and the first nation in the world to successfully reach Mars on its first attempt. Some big stories there, to be fair, a blend of scandal, tragedy and innovation...
14:36 It's been a slightly quite period in terms of medals for the last couple of hours, but action is getting going in bowling, where it is the women's singles competition today, and in the men's 25m rapid fire pistol shooting final, where we have another South Korea v China duel to be entertained by.
Tissot watches being awarded to latest record breaking weightlifter
14:29 In weightlifting today, we have the women's under 69kg division at 16:00 before the men's under 85kg event at 19:00.
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14:24 There will be another world record honouring ceremony later, it has been announced. Tissot, the Official Timekeeper of the 17th Asian Games, will present the Tissot World Record Award to Taiwan's Tzu Chi Lin, after she broke two world records yesterday in the under 63kg category. She will also be awarded a limited edition Asian Games watch.
Will any world records be broken in a sport other than weightlifting, I wonder?
Taiwan take the first match in team tennis final
14:15 Next up we have the battle of the number one players. For China, it is Zheng Jie, a two-time Grand Slam doubles champion back in 2006 who reached a career high singles ranking of 15 in 2009, and is currently ranked 80. She is up against another two-time Grand Slam doubles champion, Hsieu Su Wei, who is currently ranked 144th, but was world number 23 in 2013.
14:05 Over in the tennis, however, and Taiwan are one match to the good in the women's team final. In a 2 hour and 13 min epic, the second set, like the first, goes to a tiebreak but is once again won by the Taiwanese player, Chan Yung Jan, who takes the match 7-6 (10-8), 7-6 (7-4) over Duan Yingying
13:56 A quick whiz through the channels to see what is happening around the grounds here in Incheon. There is baseball, sepak takraw, badminton, volleyball and hockey action going on at the moment.
A mystery bronze medal for Pakistan
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At the Olympics, when boxers lose semi-finals, they are not awarded their bronze medal until after the final in their category has finished. A different system is being adopted here. There are seven "sanda", i.e. sparring, finals in wushu today, getting underway at 15:00.
13:41 Some more reaction to the Pakistani cricket victory earlier. And another verdict on the pitch...
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- Pakistan cricket captain Sana Mir reflects on the pitch and the opposition after the quarter-final win over Thailand
A reigning Olympic and world champion...but on the verge of being dropped?
13:34 China's greatest threat will come from Japan, South Korea and, especially on the women's side, Singapore.
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13:28 Speaking of table tennis, and some fascinating words from China's longstanding head coach Liu Guoliang about the country's star player, or one of their star players, Zhang Jike.
"I gave him some reminders and even warnings about his position," Liu said. "In the nearly two-year period to Rio, the competition will be fierce. He really can't make have a mistake.
"Some of his performances on court have been listless. He has appeared like he doesn't care and has actually given me the feeling his heart's not in it. I felt that was obvious at the World Championships in Japan."
"In the Asian Games team component, he can't make any mistake," he said. "With every loss there's danger. By the time he feels that danger, it might be too late for him."
But I suppose, when the team boast the world's top five ranked players, with Zhang Jike at three behind Ma Long and Xu Xin, but ahead of Wang Hao and Youth Olympic champion, Fan Zhendong, every loss will potentially cost you your place in the team. Liu obviously doesn't believe in making his players feel comfortable heading into a major event, although I feel his words are a calculated gamble to fire-up a player who thrives off pressure.
13:19 It's great to see athletes able to raise their game against the Chinese. We say it last night in the badminton and it is happening now in the tennis. All we need now is for someone to get the better of China in table tennis, when that sport begins on Saturday (September 27).
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