By Nick Butler and Paul Osborne in Incheon
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BREAKING: Japanese swimmer Naoya Tomita sent home for stealing camera (see 11:07)
22:30 Sport is now officially over for the day here in Incheon which means, i'm afraid, that it is about time to wrap up our live blog for the evening.
There have been some shocks today on what has proved yet another busy day of sport, as we welcomed a host of new sports to the Games programme. The biggest shock of the day was perhaps Japan's early exit from the baseball following a defeat at the hands of Taiwan.
The Japanese are fighting tooth and nail to have the sport introduced at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, but they will surely be hoping for a better performance if that were to be the case in six years time.
The athletics has, as ever, started with a bang here, but could not have ended worse for Ruth Jebet of Bahrain after she was disqualified following her gold medal in the 3,000m steeplechase. The Kenyan-born runner was a huge distance clear of the field when she made the stumble, making the disqualification all the worse, I feel.
Join us again tomorrow at the usual 09:00 for another dose of Asian Games excitement, entertainment, tears and cheers as we cross the halfway mark and begin the final descent in this sporting bonanza.
To keep track of all the medals, be sure to check out our fully up-to-date medal table.
Until tomorrow, however, it is goodnight from us.
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22:13 Action is wrapping up across all venues now as our day draws to a close. Eight athletes have just qualified to the final of the men's 400m final on the final athletics event of the evening with Bahrain's Abbas Abubakar Abbas the fastest qualifier, followed by Japan's Yuzo Kanemaru, Saudi Arabia's Yousef Masrahi, Japan's Nobuya Kato, South Korea's Park Bong-go, India's Kunhu Puthanpurakkal and Arokiarajiv, and South Korea's Seong Hyeok-je.
Ruth Jebet disqualified after winning gold in women's 3,000m steeplechase
22:01 Big news from the women's 3,000m steeplechase with the announcement that gold medalist Ruth Jebet of Bahrain has been disqualified for stepping out of bounds.
We mentioned it in conversation earlier when we saw the 17-year-old stumble around the bend, forcing her to stick a left foot over the rails and out of bounds. A tad harsh I think, however, as my colleague rightly points out "rules are rules" and Jebet has paid the ultimate price here.
As a result, China's Li Zhenzhu, India's Lalita Babar and Sudha Singh (oringally fourth) will be gold, silver and bronze medalists, respectively.
21:56 Interestingly, China have finished fourth in all five years baseball has been played at the Asian Games. They will be hoping to buck that trend in tomorrow's playoff final and finally put an end to the three-way dominance of baseball at the Asian Games which has seen no nation other than the "Big Three" - South Korea, Japan and Taiwan - medal in this event.
21:52 It's all over at the Munhak Baseball Stadium where South Korea have booked their spot in the final of the baseball competition.
This contest was decided in the fifth and sixth innings where South Korea powered to two then three runs, without reply by the Chinese team.
The result ensures a rematch of the final from the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou which saw the Korean team run out 9-3 victors. That win was a third for the South Koreans and denied back-to-back titles for Taiwan.
Tomorrow's final should be a good one then, with these two Asian baseball powerhouses facing off for a third time in the final. South Korea have won on each occasion, however.
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The runner representing Bahrain clocks a Games record time of 9:31.36 to seal the gold. The time is some ways off the Asian continental record she set earlier this year in Zurich, howeve,r it is enough to fend of the challenges of China's Li Zhenzhu and India's Lalita Shivaji Babar who take silver and bronze with times of 9:35.23 and 9:35.37 respectively.
Jebet's time at the Diamond League meet in Zurich earlier this year of 9:20.55 was just 0.13 seconds outside the world junior record set by Ethiopia's Birtukan Adamu in 2011. At just 17-year-old, the runner looks to have a bright future ahead of her.
21:42 Meanwhile in the baseball, China look to be on the receiving end of a romping with no scores in the seventh and eighth innings leaving the score at 7-2 in favour of South Korea in their semi-final encounter.
The Olympic champions now need to restrict China to less than five runs in the ninth innings to ensure their passage into the final where they will meet Taiwan, following their shock victory over Japan earlier.
21:38 A Moroccan, an Ethiopian, and now by the looks of it, a Kenyan have taken gold on the track this evening as Ruth Jebet surges clear in the women's 3000m steeplechase.
The 17-year-old is miles ahead (not literally) of the field as she looks on course to seal the final athletics gold of the evening.
21:33 South Korea are closing in on the baseball final, they still lead the semi-final over China, but the final event on the track has begun, it's the women's 3,000m steeplechase. We've had a couple of African born Gulf runners triumphing already tonight. Will we have another?
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21:20 The final event on the track, in a few moments time, will be the women's 3,000m steeplechase, but before then, we have the final wrestling event of the day to bring you up to date with.
Qatari wins gold in men's 5,000m
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21:13 Around 100m to go in the 5,000m and Mohamad Al Garni of Qatar has broken clear!
21:08 A big moment in the baseball, meanwhile, as South Korea score twice in the fifth innings and three times in the sixth. They are 7-2 ahead over China and are on the cusp of making the final.
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20:58 A picture from the women's doubles badminton earlier, but we are keeping our attention on the track, where the athletes are out and on the startline for the men's 5,000m. The leading entry here is Bahrain's Alemu Bekele Gebre, eighth at the World Championships last year, but someone who has since posted an impressive record of 13:18:00m.
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20:51 Back in the athletics and we've had the women's 400m heats and are now seeing the 10,000m medals ceremony as the United Arab Emirates National Anthem is played. The men's 5,000m is the next event on the track, but the women's shot put is also ongoing. China's Gong Lijiao, who originally finished fourth in the Olympics before being upgraded to bronze after the disqualification of Belarus's Nadezhda Ostapchuk.
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Wrestling and athletics medals action
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She beats Sun Yanan of China in the final, while the two bronze medals went to Tatyana Amanzhol of Kazakhstan and Vinesh of India.
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20:22 Speaking of table tennis, we have had our fair share of empty seats today at the Suwon Gymnasium, a surprise considering how popular the sport is here. Still, early stages I guess... A lot of one sided clashes in the team competitions today, but a good one just now in the women's event as 2010 world champions Singapore overcome Taiwan in a 3-1 thriller.
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Women's doubles badminton gold for Indonesia
20:16 We were only saying earlier how surprising the lack of badminton success from Indonesians has been so far in the competition. They've made up for it there. I don't think there is any other Olympic sport in which the quality here is quite as high as the badminton competition. Table tennis perhaps, which is still to really get going...
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After taking the first set 21-15, Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari were even more dominant in the second, recording a 21-9 win to secure the gold medal. The two bronze medals in the event were won by Malaysia and China.
First athletics gold goes to Ethiopian-born Emirati
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- Alia Mohammed Saeed Mohammed reflects on her gold medal in the women's 10,000m.
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Takafumi Kojima adds a bronze for Japan as he beats Haiwei Ling of China in the opening bronze medal final, while Kyrgyztan's Elaman Dogdurbek Uulu silencing that North Korean fans with victory against Myongsong Jang in the other.
19:54 The four heats in the men's 100m were won by two athletes from Japan and two from Qatar. Ryota Yamagata, Kei Takase for the former and Samuel Francis and Femi Seun Ogunode for the latter. Ogunode's time of 10.14 was the most impressive, but Francis is the intriguing entrant.
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Ogunode also originally competed for Nigeria, the country of his birth, before deciding to move to Qatar in 2009 and gaining citizenship to compete for the Arab nation.
The biggest name in the Qatar team, and perhaps in any athletics team here, will be high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim who, after leaping a mammoth 2.43 in Brussels last month, is aiming to break Cuban Javier Sotomayer's 21-year-old record, of 2.45, this week.
19:50 Indonesia have taken a commanding lead in the women's badminton doubles final as the pairing of Greysia Polii and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari secure a one set lead against Japan's Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo.
The Japanese are top seeds in the tournament but fell 15-21 in the opener to the seventh seeded Indonesians.
19:45 Not much in the baseball after three innings, South Korea lead, just, 2-1, after both teams score a run in the third. We have moved our television in the press centre off that match and onto the athletics now, but don't think we are that popular...
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The North Korean seals the victory on points, recording eight technical points to Rassul Kaliyev's six for a 3-1 classification win.
Bronze medals were won by South Korea's Junsik Yun with his win against Tajikistan's Nikolay Noev, and Mongolia's Nom in Batbold, who beat Fum itaka Morishita of Japan.
19:34 Back to the hammer final and one of the best known Asian track and field stars in recent years, Koji Murofushi, competed in this event. The Japanese won gold at Athens 2004 and bronze eight years later in London, in addition to one world and two Asian Games titles. He's not here tonight but earlier this year was appointed Sports Director for Tokyo 2020.
A name we will continue to hear a lot of, I imagine, over the next six years.
19:28 Staying with the wrestling for a minute, and it's nice to see the North Koreans out in force to support Hakjin Jong in his gold medal final. There has been a lot of empty seats at the majority of stadiums here at these Asian Games so Jong will appreciate the added support, I'm sure.
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19:24 The first wrestling finals are up and running at the Dowon Gymnasium. After a full day of action, the bronze and gold medal finallists will take to the mat for one last bout to determine who goes home with the medals here in Incheon.
The first gold medal final will be in the men's 57kg division where North Korea's Hakjin Jong up against Kazakhstan's Rassul Kaliyev. The two nation's are neck and neck for fourth in the overall medal table so this contest could prove decisive come the end of the Games.
Before that, however, we have the two bronze medal finals.
Day eight athletics action
19:20 The first gold medal in athletics will come in the men's hammer competition just getting underway, and the gold and silver medallists from Guangzhou 2010 are both here tonight.
Four years ago, Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov earned gold with a throw of 76.44m and is now looking to defend that medal.
He placed 10th at the 2012 London Olympics and his mark of 80.62m earlier this summer tops the Asian rankings once again.
The main challenge will come from Iranian Kaveh Mousavi, the Guangzhou runner-up who finished 22nd at London 2012, but after that failed doping test for a member of the Tajikistan football team earlier in the Games, a medal tonight would be a great moment.
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Sandhu Harinder Pal Singh got the ball rolling with a 3-1 victory over Iskandar Mohamad Azlan Bin before Saurav Ghosal edged an epic encounter with Ong Beng Hee 3-2 in a whopping 68 minutes to seal the Indian gold.
The Malaysian women made easier work of their gold medal final earlier, however, it'll make little difference to the Indian men's party this evening after this brilliant victory.
19:00 The most disappointing aspect, which only a cursory look around the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium will make abundantly clear, is the large number of empty seats. I would say the stadium is about 20 per cent full, although that might be being generous...
18:54 Five gold medals to be won in athletics tonight, in the men's 5,000m, the women's 3,000m steeplechase and 10,000m, the men's hammer and the women's shot. First up however it is the heats in the 400m and 100m.
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18:37 Back here, and the eyes of South Korea are firmly locked on the baseball now because, after the surprise loss against Japan earlier, the host nation are just beginning their clash with China in the second semi-final. The winner of this one will meet Taiwan in the final, with the loser up against Japan for bronze.
Budsabakorn remains out in front in golf
18:29 With all due respect to these Asian golfers, the eyes of the sport are probably not on Incheon but on Gleneagles for the Ryder Cup, a biennial, three-day clash between the best players from Europe and the United States. It is one of the most compelling rivalries in sport, and, incidentally, Europe hold the lead after the first day. I feel that, as a Scot and a golf fan, not to mention a keen golfer himself, International Olympic Committee vice-president Sir Craig Reedie will be among those with his eyes firmly locked on proceedings...
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18:25 On the men's side, meanwhile, Pan Cheng Tsung shot a brilliant 65 today to stay out in front. Youm Eunho and Kim Namhun of South Korea lie second and third. Taiwan still lead the team competition as well, with South Korea and Thailand close behind.
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While not having a good first round with a 71, South Korea's Park Gyeol caught up a shot with a 67 to end at 11 under for the competition, after the best round of the day. After two days in which she has performed superbly, could she have the momentum heading into the final day...?
Semi-final success for China and South Korea in badminton
18:10 It will be an all Chinese women's final, meanwhile, as reigning Olympic champion Li Xuerui and 2011 world champion Wang Yihan both win their semi-finals today. Yoo Yeonseong
Lee Yongdae, meanwhile, become the first men's doubles finalists, after overcoming Malaysian opponents today. The main event tonight is the women's doubles final, where pairs from Japan and Indonesia.
18:02 If Nicol David is the heroine of Malaysian sport, then Lee Chong Wei is the hero. He has won his quarter-final clash in badminton today, but it wasn't easy. He was pushed to 21-17 in the final set against Nguyen Tien Minh of Vietnam before taking the win.
He is joined in the semi-finals by bitter rival Dan Lin of China, who won in two straight games today over Kenichi Tago of Japan. World champion Chen Long is also through after winning 2-0 against Son Wan-ho, while the final place is taken by Wei Nan of Hong Kong.
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India take first blood in squash team event
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17:44 So, 13 out of 24 gold medals have now been won today. There's a little bit of a void now at a time in the day when we would usually be talking weightlifting, or track cycling, or bowling.
Worry not, we have five athletics finals, one in badminton and four in wrestling to come later. And right now it is the men's team squash final, the final squash event of the Games.
South Korea looking to baseball for cricketing success
17:35 Speaking of cricket, the South Korean men's team are banking on on professional baseball stars to convert home runs into sixes and boundaries at the Twenty20 competition in the Asian Games.
As many as seven of the 11 men that played in their eight wicket defeat to Malaysia this morning came from baseball, which as I have learned the last few days, is a major passion here. Their cricket team, on the other hand, was assembled especially for the Games less than two years ago. Some took to the sport just six months ago. South Korea wanted cricket taken off the Games programme as it knew nothing about it. The Olympic Council of Asia had to step in apparently to remind the organisers that it was a popular sport across the continent.
So the organisers found a patch of land near the main stadium in Incheon for a cricket field, but the bigger worry was finding players. The domestic league features mainly expatriates from South Asia, but the Korean Cricket Association had to field local players to meet qualification rules and turned to baseball to help. Englishman Julien Fountain, who had previously coached for Pakistan and the West Indies, was taken on board to teach them new skills.
"The basic skills are the same, one only needs to harness baseball talent to cricket," Fountain, a former baseball player himself, told AFP. "These guys have picked up cricket fast. They have come on dramatically over the last year, it's just that they lack experience of the nuances of the game."
Fountain, who joined the squad in April, made the players watch Indian Premier League matches on their computer screens to give them a feel of big-time Twenty20 cricket and teach then quirky shots, including the switch hit and reverse sweeps. Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan, whose trademark scoop played over the wicket-keeper's head on bended knees, attracted plenty of attention. 'Dilscoop' soon became 'teugjong', the Korean word for scoop.
South Korea and Iran win individual compound archery titles
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17:26 That is the fourth and final gold medal in compound archery today. Two went to South Korea and one each for India and Iran. There are no immediate plans to add compound event to the Olympic programme, but it is certainly a long-term aim, and it is hoped that compound events can be included at events such as the European Games in the more immediate future.
Personally I feel the recurve is a little more exciting, due to the bow which is a bit less advanced and because of the set-scoring system, which gives players more chance of fighting back. A bit of a shameless plug, but here is more information on the growth of archery, including its embracing of Hollywood! Archery focused on the big picture after innovative World Cup Final weekend
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Paul Marton Dela Cruz of the Philippines took the bronze medal.
Malaysian success in hockey
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"You won in squash as well," I say. "Yes, but we knew that would happen," is the brusque response. "This is more unexpected." She adds, however, that Nicol David is one of the biggest sporting names in her home country, famed for her education and intelligence as well as for her squash. David is indeed an infinitely useful asset for the sport in its quest for Olympic inclusion.
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A Twenty20 win with 103 balls to spare in cricket...
16:52 It's been a difficult couple of days for Nepal following the news that three of their team members have gone missing (see our article here). But they've put those worries behind them with a fairly spectacular win over Kuwait on the opening day of cricket action. Kuwait lost a wicket in the first over and from their thinfs got worse. Beidas Tareq and Bastaki Fahad top scoring with four as the team were 20 all out in 14 overs. And wait for this, Nepal took less than three overs to knock of the runs, winning with 103 balls to spare!
"Tomorrow match will not be as easy as today's gem," said Nepal player Paras Khadka afterwards. "We need to focus on our strengths rather than thinking about what our opponents can do or what they are really doing. So we hope we can focus on our strength and it will be fine."
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North Korean shooter reflects on motivation
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16:34 A fairly frantic period all of a sudden with gold medals being won everywhere. There are more to come as well, with the men's archery compound team final at the moment, and wrestling semi-finals also taking place...
Gold medals won in archery, shooting and squash
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16:10 Seok Jihyun leads Choi Bomin by one going into the final set of the all South Korean compound archery final, so we will squeeze in two other gold medals before updating you on that...
Taiwan shock Japan in baseball
16:06 And the shock result which was on the cards earlier has come to fruition. Taiwan have beaten Japan 10-4 to progress to the men's baseball final. The winner of the semifinal between China and South Korea, which is to be held at 18:30, lie in wait.
The host nation are heavily favoured to beat China, and, considering they walloped Taiwan in the group stage, will be fancying their chances. A South Korean victory would be great for the Games, a bit like a Russian ice hockey one would have been at Sochi 2014. But it will be tinged with a little bit of disappointment that they won't be able to do it in style, against their fiercest rivals.
Japan's long wait for an Asian Games baseball title continues. They won at Hiroshima 1994, the first time the sport was included on the programme, but have managed two silver and two bronze medals since. South Korea have won three out of the last four events, with Taiwan winning at Doha 2006.��
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Cycling time trial won by Kazakh as Kyrgyzstan rival wins fourth consecutive silver
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Bronze on this occasion goes to Hossein Askari of Iran, so it is good to see different nations winning medals.
15:54 We're going to have a flurry of gold medals in a moment. Trisha Deb of India takes compound archery bronze and the all South Korea final is underway, and Nicol David is 2-0 in the squash, meaning Malaysia are closing in on gold in the women's team final. And here comes the Kazakh...
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15:45 A lot suddenly going on around the ground, from squash to shooting, archery to baseball, and cycling to beach volleyball. Only a few men are still to finish in the cycling time trial, and could we have an Iranian winner? Hossein Askari, bronze medallist four years ago, is leading in 51:19.77, after taking 50 seconds off the time set by Beppu.
But one of the men still out on the road is Evgenii Vakker of Kyrgyzstan. Remarkably, he has finished runner-up in this event at the last three Asian Games, on South Korean soil at Busan 2002, and then in Doha and then Guangzhou. Can he go one better here?
A major shock in baseball?
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This would be a major, major shock.
Malaysia heading for gold in squash
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Don't worry India, you've only got to overcome probably the greatest player in the history of the sport to stay in this one... Singles champion and world number one Nicol David is up next against Rebecca Pallikal Dipika.
15:24 Best kit of the day? This is Ian Patrick Chipeco of the Philippines competing in the men's team bronze medal match earlier. They lose, unfortunately, to Iran.
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15:17 Our second road cycling competition of the day is also underway, the men's individual time trial taking place over a distance of 42km's. Most of the biggest names are coming at the end, but a strong mantle has just been delivered by Fumiyuki Beppu of Japan. He stops the clock at 52:08.99.
Two more titles for China in shooting
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15:06 Individual semi-finals are also just beginning in the shooting. Zhang is the only member of that Chinese squad through to the last four, and she will be joined by one competitor apiece from South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan.
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14:50 Back in archery and we can now confirm it will be an all South Korean final in the women's event. Choi Bo-min of South Korea advanced to the gold medal match by defeating Huang I Jou of Taiwan with a score of 145-139. Choi will be competing against her team mate, Seok Ji-hyun in the finals.
Kazakhstan shock China in beach volleyball
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The third set was nip and tuck. China began to show their usual powerful spikes. But it was hard to chase down Kazakhstan. Bao Jian received a yellow card for complaining about the judgment on his attacks. Also, even with China's attacks, Kazakhstan was unbreakable. Kazakhstan won the third match 15-11 and advances to final." - An Incheon 2014 update on the beach volleyball. They could be facing another Chinese pair in the final, as Chen Cheng and Li Jian are currently 1-1 with their Indonesian opponents in the other semi-final.
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Malaysia facing India in women's team squash final
14:31 The women's squash team final has just begun Yeorumul Squash Courts where Malaysia will do battle with India.
The first match of the final has Delia Odette Arnold, the Malaysian world number 33, up against Anaka Alankamony, who sits 125 places below her opponent as the world number 158.
It looks to be a straight forward win on paper for the Malaysian who sits 2-0 on sets.
14:13 After an urgent phone call on Thursday evening, followed by an early morning flight on Friday, I (Paul) have made it here to South Korea to dive head-first into this Asian Games experience.
In typical insidethegames fashion (we don't hang about you know) I've headed straight to the workroom to crack on with our live blog and give Nick a much needed 30 minutes off. (I know a whole 30 minutes! I'm nice like that....)
Despite some difficulties logging into the nifty MyInfo system, a key tool for any reporter covering a major sporting event, I'm finally in and ready to bring you up-to-date with all the action underway at the minute.
Kicking-off in sepak takraw
13:48 It will be Thailand v South Korea, incidentally, in the men's team final after Thailand overcame Malaysia, despite this amazing shot below, while the host nation beat Indonesia. Both those semi-finals were held yesterday.
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13:40 Myanmar defeated Indonesia 2-1 in the women's sepak takraw team semifinal earlier as they continue their bid for the third gold medal in the sport. They will face either Thailand and Vietnam later, who kick-off later. I use the phrase "kick-off" with a slight note of caution because it is a taboo description in our office, except in sports that are actually kicked-off to start.
Woe betide anyone who writes: "the boxing final kicked-off", for example. If there were unforgivable sins at insidethegames, that one would be right up there along with spelling the country Colombia as "Columbia" or the word programme as "program". "Columbia is a university in New York and program is a set of coded instruction for a computer, nothing else," we have all been told...
In this case, kick-off is permitted however because in sepak takraw the players do actually kick the ball, after a pass from a team mate, to start play. We can add it to our list, along with football, american football and rugby.
13:29 South Korea are leading the way in the team skeet qualification stakes at the moment while China are looking good in the rifle 3 positions individual final, with three more shooting results to bring you today.
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And it took just 32 minutes for China to wrap up the win, with Zhu Yuling taking just nine minutes to defeat her opponent, Elina Maharjan.
South Korean wins cycling time trial opener
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Na recorded a time of 37:54.43 seconds over the 28km route, a massive 52 seconds quicker than China's Li Wenjuan. Hong Kong's Jamie Wong Wan Yiu claimed bronze in a time of 38:57.65.
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12:55 Elsewhere, we have a break now until the individual archery events later, while only qualification action in the shooting is ongoing at the moment, in the women's skeet event. Away from the medals, it is the first day of action in table tennis and canoe sprint today, with lots of heats and team preliminary matches ongoing throughout the day.
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12:46 Another event taking place this afternoon is the women's cycling time trial, a 28km test against the clock on the Songdo Road Cycling Course. There are only 10 entrants here, a little disappointing that, but the World Championships are going on at the same time in Ponferrada, Spain, I guess. Li Wenjuan of China is our current leader with a time of 38:46.26.
All the riders have now exited the starting pen.
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Malaysian wushu player and a failed drugs test? Did he? Did he? So did he?
12:30 Basically, we eventually surmise that Yi Sophany, the Cambodian soft tennis player whose test was muted at the same time as the Malaysian wushu one before being confirmed the following day, did not request a B-sample. Jegathesan does confirm that no failed tests will be announced until after the B-sample process has been completed, which was not the case at the Commonwealth Games, where provisional suspensions were announced.
So a betting man would surmise the Malaysian wushu player has requested a B-sample and that process is ongoing. But in case I didn't make it clear below, nothing has yet been confirmed! I think Jegathesan's position is complicated by the fact he is a Malaysian himself (and the deputy President of the Olympic Council of Malaysia) so is taking a less direct role in order to preserve neutrality.
12:24 An impromptu round-table took place after the press conference, and a remarkable exchange takes place between Jegathesan and the Malaysian press corps.
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Jegathesan is a fascinating character In 1966, he won three sprinting gold medals at the Bangkok Asian Games and was nick-named the "Flying Doctor" due to his simultaneous medical prowess. He also competed at three Olympic Games in the 1960s. And he has had a busy summer because he is also chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation Medical Commission. But as he is asked yet again about the wushu case, even he is showing signs of having had enough, asking for them to stop asking the same question, "I'm an innocent man!" he adds.
12:15 A break in the action now to bring you up to date with the OCA press conference earlier with Dr. M. Jegathesan. He made some interesting comments about people who fail drugs tests, claiming they are always in one of three categories. 1) Ignorant or Innocent 2) The victim of what somebody else in their entourage has done, or 3) A hardcore drugs cheat.
The OCA, who are in charge of "Games-time" management, are conducting tests based on intelligence and information they are given, perception of risk, and an equal distribution across sports and countries. But it is "not just an occasion to catch and punish athletes but also an educational programme".
China and both Korea's on target in shooting and archery
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11:58 At last. At long last. India take their second gold medal of Incheon 2014 to follow the one won by Jitu Rai a week, and 200 gold medals, ago! Where would India be without target sports? In fact, where would have been every morning of the Games?
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Sandeep Kumar and Rajat Chauhan the winning trio.
11:45 It's a 10-10-9 from both Indians in the third leg, while South Korea go 10-10-10 and 10-9-9. so the two-point lead remain. Listening to archery with South Korean commentary is fantastic, because the prose is punctuation with dramatic explosions of "10,10,10", or, as it comes across, "tin, tin, tin". An eruption of excitement every time a shot is fired, I really do think excited commentary adds to the spectacle of any sporting event, even if you don't have a clue what they are saying...
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The recurve event, with it's set-orientated system, is much more volatile, with more swings and roundabouts during the course of a match.
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China's Zhai Yujia won the silver with 383 points and South Korea's Jeong You-jin took the bronze with 381 points.
11:16 We will bring you more reaction to that swimming story when we get it, and from the OCA anti-doping press conference, but lets get up to date with the sport first, with some reaction from the women's compound archery final...
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- Choi Bo-min dedicates the women's compound medal to a former coach.
Former world swimming champion from Japan sent home for stealing camera
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11:07 Some breaking news to report, as the head of the Japanese swimming team, Tsuyoshi Aoki, reveals that swimmer Naoya Tomita has been expelled from the team after stealing a camera from a South Korean photojournalist, prompting a police investigation and apologies from Japan.
"The swimmer stole a camera from a South Korean journalist that was left in the area," he told reporters a few moments ago. "CCTV revealed the swimmer had put the camera into his bag. The South Korean cameraman had reported it missing and CCTV revealed the culprit. He has confessed to stealing the camera but interrogation is still on. He has not been booked officially.