A top Chinese sports official said on Thursday that the country's gold harvest at the ongoing Asian Games was not a surprise.
Han Yucheng of China won the first athletics gold medal of the Doha Asian Games on Thursday, shrugging off the rainy conditions in this desert city to win the 20-kilometer walk.
World short course champion Qi Hui of China made the third successful defence here on Thursday as she clinched the 200m individual medley title in the 15th Asian Games.
Indonesian top player Taufik Hidayat blasted out Bao Chunlai of China in straight sets in the badminton men's singles quarterfinals here on Thursday at the 15th Asian Games.
The sailors and windsurfers who were competing in the sailing races of the 15th Doha Asian Games encountered pouring rain and wind squalls on the open sea of Doha Bay on Thursday, the third day of the sailing competition.
Top-seeded Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China was eliminated from the badminton men's doubles quarterfinals here on Thursday at the 15th Doha Asian Games.
Wang Hao and Guo Yue struck a blow for youth in China's almost all-conquering table tennis team by claiming the coveted men and women's singles crowns at the Al Arabi sports club on Thursday.
For someone who took up snooker as a boy to escape boredom, Ding Jinhui is not doing badly.
World number four Wang Hao charged over team-mate and world number two Ma Lin and snatched his first title while Guo Yue had a tougher time before edging Chinese Hong Kong's Tie Yana 4-3.
Qi Hui completed her hat-trick of gold medals for the under-pressure Chinese swimming team at the Asian Games with a convincing victory in the women's 200m individual medley on Thursday.
Japan sounded a warning to China ahead of the Beijing Olympics by matching the swimming giants' gold medal tally at the 15th Asian Games, while a South Korean teenager became the fastest Asian ever over 1,500m on Thursday.
Hong Kong Secretary for Home Affairs Patrick Ho Thursday sent his heartfelt congratulations to the Hong Kong team for winning four more medals in the table tennis and snooker events in the Asian Games in Doha.
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