From athletes with an Olympic pedigree to those who hope to add a Beijing medal to their collection, the Asian Games brings together some of world's best in the last multi-event competition before 2008.
The sport's governing body (IWF) handed down the fine after nine Iranian lifters tested positive for doping in September, forcing Iran to pull out of the world championships in Dominican Republic.
Indonesia's sepaktakraw team has to clear its first hurdle this Saturday in its encounter with South Korea at the Al-Sadd Sports Indoor Hall in Doha if it wants to collect a medal.
The 27-year-old Thai is a gold-medal hopeful in Doha. Chaiya Sukjinda was the last Thai weightlifter to win an Asiad gold in the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok. Since then, no Thai lifter has made it that far, according to Thursday's Bangkok-based English daily The Nation.
Double Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima will be looking to resurrect his career at the Asian Games following a dismal year in the pool.
Malaysia king Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, who was earlier scheduled to compete in the equestrian event of the Doha Asiad, was confirmed on Wednesday to quit the Games due to a royal ceremony at home.
Vietnam hopes to take home at least one more gold medal than the four it won in Busan, the top official of the Vietnamese delegation said in the Doha Athletes' Village on Wednesday.
Malaysian shuttler Roslin Hashim was confirmed here on Wednesday to miss the upcoming Asia Games slated here for December 1-15 due to an elbow injury.
The DAGOC (Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee) bills "the games of life" to the forthcoming 15th Asiad. The "green element" in Doha now is poised to add weight to their motto.
World and Olympic Champion weightlifter Pawina Thongsuk insists she will be fit in time for the Asian Games, despite sustaining a knee injury six days before the competition.
The triathlon team of the Philippines to the Doha Asian Games has set a modest goal - to at least crack the elite 8 of the event, local media reported on Wednesday.
Japan's soccer and baseball teams each won their first games at the Asian Games on Wednesday as the countdown continued to the sold-out opening ceremony Friday before 50,000 spectators.
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