South Korea's Lee Hyung-taik may skip the Asian Games team tennis event after a gruelling ATP season, coach Jeon Young-dai said on Tuesday.
South Korea needed less than two minutes Tuesday to show why it's a favorite to win its fourth Asian Games soccer title.
The 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold medalist Zulfiya Zabirova posed the biggest threat to Chinese women cyclists in the upcoming Doha Asian Games to be held from December 1 to 15, said a Chinese official here on Tuesday.
Chef de mission of the Malaysian delegation Dato' A. Sani Karim said here on Tuesday that his country expects to win eight gold medals at the upcoming Asian Games to be held here from December 1-15.
Lee Hyung Taik, beaten finalist of the Busan Games tennis men's singles, was set to fight hard to win at Doha.
Ichiro, Matsui, Matsuzaka? Not this time. Japan hasn't called back any of its Major League stars for the Asian Games, and its collection of college and amateur industrial league players, though determined and talented,will be hard-pressed to get past Taiwan and defending champions South Korea.
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Doha Asian Games is a very important occasion for Japanese delegation to know their Asian rivals in their build-up for the Beijing Olympic Games, a Japanese Olympic Committee official said here on Monday.
Indonesia has targeted at least two gold medals from the taekwondo competition at the 15th Asian Games which starts this week in Doha.
Doha-bound Afghans will show a new image of the war-ravaged country and vie for medals in taekwondo, karate or wrestling in the Asian Games, an Afghan sports official told Xinhua on Monday.
Thailand's international tennis star Paradorn Srichaphan's decision to return to Thailand's Asian Games tennis team has made the squad the hot favorite to win the gold medal in the men's team event in Doha.
Ahmad Ali Al-Mawlawi, chef de mission of the host delegation, said on Monday that he expected Qatar to win at least four gold medals, the same number they won in the Busan Asian Games four years before.