The stormy relationship between India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will not stop the multiple grand slam winners playing together in the Asian Games men's tennis doubles.
They are the silent minority who seem out of place at an Asian Games teeming with athletes from the world's most populous region.
A dazed and dizzy Jaspal Rana landed India's first shooting gold medal of the Asian Games on Thursday with victory in the 25m standard pistol at the Lusail Shooting complex.
Death cast its long, dark shadow over the Asian Games on Thursday when a fatal fall in the equestrian event shook the Games community.
Played in torrential rain and with nothing at stake but pride, the women's soccer match between Vietnam and Taiwan was one fixture on a busy Asian Games schedule that could easily have been forgotten.
Iraqi athletes are hardly bothered by old equipment or few places to train. There are more pressing worries - the fear of being killed or kidnapped.
Asian champion China and Japan both secured berths in the quarter-finals of the Doha Asian Games men's basketball tournament with respective victories here on Wednesday.
In order to enhance the competitiveness of the sport, the Asian Games road cycling races need more cyclists per team to participate in, said the Union Cyclist International (UCI) president Pat McQuaid here on Wednesday.
Designated hitter Lee Byung-kyu had a solo homer and knocked in four runs Wednesday to lead defending champion South Korea to a 12-2 win over China and the bronze medal in Asian Games baseball.
One day every four years, the ancient sport of kabaddi knocks cricket off its perch as India's national obsession.
Kazakhstan four riders cooperated well to win the men's team time trial of the 15th Asian Games at Al- Khor of Doha here on Wednesday.
South Korea's Kim Hyung-chil died after being crushed by his horse in a heavy fall at the Asian Games equestrian event on Thursday.