After two rounds of winning on the ring at the Doha Asiad, a former Wushu champion from Thailand stepped further toward a boxing gold here on Wednesday.
North Korea knocked Japan out of the Asian Games and set up a quarter-final clash against South Korea with a shock 2-1 win at the Qatar Sports Club on Wednesday.
Iraqi 10-year-old Amer Ali, the youngest swimmer at the Asian Games, will have to speed up a little before winning gold medals, but just reaching Qatar was an achievement.
Gan Lin ran away with his second gold medal as China maintained their awesome showing in the Asian Games shooting on Wednesday, adding three more titles to their already impressive collection.
World champion chess master Zhu Chen is now a Qatari citizen and is representing the Asian Games hosts as she battles for gold against opponents from her former hometown.
Qatar advanced into the quarter-finals of the Doha Asian Games men's basketball tournament after holding off Jordan 71-64 for a third straight win here on Tuesday.
China's world-record holder Liu Xiang will be defending his title in the 110-meter hurdles, and Saudi Arabia has brought in one of the world's best coaches to prepare its team for the Asian Games' athletics competition.
China and Japan took three gold medals apiece while South Korea seized one gold through up-and-coming star Park Tae Hwan from the seven swimming finals taking place at the 15th Asian Games here on Tuesday.
Seven men's teams and four women's bade farewell to the Doha Asiad's beach volleyball event Tuesday after losing in the sudden-death matches.
South Korea, Uzbekistan and Thailand have qualified for the knockout stage with three straight wins after Tuesday's soccer matches at Doha Asian Games.
An invincible China has added seven more gold medals to its bulging bag of Asian Games titles, with more in store when its world class gymnasts and badminton players spring into action.
Japan, China and South Korea were neck-and-neck on the final day of Asian Games' judo competition with just four golds left to be decided.