The Asian Games are an attention grabber. For starters, they involve more participants than the Summer Olympics. Organisers say more than 12,000 will be entered when the opening ceremony takes
Of course, there are the old standbys seen in every Olympics like track and field, swimming, or volleyball - and the usual grandiose opening and closing ceremonies. Nine sports will offer qualification spots for the Olympics - archery, artistic swimming, boxing, breaking, hockey, modern pentathlon, sailing, tennis, and water polo.
China will dominate the medal table as it has for the last 40 years, followed by Japan and South Korea - Asia’s other powers. The vast region stretches from Lebanon on the Mediterranean, through central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, to North Korea with organisers saying 45 nations or territories are entered.. North Korea closed its border early in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic and skipped the Tokyo Olympics, which were delayed a year until 2021.
Taiwan, with only 23.5 million, is a relative sports power in the region and finished seventh in the overall medal standings in Indonesia. The election was ostensibly won by Kuwait’s Sheikh Talal Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the younger brother of Sheikh Ahmad. The elder sheikh is the former 30-year president of the OCA, an organisation that was created by his father.
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