ByThe Related Press
October 9, 2023, 12:11 AM
Korea’s Kim Changsu, proper, and Mongolia’s Tulga Tumur-Ochir compete throughout their Males’s Freestyle 65Kg wrestling quarterfinal on the nineteenth Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. (AP Photograph/Aaron Favila)
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HANGZHOU, China — The Asian Video games wrapped up Sunday with China dominating the medal rely, adopted by Japan and South Korea. China has historically been robust within the occasion and it was once more, benefiting from being at dwelling within the japanese metropolis of Hangzhou.
The Asian Video games function extra opponents than subsequent yr’s Summer time Olympics in Paris. About 12,500 participated, in comparison with about 10,500 anticipated in France.
The video games supplied all the normal Olympic sports activities, and likewise a glimpse of 1 sport that’s previewing subsequent yr in Paris — breaking, or breakdancing. And one other, cricket, which can be included in both the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics or in 2032 in Brisbane.
It additionally supplied some competitions not seen anyplace else in a multi-sports occasion: dragon boat racing, kabaddi, sepaktakraw (foot volleyball), 3×3 basketball and curler skating.
China is reported to have spent about $30 billion to arrange Hangzhou as a grand stage to point out off its financial energy to its neighbors, impress the native inhabitants and promote town. The organizers additionally had an additional yr to arrange, delayed from 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Although China, Japan and South Korea are the powers on the Asian Video games, many smaller nations and territories — 45 had been represented — have an opportunity to win medals, which many are unable to do within the bigger Olympics.
