Asian Games 2018

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Gold for Ganjzadeh even though that was almost guaranteed when Japan had no competitor in this weight (out of 6 events each country should pick 4 for each gender) I'm sure Ganjzadeh was waiting for this moment for 4 years, he got disqualified for protesting in Incheon 2014.

 

but a sure gold medal wasted by Abbasali. she was leading 1-0 with 10 seconds to go and even 1-1 was enough for her since she had "Sansho" but she gave up a 2pts kick she beat this Japanese girl Uekusa a month ago in Asian Championship. but their matches are always close, this time Uekusa won.

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An all Malaysian final in women's squash , surprisingly  joshana Chinappa lost to  Sivansangari 3-1 , while the legendary Nicol David qualified for her 6th final in a row after defeating  Depika Pallikal 3-0

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Another surprise in Squash , Top Seed  Surav Ghosal lost in Semis to  Leo Au 3-2 

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Eko Febrianto was disqualified in his Pencak Silat QF bout.

@MHSN will be shocked to hear that.

 

Also interesting, with gold and silver in Women's Squash, whereas take both medals in the men's competition.

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45 minutes ago, Quasit said:

Eko Febrianto was disqualified in his Pencak Silat QF bout.

@MHSN will be shocked to hear that.

 

 

maybe that was modesty from Indonesians maybe they thought winning all 16 gold medals won't be a good idea !

[Gianlu33 4,612]

Athletics - Women's Hammer Throw
 LUO Na - 71.42

 WANG Zheng - 70.86

 Hitomi KATSUYAMA - 62.95

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Athletics - Men's Shot Put
 Tajinderpal Singh TOOR - 20.75 GR

 LIU Yang - 19.52

 IVANOV Ivan - 19.40

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Athletics - Women's 10,000
 Daria MASLOVA - 32:07.23

 Eunice CHUMBA - 32:11.12

 ZHANG Deshun - 32:12.78

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Bowling - Men's Team of Six
Korea

Hong Kong

 Chinese Taipei

[MHSN 3,632]

They use a very weird format for volleyball. but based on my understanding here is the bracket

 

Saudi Arabia vs Chinese Taipei

Thailand vs Indonesia

Qatar vs Myanmar

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Korea vs Pakistan

Japan vs India

Iran vs China

 

winner of matches in bold will go directly to the semifinal and for example winner of KOR/PAK match will play the winner of JPN/IND match and winner will play the winner of IRN/CHN.

 

so that's a sure thing we will have a new finalist in the history of Asian Games. Iran, China, Japan and Korea they are aill in bottom half ! (even though Japan and China are here with B teams) none of those teams in top half played in AG final before. Indonesia somehow invented this crazy format to find a way into the medal round. but they lost to Saudi Arabia and Saudis as Group A winner took their place . still Indonesia was lucky in the blind draw for 2nd placed teams and got into the top half.