Asian Games 2022

[intoronto 6,622]

Some drama with the men's rugby draw. was excluded and now the OCA is demanding a redraw 

[MHSN 3,785]

On 7/29/2023 at 1:49 PM, Roamingrover86 said:

Has 🇮🇷 announced their football squad for the asian games ? Will they be taking 3 over aged players?

I have to correct my earlier answer. apparently I was very wrong 

 

some names had been leaked and apparently we will have at least 2 overaged players. (or at least 2 we are aware of) of course nothing is final because most clubs don't want to release their players. 

[Olympian1010 8,274]

Finalized completion schedule should be released in the next few days, with the torch relay beginning on September 8th. Link: https://www.hangzhou2022.cn/En/presscenter/spotnews/latestnews/202308/t20230828_70592.shtml

[Griff88 2,015]

 

 

[intoronto 6,622]

https://www.asiarugby.com/2023/09/09/the-asian-games-rugby-7s-event/

 

The  rugby team added back to the competition, however will march under the OCA flag at the Opening ceremony. Is this a first, where a country marches and a team representing them enters separately? 

[MHSN 3,785]

19 minutes ago, intoronto said:

https://www.asiarugby.com/2023/09/09/the-asian-games-rugby-7s-event/

 

The  rugby team added back to the competition, however will march under the OCA flag at the Opening ceremony. Is this a first, where a country marches and a team representing them enters separately? 

I believe this is the first time and that's weird.

 

Indian wrestling federation is suspended too, I wonder if OCA and UWW reach the same agreement in that sport or UWW is just too bad to even think about it 

[MHSN 3,785]

On 7/27/2023 at 2:23 AM, MHSN said:

Iran NOC announced their final list of sports  (well almost final. some changes are always possible) that's something around 270-280 athletes

 

Aquatics / Swimming 4, Diving 1, Water polo 13 (all male)

Archery / 6 M, 3 W

Athletics / 6 M, 2 W
Badminton / 1 M

Basketball / Men's team + Men's 3x3 team

Boxing / 5 M

Canoeing / 8 M, 7 W in sprint, 1 W in slalom

Chess / 5 M, 1 W

Cycling / 2 M (Track&Road) and 1 W (MTB)

Equestrian / will be decided later but I assume nobody

Fencing / 4 only in men's sabre

Football / men's team

Gymnastics / full or incomplete team in men's artistic
Handball / men's team

Judo / 2 M, 1 W

Jujitsu / 2 M

Kabaddi / both men and women team

Karate / 4 M, 4 W (it's possible to send the kata team if they give up a kumitee quota per OCA rules)

Kurash / 3M, 4 W (maximum possible number)

Roller sports / 2+2 confirmed in inline freestyle, possible to send 4+4 in speed skating

Rowing / 2 M, 6 W

Shooting / probably 8+8 but the final number will be confirmed later (after the WCh)

Sport climbing / for now 1+1 but possible to add 2 more men to have a speed relay team

Table Tennis / 3 M, 1 W

Taekwondo / probably a full team but they forgot to write the numbers for this one

Tennis / 1 W

Volleyball / men's team + 1 team in beach volley 

Weightlifting / 5 M, 2 W for now but it's possible to add 3 more

Wrestling / 12 M (full men's team)

Wushu / 8 M, 7 W

 

really disappointed with this, they "claim" for men they end only those who can compete for a medal (with few exceptions like swimming) and for women even top 6 finish will be enough. but yet they dropped women's handball (which finished 4th in Asian Champs twice) and it's not just that they are dropping even some of our small medal chances in other sports yet they are going to send 1 athlete in diving, 1 in Badminton, 1 in Tennis, to do what exactly ? just to increase the number of sports meanwhile decreasing the number of athletes? 

 

if I had to decide I would choose a complete different list. if we are going to send a not-so-big delegation, then swimming, diving, badminton, tennis and most importantly men's football shouldn't go. this U23 team sucks and everybody knows it. 

our NOC finally published the full list of delegation. more or less the same numbers with some changes (additions). but in total it will be 211 male and 78 female athletes 

 

289 is not our smallest delegation ever but we had something like 380 last time in Indonesia. this is disappointing  but not surprising considering the financial crisis and all other problems the country had faced in the past 5 years. improvement was out of the question, at best we could keep our past level which apparently didn't happen.

 

even though the final list is much better than the original list, they added some deserving athletes at the end 

[Vic Liu 1,699]

It's reported that North Korea will send a big team to China around 191 athletes (according to press already registered and accessed official myinfo system), even bigger than that of last two Games in Indonesia and South Korea. And China will send 886 athletes at home, smaller than 2014 but almost all best athletes in all sports.

[Roamingrover86 863]

 will be sending its biggest ever contingent for Asian games. A total of 653 athletes have been cleared by our sports ministry for the games. 

[rybak 3,330]

4 hours ago, Vic Liu said:

It's reported that North Korea will send a big team to China around 191 athletes (according to press already registered and accessed official myinfo system), even bigger than that of last two Games in Indonesia and South Korea. And China will send 886 athletes at home, smaller than 2014 but almost all best athletes in all sports.

I wonder if they will qualify someone to Olympics, most probably in shooting and athletics, if they will show up in Paris..