2026 Asian Games

Tom Kim shot a six-under-par 64 in the final round.

Mun Do-yeob has already completed his military service.

Son Heung-min served for only three weeks in 2020 having won the Asian Games with South Korea two years earlier.

India and Pakistan competed in the Asian Games cricket final.

The Asian Games cricket final was a gold medal match.

Shreyas Iyer departed for 21.

Hasan Nawaz's 96 came off 51 deliveries with seven sixes and five fours.

The final took place in Nagoya, Japan.

Abdul Samad scored an unbeaten 30 off 15 balls in Pakistan's semifinal.

India and Pakistan are playing in the Asian Games 2026 men's cricket final for the gold medal.

Pakistan last beat India in T20Is on September 4, 2022, in an Asia Cup semifinal.

Alex Eala skipped the mandatory China Open in Beijing to play at the Asian Games and may face a fine and ranking penalty from the WTA.

Alex Eala said she had no regrets about competing at the Asian Games.

Alex Eala was the top seed at the Asian Games.

Al Jazeera provided a live updates page for the match between India and Pakistan.

India defeated Sri Lanka by 124 runs in the Asian Games men's T20 cricket semifinal.

All four semifinalists qualified by virtue of their international rankings, with their quarterfinals abandoned due to rain.

Sri Lanka were dismissed for 45 runs in 9.5 overs while chasing a target of 170.

Anahat Singh reached the women's singles final by beating Japan's Satomi Watanabe in the semifinals after being two sets down.

Subramaniam, ranked world number five, defeated India's Anahat Singh 11-4, 11-4, 11-7 in 23 minutes in the women's singles final.

Ng and Subramaniam became the first squash players to qualify for the 2028 Olympics.

Yuki Kurihara is 11 years old.

Kurihara won the Puyo Puyo Champions final 10-2.

Kurihara said he felt embarrassed after winning and could not show his expressions.

Kishore Kumar beat Ikko Watanabe of Japan at the Asian Surfing Championships.

India's surfing team at the 2026 Asian Games includes Sugar Shanti Banarse, Kamali Moorthy, Kishore Kumar, and Sivaraj Babu.

Surfing makes its debut at the 2026 Asian Games.

The event took place at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Thursday.

Qin Haiyang settled for bronze in the 100m breaststroke at the Asian Games.

Ohashi said the world record was his goal and that his next goal is the gold medal at the world championships.

Indonesia's Diana Tri Wijayana won bronze with a total lift of 191kg.

Chanu's silver ended India's 28-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Asian Games since Karnam Malleswari won silver in 1998.

Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Japan's Mio Narita finished third in the 400m individual medley at the Asian Games.

Yu Zidi became the youngest medallist at the World Aquatics Championships last year, winning bronze for China's relay team at age 12.

Ke Wenxi of China won the silver medal in the 400m individual medley, finishing 3.95 seconds behind Yu Zidi.

This was Nasser Al-Attiyah's sixth medal at the Asian Games overall.

Nasser Al-Attiyah is 55 years old.

Nasser Al-Attiyah has six Dakar Rally titles.

India's first MMA medal at the Asian Games was overshadowed by controversy over the result.

Suchika Tariyal accused the Asian MMA Association of favouring Singapore.

Suchika Tariyal refused to shake hands with her Singaporean opponent after a defeat in the semi-final bout.

Bangladesh scored 114-7 in the bronze medal match.

Mithali Ayodhya conceded eight wides in the final over.

Sri Lanka were bowled out for 69 in 15.4 overs.

Fariba Hashimi trained disguised as a man when she started out in the sport as a teenager.

Fariba Hashimi left Afghanistan after the Taliban authorities took over.

The Asian Games women's road race took place near Nagoya in Japan.

The match began at 2pm (05:00 GMT).

The match was held at the Korogi Sports Park in Nisshin.

India faced Sri Lanka in the women's T20 cricket final at the Asian Games 2026 in Japan.

Smriti Mandhana became the highest run-scorer in women’s T20 international cricket.

India defeated Bangladesh by 114 runs in an Asian Games semifinal.

Sri Lanka advanced to the Asian Games final after defeating Pakistan by eight wickets.

Arsalan Kazemi was the first Iranian to be drafted into the NBA by the Washington Wizards in 2013.

Iran's former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced in 2018 that male athletes from Iran's national teams who win medals at the Asian Games are granted exemption from mandatory military conscription.

Iranian males reaching the age of 18 are required to serve two years on active duty.

The opening ceremony of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games took place at the Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium in Nagoya.

India's cricket board arranged for the men's cricket team to stay in a separate hotel due to a tight allocation of beds from organisers.

2,000 families in Nagoya offered to house India's athletes should the accommodation shortage continue.

Alex Eala will skip the concurrent Beijing Open to compete at the Asian Games.

Arshad Nadeem set the Asian javelin record of 92.97m at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Yan Ziyi threw 71.74m in May, setting a new Asian and World Under-20 record.

Organisers apologised for playing the North Korean national anthem for the South Korean men's hockey team at the Asian Games in Japan.

A stadium announcer apologised for the anthem mistake.

North Korea's national anthem is banned in South Korea.

North Korea's national anthem was played instead of South Korea's before their Asian Games hockey match against Bangladesh on Friday.

The anthem mix-up occurred at Green Stadium in Gifu, Japan.

The North Korean national anthem is banned in South Korea.

The official housing committee said the accommodation issue arose because they expected 15,000 athletes and officials, but numbers increased as new sports were added.

Korea Basketball Association vice president Jung Jae-yong said athletes who are over two metres tall cannot even stretch their legs out on the beds.

Head of Japan’s cricket association Naoki Alex Miyaji said the participating teams in cricket are being offered hotel accommodation.

Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage's javelins were broken on a flight back from the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship.

Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage won gold at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest, Hungary, with a best throw of 91.09 metres.

Tony Prasanna said they were planning to take three of the broken javelins to the 2028 Olympics and to the Asian Games.

A gold medal in tennis at the Asian Games serves as automatic qualification for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, subject to a top 500 ranking requirement.

Skipping a mandatory WTA 1000 competition without an official exemption results in a ranking penalty and may attract fines.

Alex Eala is ranked world number 18 and is the highest-ranked player in the women's singles draw at the Asian Games.

Indian authorities built replicas of the container huts to get their athletes used to living in them.

Athletes were briefly evacuated from the containers due to record rainfall that caused widespread flooding in Nagoya.

The container huts will house around 2,000 of the guests and are designed to be reused as disaster evacuation facilities.

The games are held in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, and officially open on Saturday.

Some athletes will be accommodated in hotels in Tokyo, where swimming, diving and equestrian events will take place.

Jung Jae-yong is vice president of the Korea Basketball Association.

North Korea defeated Bangladesh 10-0 in their Asian Games women's football match.

North Korea were seven goals ahead by half-time.

North Korea's women face South Korea in a Group F match on September 21.