2026 Asian Games

India and Pakistan competed in the Asian Games cricket final.

The Asian Games cricket final was a gold medal match.

Jay Shah is the son of India's Interior Minister Amit Shah.

Shreyas Iyer departed for 21.

ICC chairman Jay Shah presented medals to the Indian players.

Able-bodied South Korean males are usually required to undertake between 18 and 21 months of military service before the age of 28.

Mun Do-yeob has already completed his military service.

SH Kim missed out on a military exemption as South Korea won silver in the team event.

Ishan Kishan scored an unbeaten 80 off 46 balls in the semifinals.

India's quarterfinal against Afghanistan was abandoned due to rain, and India advanced to the semifinals due to their higher seeding based on ICC T20I team rankings.

India won the last T20 match against Pakistan by 61 runs, with Ishan Kishan scoring 77 off 40 balls.

Alex Eala was the top seed at the Asian Games.

Zhang Shuai is 37 years old.

The Asian Games were held in Nagoya.

Ishan Kishan scored an unbeaten 80 runs from 46 balls in India's innings.

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

India won the men's cricket gold at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou when their final against Afghanistan was abandoned due to rain.

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

Ng, ranked world number 18, defeated India's Abhay Singh 11-9, 11-5, 11-5 in 33 minutes in the men's singles final.

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

Squash will make its Olympic debut at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

Cui Chenxi, 13, won gold in women's street skateboarding at the Hangzhou Asian Games.

Indonesia's Bunga Nyimas won bronze in women's skateboarding aged 12 in Jakarta in 2018.

Kurihara is the youngest athlete in host country Japan's Asian Games history.

Banarse is 20 years old, Moorthy is 16, Kumar is 18, and Babu is 22.

The SFI was recognized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in March 2025.

Surfing makes its debut at the 2026 Asian Games.

Japan's Shin Ohashi broke the men's 200-metre breaststroke world record at the Asian Games.

Ohashi powered Japan to silver in both the men's and mixed 4x100m medley relays.

Shin Ohashi is 17 years old.

Yu Zidi won the 400m individual medley in an Asian Games record time of 4 minutes 28.56 seconds.

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

Yu Zidi is 13 years old.

Nasser Al-Attiyah's career tally of Dakar Rally stage wins reached 50.

Nasser Al-Attiyah secured his latest Dakar Rally title alongside Belgian codriver Fabian Lurquin.

Nasser Al-Attiyah won skeet bronze at the 2012 London Olympics.

Ri Song Gum lifted 94kg in the snatch discipline, breaking the previous world record of 93kg.

North Korean weightlifter Ri Song Gum won gold in the women's 49kg competition at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan.

Mirabai Chanu lifted a total of 198kg, with a snatch of 87kg and a clean and jerk of 111kg.

Suchika Tariyal is an Indian MMA fighter.

India earned its first MMA medal at the Asian Games.

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

Fariba Hashimi left Afghanistan after the Taliban authorities took over.

Fariba Hashimi hails from Faryab province in northern Afghanistan.

Fariba Hashimi won an Asian Games silver medal in the women's road race.

Harmanpreet Kaur scored 19 before being out to long-off.

Mandhana hit seven sixes and five fours in a 45-ball innings.

Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by 31 runs in the bronze medal match.

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.

Japan's Takumi Hojo won the first gold medal of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in the men's individual triathlon on Sunday.

The South Korean men's football team's bus did not show up at the team hotel on Wednesday.

The North Korean national anthem is banned in South Korea.

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

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.

Iran beat China 79-70 to win the Asian Games men's basketball bronze.

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

Pakistan will play Bangladesh for the bronze medal on Tuesday.

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

Yu Zidi is 13 years old.

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

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

South Korea defeated Bangladesh 5-0 in a men's hockey match at the Asian Games.

South Korea coach Min Tae-seok said it is a really serious problem and that those responsible for playing the anthem made a 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.

South Korea has complained about organizational problems at the Asian Games, including room sizes for basketball players and transport issues for the men's football team.

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

The shipping container-style huts in the dock area of Japan’s biggest port will host 2,000 athletes and officials.

Basketball player Byeon Jun-hyeong posted a video on social media showing a leaking sink and a soaked floor in his hut.

Japan’s deputy Chef de Mission Hisashi Mizutori said the Japanese Olympic Committee secured hotels in the city as a backup accommodation.

Jung Jae-yong, vice-president of the Korea Basketball Association, said the accommodation was the worst it has ever been and that athletes over two metres tall cannot stretch their legs on the beds.

More than 17,000 athletes and officials are attending the Games, exceeding the initial 15,000 expected.

Hideaki Omura, president of the organising committee and Governor of Aichi Prefecture, said authorities had budgeted for 15,000 people and had neither the manpower nor the budget to make necessary arrangements for additional athletes.

Senator Erwin Tulfo said the Philippine government should help pay Eala's potential $10,000 WTA fine because she chose to represent the country.

PHILTA secretary-general John Rey Tiangco said PHILTA formally requested an exemption from the WTA and fully supports Eala's decision to represent the Philippines at 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.

Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage is the first Sri Lankan to become a Diamond League champion.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Sports said the government will take up the matter with the airline and take appropriate legal action.

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

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

The Olympic Council of Asia later said everyone would get a place to stay.

A Korean Sport & Olympic Committee official said there was a serious shortage of accommodation for delegations in the Aichi-Nagoya area.

Striker Ri Song-a was born and raised in Japan.

The match took place on a Monday.

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