Asiad Faces
Ye Shiwen of China took the gold medal of women's 200m individual medley at the ongoing 16th Asian Games on Thursday, after her gold in the 400-meter individual medley last Sunday.
Pakistan hopes China will help accelerate its transformation from a sporting minnow to another Asian dragon.
At the age of 35, most international gymnasts have moved on to far less strenuous things, but that is not the case for Oksana Chusovitina.
Star hurdler Liu Xiang, whose shock exit from the Beijing Olympics in 2008 still haunts him and his fans, is putting a higher emphasis on safety as he bids to defend his Asian Games title for the second time in Guangzhou.
Nesar Ahmad Bahawi brought war-torn Afghanistan its first medal of the 2010 Asian Games by grabbing a silver in taekwondo on Thursday.
Park Byung-taek became the first shooter to win Asian Games gold medals over two decades as the Republic of Korea (ROK) dominated the Aoti ranges on Thursday.
Singapore's Tao Li defended her title in the 50m butterfly on Thursday and now has her sights set on a podium finish at the 2012 London Olympics.
Chinese teenagers Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen emerged as gold hopefuls for the 2012 London Olympics as the Asian Games swimming competition wound down on Thursday and took host's overall gold-medal haul to 109.
China's Pan Xiaoting and South Korea's Cha Yu-ram compete in the nine-ball pool quarter-finals of Asian Games billiard sports in Guangzhou, Nov 17, 2010.
Guangzhou - While the rest of the world's golfers get to swing their clubs on lush green lawns, Afghans have to do so in the sand.