The 15th Asian Games closed in spectacular fashion on Friday in a multi-million dollar arabesque fantasy, with swashbuckling sailors duelling in the soft light of 40,000 lanterns.
Even without Yao Ming, China remains the team to beat in Friday's Asian Games gold medal game against host Qatar.
China continued to gobble up gold at the Asian Games on Wednesday, dominating across the spectrum of sports.
The Asian Games are winding down, and Mohammad Al Khatib is starting to worry about going home. It won't be easy. The karate athlete got here two weeks late because of the closure of a checkpoint on the road out of Gaza, and he's not sure he'll have any better luck on the return trip.
The final part of the closing ceremony for the Doha Asian Games will show the world a new China, organizers of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games said.
China's track and field athletes added four more golds on the last day of the event in Doha, averaging the number they got in Busan Games four years ago.
One athlete was disqualified from the Asian Games for importing drugs while another got the chop from karate on a turbulent Tuesday at the Asian Games.
The success of the 15th Asian Games has proved host Doha's capability of staging big event and is part of a strategy to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to the west Asian country.
Winning the Asian Games 200 metres in a veil proves there are no barriers to Muslim women pursuing their sporting dreams, champion Ruqaya Al Ghasara said on Monday.
Chinese beach volleyballers have made December 11, 2006 a day to remember as they wrapped up for the first time both of two gold medals at Asian Games on Monday.
Liu Jing upset fellow Feng Yun to win the women's 100 meters hurdles and Huang Xiaoxiao won another gold from the track and field after clocking 55.41 seconds at the women's 400m hurdles at the Asian Games.
Two weightlifters from Uzbekistan tested positive at the 15th Asian Games here and have been disqualified, said the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Sunday.
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