HANGZHOU: Host China racked up a record 201 gold medals before the curtain came down on two weeks of tears and triumphs at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Sunday.
The 19th and biggest Asiad concluded at the 80,000-capacity Olympic stadium with China handing over to Japan for 2026 at a celebratory closing ceremony.Dancers holding lit-up props fanned out towards the audience in a performance evoking ocean waves while the words 'love Asia' were projected on a big screen.The Games are normally every four years but Nagoya-Aichi has a shorter run-up because Hangzhou was postponed by a year due to China's now-abandoned zero-Covid measures.
' World records tumbled in shooting and weightlifting, with North Korea celebrating their return to the global sporting arena after four years away by hoovering up six weightlifting golds.But the hoisting of their flag -- in contravention of World Anti-Doping Agency sanctions -- was a running controversy in Hangzhou that was never resolved.North Korea's athletes, wearing dazzling white blazers, again waved their flag at the closing ceremony.The scourge of doping was never far away.
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