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Bahrain's Ali Hassan Mahboob runs to win the men's 5,000m final in Guangzhou, Nov 21.
The gold medal winning Korean women's archery team used the daunting experience of handling snakes as part of its training methods.
With the Guangzhou Asian Games just past the halfway mark, Japan, which used to be the leading sports power in Asia, is third in the medal tally, behind China and Korea.
World No 1 Nicol Ann David dismissed Hong Kong's Annie Au Wing Chi 3-1 to clinch the women's squash singles title in Guangzhou on Sunday and keep her career in the sport's stratosphere, while fellow Malaysian Mohamad Azlan Iskandar followed suit in the men's competition.
Defending champions Guo Yue and Wang Hao both were beaten in the all-Chinese table tennis finals of the Asian Games on Saturday. World's No. 4 Guo, who won the women's singles title in Doha 2004, was defeated by Li Xiaoxia.
Although he won a relay gold medal and two bronze at the Asian Games, China's world champion swimmer Zhang Lin under-performed in the Guangzhou pool.
With 24 gold medals, 16 silver and 14 bronze, the Chinese swimming team overwhelmingly beat archrival Japan (nine gold, 18 silver and 12 bronze) to claim supremacy of the pool at the Asian Games.
Witnessing Park storm to three gold medals in individual freestyle events at the Guangzhou Asian Games while Zhang could only manage a bronze, officially ended the dispute over who is Asia's "freestyle king".
South Korea's Choe Hyeongmin upset the hopes of Iran and Kazakhstan to win the gold medal in road cycling men's individual time trial at Asian Games on Saturday.
The chief of South Korea's Asian Games delegation on Saturday hailed the perfomrances of their athletes at the halfway of the Nov 12-27 event and said the medals they have already won are beyond their expectations.
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