Mihir Vasavda at Asian Games: Sports where Chinese dominance will be challenged
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More than 12,000 athletes from 45 nations will display the cliched Olympic tenets of faster, higher and stronger across the 481 medal events when the Hangzhou Asian Games begin in earnest from Sunday. But when the Games close on October 8, China will top the medals tally, as it has in each of the last 10 editions since the 1982 Delhi Asian Games.
The host nation has a 886-athlete strong contingent in the fray. This includes 36 Olympic champions and 630 Asian Games debutants, who will compete in 407 out of the 481 medal events and fight for the 74 Olympic qualification berths across multiple disciplines.
India’s ambitious target is an overall tally of 100 medals. For China, nothing less than 150 gold medals will be considered a success.
While it will be smooth sailing for China i...