Part 2:

Guys, its been a while since I last posted but I was busy duing opening day. By the way, I was LIVE in Aljazeera Sports before the opening ceremony. A guy interviewed me while I was walking to the Stadium. Anybody watch?

What!!
Post pics! of post the video! whatever you can post do it!
By the way Halawala, how was the ceremony? ;)

looool haha

its good to be interveiwed !!!

todays vollyball Schedule is :

Men's Preliminary Pool A Match 15 UAE - KSA 18:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall Scheduled

Men's Preliminary Pool A Match 16 IND - LIB 20:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall Scheduled

todays football Schedul is:

Men's Round 2 Group D Match 31 IND - MDV 17:15 Al-Sadd Football Stadium Scheduled

Men's Round 2 Group E Match 32 MAS - CHN 17:15 Al-Arabi Football Stadium Scheduled

Men's Round 2 Group F Match 33 SYR - JPN 17:15 Qatar Sports Club Stadium Scheduled

Men's Round 2 Group E Match 34 OMA - IRQ 19:45 Al-Arabi Football Stadium Scheduled

Men's Round 2 Group F Match 35 PRK - PAK 19:45 Qatar Sports Club Stadium Scheduled

Men's Round 2 Group D Match 36 HKG - IRI 19:45 Al-Sadd Football Stadium Scheduled

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What!!
Post pics! of post the video! whatever you can post do it!
By the way Halawala, how was the ceremony? ;)

Suzan! One word to describe this: FANTACY!

Suzan, I dont have the video since I went on live! I almost chocked and my friends were calling me ON AIR! If somebody has it please post it!

I went with my family and it was a night I will never forget! True we were wet for the beggining (we were seated near the stage in the bottom). But, we forgot that we were cold and wet and ejoyed evey bit. I have tons of photos but I will post them later when I go back to Sharjah!

todays basketball schedul is :

Men's Preliminary Group E Match 7 JOR - SYR 16:00 Basketball Indoor Hall Start List - Scheduled

Men's Preliminary Group E Match 8 KOR - IRI 18:15 Basketball Indoor Hall Start List - Scheduled

Men's Preliminary Group E Match 9 BRN - QAT 20:30 Basketball Indoor Hall Start List - Scheduled

ok were gonna wait halawala yep

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come on syria

Guys, anybody watch Qatar versus Uzbek. 's match. It was a disgrace against the fans. Qatari fans were throwing coke bottles at the players and refferee. It was a disgrace. I even am glad we lost! Until we get an audience that respects themselves, then I will cheer for Qatar. Most of the people though were children and idiot schoolboys who didnt know what the hell was going on and just starting throwing things.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool any way i wish we win aganst uae on 5th of december

Baseball: Korea redeem early losses

Defending champions Korea won their first game of the baseball tournament at Al-Rayyan Sports Club on Sunday, 3 December with Lee Dae Ho leading the attack in a 12-2 drubbing of the Philippines. Lee had three runs batted in on a home run and a single, while starting pitcher Jang Won Sam gave up one hit and struck out five over five innings.

Korea, whose defeats to Japan and Chinese Taipei effectively put them out of the running for the gold medal, jumped ahead 3-0 at the top of the first inning with a one-out single by second baseman Jeong Keun Woo. Jeong came around to score on a two-run homer by his team mate, right fielder Lee Jin Young.

Korea extended the lead to 7-0 in the bottom of the second, highlighted by a two-run triple to centre by Lee Byung Kyu. After Roel Empacis opened the Philippines' third innings with a walk, he was moved to third on a single by shortstop Edmer Del Soccoro and finally scored after a wild pitch for the Philippines' first run of the game.

Korea answered back quickly in the bottom of the inning, with two runs on a two-run home run to deep left by third baseman Cho Dong Chan, chasing starting pitcher Darwin Dela Calzada from the game. In the fourth inning, Lee Dae Ho hit a Roy Baclay fastball over the wall with a runner to push the score to 11-1.

Right hander Woo Kyu Min pitched the sixth and seventh innings, which Fulgencio Rances Jr. took advantage of to run in the second Filipino run. In the bottom of the seventh, Cho Dong Chan hit a home run to drive home Jang Sung Ho and put Korea ahead 12-2.

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a littel rest now littel small rest quick rest

they start again

they missed a goal thouse syrians

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korea wins oh man :(

Today Handball Schedul is :

Men's Preliminary League Group B Match M04 CHN - IRI 16:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall Scheduled

Men's Preliminary League Group A Match M05 QAT - IND 18:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall Scheduled

Men's Preliminary League Group C Match M06 UAE - KSA 20:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall Scheduled

Weightlifting: New world record for China

China’s Chen Yanqing set a world record for the snatch in the women’s 58kg weightlifting event at the Al-Dana Sports Club. Chen lifted 103kg on her first attempt in the snatch, 108kg on her second and 111kg on her final attempt, to beat the previous 110kg record set by compatriot Wang Li in 2003.

Chen, the 2004 Athens Olympic champion, was breathing deeply and appeared nervous when she approached the platform, but she went on to lift the final weight with relative ease.

Chinese Olympic Committee official Ma Wenguan said he had anticipated Chen would establish a new record at the Asian Games Doha 2006. "We were planning to break the world record and we did,” he said. Asked whether he expected China to set more records in weightlifting during the rest of the games, Ma said: “You would wait and see, but I am hopeful we will break more.”:

The snatch is the first component of the women’s 58kg weightlifting event. Competitors must also complete the clean and jerk.

Mashalla Qatar-Son, you should work for AlJazeera sports--that's what I call up to date information!

thanks halawala basketball news
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Total medals

1 CHINA 30
2 JAPAN 13
3 KOREA 18
4 KUWAIT 3
5 KAZAHASTAN 4

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the end of first quarter (there are 4 quarters in basketball ok just reminder)

ow now they ended the first quarter that was just a quick rest lol sorry for the mistake

Weightlifting: Chen sets five world records simply wow

Chen Yanqing of China came out of retirement to set five world weightlifting records at the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006. She convincingly won the 58kg women’s event at Al-Dana Banquet Hall and clinched China’s fourth consecutive weightlifting gold medal.

Chen, the 2004 Olympic champion, opened the snatch portion of the competition with a lift of 103kg. She then hoisted 108kg on her second attempt and raised 111kg on her third attempt to beat the pervious snatch world record of 110kg set in 2003 by Wang Li, also from China.

The 27-year old struggled in the clean portion of the clean and jerk, but managed to set a total of four world records in three lifts. In her first attempt in the clean and jerk Chen hoisted 131kg for a total of 242kg, 1kg over Chinese compatriot Gu Wei’s total world record. On her second attempt, she lifted 137kg to set a new total world record of 248kg.

On her third and final attempt, Chen struggled mightily to get the bar to the clean position, before finally raising 140kg above her head. She received three white lights from the judges but, more importantly, Chen picked up two new world records – 140kg in the clean and jerk and 251kg in the total.

Her nearest competitors both lifted a total of 224kg. Wandee Kameaim of Thailand lifted 98kg in the snatch and 126kg in the clean and jerk to the delight of some extremely vocal Thai supporters. Pak Hyon Suk of DPR Korea produced an upset to lift 97kg in the snatch and 127kg in the clean and jerk.

Even though they both lifted 224kg, Kameaim took the silver and Pak claimed the bronze on the grounds that Pak weighs 0.33kgh more than Kameaim

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Malaysia beat Hong Kong, China

Siti Rahimah Othman scored twice as Malaysia put their medal bid back on track with a 3–1 win over Hong Kong, China at Al-Rayyan Sports Club.
Both teams came into this game looking to bounce back from heavy defeats. Malaysia were beaten 7–0 by Japan and Hong Kong lost 9–0 to China in their opening matches.

Malaysia were first off the mark, scoring from a penalty corner in the fifth minute. Captain Norfaraha Hashim saw her initial hit saved, but Kannagi Arumugam was alert to tap in the rebound.

From the restart, Hong Kong, China kept up the pressure and were rewarded in the 18th minute with a penalty corner, their first of the tournament. Chui O Yuk Olivia drag flicked the ball into the bottom left corner for Hong Kong, China's first goal of the Games.

First half possession was equal, although Malaysia had 10 chances on goal, while Hong Kong, China had only three.

Malaysia regained the lead early in the second half. A through ball from Nurul Nadia Mokhtar found Othman, who was clear on goal but was fouled by the last defender, resulting in a penalty corner.

A well-worked set piece saw Mokhtar dummy a drag flick before Hashim swept the ball to the right post, where Othman deflected into an empty net.

Hong Kong, China then adopted an attacking style, searching for an equaliser, while Malaysia made their own tactical change, stretching Hong Kong China's defence.

Malaysia scored a third in the 65th minute when Othman deflected an Arumugam shot. Arumugam had another chance to increase the tally in the final minute, but her shot went millimetres wide.

Malaysia's coach praised her team's performance today, saying, "Compared to yesterday's game the team played well, improving our performance, but we have to perfect ourselves on our penalty corners."

Hong Kong, China's coach admitted that " I think in the end our legs went away from us."

The win keeps Malaysia's medal hopes alive and will give them confidence ahead of their match against India on 6 December.

Favourites win ahead of showdown

After losing their first match to Korea in the women’s volleyball tournament, Chinese Taipei bounced back to beat Vietnam 3-1 (23–25, 25–18, 25–15, 25–14) in front of an audience filling three-quarters of the Al Rayyan Indoor Arena for this 10:00 start, and briefly topped Pool A ahead of tournament favourites China.

Chinese Taipei started slowly, however, still showing signs of a hangover from their recent fine display at the 2006 World Championships in Japan, and Vietnam took advantage, largely through excellent attacking play from Pham Thi Yen, to win the first set by two points.

Kou Nai Han was instrumental in helping to bring Chinese Taipei back to life in the second set and her slide spikes put the team ahead by six points at the second technical time-out. Kou then paired up successfully with tall middle blocker Lin Chun Yi as Chinese Taipei clinched the set.

A tight third set was enhanced by some good rallies early on as Chinese Taipei started to get into their stride, and captain Chen Shu Li was inspirational in the closing stages as her team reduced their errors and stepped up a gear to close out the game.

Lin Kuang Hung, Chinese Taipei’s head coach said after the match: “In the first set my team didn’t attack properly and the other team’s defence was good. Maybe our defence didn’t do too well, but in the second and fourth sets we attacked well.”

In match 2, favourites China continued to show ominous form and proved far too strong for Korea in a clash of Asian volleyball powerhouses. Playing their first true test of the competition, China were in impressive form, crushing their opponents in straight sets 25–15, 25–15, 25–19.

China started nervously and hesitant blocking allowed the Koreans to make a good start in the first set, but it did little to lift the tempo of the game. Moving into an early 13–7 lead, China had recovered with little effort from their slow start and never relinquished the lead.

Still playing at what appeared to be a leisurely pace, China pulled away with a six point lead at the first timeout in the second set, with Xu Yunli leading the blocking count and denying Korea any opportunity to score.

Korea’s young players were not as mobile as their more experienced opposition and still struggled to get into the game in the third set. The gulf was emphasised by 18 year-old wing spiker Kim Yeon Koung not being able to match the confidence of Yang Hao at the crucial moments.

After a fine display in China’s first match against Vietnam, Wang Yimei was less dominant today and expressed her feelings after the match. “I’m not very satisfied with my performance, most of the time I didn’t score,” she said. “We will do our best and study the other players more [for our next match] as Japan and Korea’s defences are better.”

Vietnam, still looking for their first win in pool A, next play Korea while Chinese Taipei take on defending champions China on Wednesday 6 December.

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Part 2:

Guys, its been a while since I last posted but I was busy duing opening day. By the way, I was LIVE in Aljazeera Sports before the opening ceremony. A guy interviewed me while I was walking to the Stadium. Anybody watch?
I was watching Al-Jazeera but might have missed that part or may be I haven't noticed you since I dunno how you look like!
Tell me, what exactly did you say maybe I'll remember...

remember people today :

hand ball
Men's Preliminary League Group A Match M05 QAT - IND 18:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall Scheduled

basketball
Men's Preliminary Group E Match 9 BRN - QAT 20:30 Basketball Indoor Hall Start List Scheduled

I was watching Al-Jazeera but might have missed that part or may be I haven't noticed you since I dunno how you look like!
Tell me, what exactly did you say maybe I'll remember...

lol same here halawala did you wear thob ?

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and a small rest

and were back

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make that 40 for syria

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make that 46 for syria is catching up

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Handy wins for Bahrain and Japan

Bahrain showed no mercy over an inexperienced Macau, China team as they recorded a thumping victory in the first match of the handball tournament at Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall as they ran out 53–11 winners.

After finishing a disappointing 7th place at the 2005 West Asian Games in Doha, Bahrain looked like they had a point to prove in the early stages of the match and took the lead after just one minute through Abdulrahman Afrooz.

Mahmood Dawood doubled the lead a minute later after being awarded a 7m throw to score the first of 11 goals from 12 attempts – completing a 92 percent success ratio for the match. From then on, it was all Bahrain as they attacked at will and found a number of gaps in the Macau, China defence through which their attack made significent inroads.

Twelve minutes into the first half Lei Kio Chon made history for Macau, China by scoring their first ever handball goal in the Asian Games, but there was little to celebrate as the half wore on; Bahrain continued to find the net to take a 27–5 half time lead.

Bahrain continued to maintain their powerful domination in the second half and poor discipline by Macau, China allowed them even more possession as they were awarded a further five 7m throws.

Hu Weidong, Macau, China’s coach was understandably philosophical after the defeat and stood by his young players. “Our team has a short history and our techniques are not very good. Compared to Bahrain we are a weak team. Today we performed as it should be and it does not bother us if we lose.”

Bahrain’s Sadiq Mohamed Ali, who finished the game with a 100 percent strike ratio of six goals from six attempts, was satisfied with the performance and the way Bahrain prepared for the match. He said: “Macau players are young and it’s their first time in the competition. Our management prepares us to perform well according to each match.”

Japan, who finished fourth in Busan 2002, dominated their opening 15th Asian Games campaign with a convincing victory over Uzbekistan 56–30. Kenji Toyoda went on to be Japan’s highest scorer with eight goals, although the strength in depth across the whole team was evident with seven players scoring five goals or more.

Building on a first half 31–12 lead, the Uzbeks, who are making their first handball appearance at the Asian Games, picked up their play in the second half scoring 18 times, with Alimjan Egemsaparov adding five goals to his tally.

However, the Japanese team continued to overpower their opposition, rattling in 25 more goals in the second half and will be looking to keep up their good form against Saudi Arabia on Monday 4 December.

Despite the convincing victory, Japan coach Ivica Rimanic was not totally happy with his team’s performance and said: “We played well in the first half, but not so good in the second.”

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Golden glory for Kuwaiti shooter

Rising Kuwaiti shooting star Naser Meqlad won his first major international title and gold medal in the men's trap shooting at Lusail Shooting Complex. Twenty four year-old Meqlad finished qualification day 1, held on 2 December, ahead of the rest of the field and held on to that position after qualification day 2 to take a one-shot lead into the 25 shot final.

He fought off the challenge from reigning world champion, Manavjit Singh Sandhu of India and clinched gold with the 23rd shot in the final, to record a 133 winning score. Meqlad's gold medal is the third individual gold medal Kuwait has won in shooting at an Asian Games.

Compatriot Khaled Almudhaf clinched the bronze medal with a 128 score. The 2002 World Champion shooter was 14th after qualification day 1, but defied his lower ranking to rise into a medal position. He notched up the best score of 20 among six final shooters.

Almudhaf's bronze marked the second time Kuwait has two medals in an individual shooting event at an Asian Games. Kuwaitis Fehaid Al-Deehani and Fahad Al-Deehani won gold and silver in the trap at Bangkok in 1998.

Shooters aiming at clay targets flying 105 km/h at unpredictable angles faced an extremely difficult weather mix of unseasonal cold temperatures, heavy rain and gusting winds, during the two days of competition at the shooting complex.

After his victory, Meqlad said: “It is too windy and it does affect me a bit, but everyone is competed under this condition. And actually, I do feel pressure when Sandhu Manavjit Singh's marks are close to me.

"Actually, Sandhu performed very well too. I really need to say thank you to all of my Kuwait people, especially my coach and family too."

Thirty year-old professional shooter Sandhu was a strong gold medal favourite in this event, but lay second after qualification day 1. During the second session, his vision was hampered by a contact lens problem in his left eye caused by the strong winds. He only scored 22 and 21 out of a possible 25 in the last two qualification rounds to take the silver medal.

Sandhu said: "I trained very hard for this game and I have done lots of preparation before. Actually, I feel I tried because I have been training for a long time since the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. And finally, I got a silver medal. I'm still happy with that."

Kuwait also grabbed the gold medal in the team competition, with Meqlad, Almudhaf and Abdulrahman Al Faihan. The Indian team earned a silver medal. Lebanon's team won its first ever Asian Games shooting medal with bronze. The success marked only the seventh time the Lebanon have won an Asian Games medal.

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Double gold for China pistoleers

China struck double gold in the men’s and women’s 10m air pistol finals.

In the men’s final, Tan Zongliang finished with a score of 687.1 to outshoot DPR Korea’s Kim Jong Su, who took silver with 684.8. Korea’s Jin Jong Oh took bronze with 683.4.

Afterwards disappointed silver medallist Kim said: "I was aiming for the gold, so I don't feel too good."

Jin Jong Oh was also unhappy. "It should have been a gold, so I am disappointed and am sorry that I have disappointed a lot of people who had expectations of me. I am getting married after this Games and wanted to give a gold medal as a present to my fiancée."

In the women’s final Tao Luna finished 3 points ahead of compatriot Guo Wenjun with a score of 490.3 to take gold. Guo, who finished on 487.0 took silver, with Korea’s Kim Byung Hee in the 3rd with 484.6.

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both are equal and both are good players

small rest :)

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seconds left

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jordan wins by 68 - 64

mabrook

now for football syria vs japan

remember people today :

hand ball
Men's Preliminary League Group A Match M05 QAT - IND 18:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall Scheduled

basketball
Men's Preliminary Group E Match 9 BRN - QAT 20:30 Basketball Indoor Hall Scheduled

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its hard to foucse on all three !!!!!

Japan play hard to take soft tennis gold

Japan beat Chinese Taipei to take gold in the men’s soft tennis team competition. The Japanese had to come from behind to take the title.

Double act Shigeo Nahahori and Tsuneo Takagawa beat Lin shun Wu and Yeh Chia Lin in a magnificent spectacle for the sport in the deciding rubber. The Japanese duo took the decisive match five sets to three, with their incisive spin on the ball outfoxing Chinese Taipei.

As Taipei’s Lin Shun Wu’s backhand volley went wide on match point to gift Japan the title, the pair were embraced by the rest of their team.

Japan missed their first two championship points in the sixth set as a lucky net cord came to Chinese Taipei’s rescue. The sixth set went to four deuces before Taipei won it 7-5. The advantage appeared to be with Chinese Taipei then, after they had recovered from three sets down to level, but it was a false dawn as the Japanese teams kept their heads in a crisis to prevail.

Chinese Taipei got their noses in front early on when Li Chia Hung and Yang Sheng Fa beat Naoya Hanada and Tatsuro Kawamura in the opening doubles to go one up.

However, Japan’s Hidenori Shinohara took out Wang Chun Yen 4-1 in the singles to level up the final at one rubber each and then Nahahori and Takagawa went on to steal gold.

Korea did a job on Mongolia beating them 2-0 to take the bronze. Jong Young Pal and We Hyu Hwan demolished their opponents in the doubles winning 5-0. It was then left to Kim Jae Bok to wrap up third place with a 4-3 victory over Bayartogtokh Radnaabazar.
The women's team gold was won by Korea, Japan got silver and Chinese Taipei beat China for the bronze.

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oppse forget the uae and ksa goals i made a mistake :)

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i think there's too much score updates here when viewers could just go to the doha 2006 website.... ;) this thread's being filled up with updates from the games website... considering that its in the main qatar forums, as a thread about the whole games. :okay: ....

China’s women paddlers get gold

China’s women’s table tennis team celebrated winning the team event, defeating Singapore in the final as Wang Nan, Guo Yan and Guo Yue all won their singles matches comfortably.

Wang walloped Sun Bei Bei 3-1, Guo saw off Li Jia Wei by the same score and the other Guo rounded things off with a three-love victory over Tan Paey Fern.

All three women won every match they played during the competition. Li Xiaoxia and Chen Qing also get medals as they made up the five-woman team,but were not required to play in the final.

thanks vince_rilian

its ok.. hehe... btw... i read from the phil. forum that there was a report 70% of the performers in the opening ceremonies were filipinos???? was there such official data? must have been just from the philippine media... well, they have their own sources...

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Qui Le leads way for China

Qui Le led a China one-two in the men’s 62kg weightlifting competition at Al-Dana Banquet Hall.

Qui Le’s crucial lift came in the snatch, where he surpassed his rivals with a successful attempt at 142kg.

He then lifted 175kg in the clean & jerk to total 317kg overall, 2kg ahead of compatriot Mao Jiao. Im Yong Su of DPR Korea took the bronze with a total of 300kg.

thats not true it was 100% from around asia china,thiland,india,japan,indonasia and the rest

i think you referin to the specific cultural dance troupes... i mean those performers, like extra roles... very minor roles... but most probably its not 70% but a significant portion due to those pinoys working there?

EDIT: oops... i didn't notice that this is already the 2nd thread.... and its dedicated to sports news, the 3rd thread was the one for discussions.... so i guess i was wrong (my bad)... anyway, nevermind my previous posts... heheheh

China shooting champs claim trio of titles

China’s sharpshooters were on target to take the men’s and women’s 15th Asian Games 10m air pistol titles at Lusail Shooting Complex, with Tan Zongliang and Tao Luna retaining their titles for the third consecutive time.

Men’s world no 1 Tan Zongliang scored 687.1, more than three points down on his score in Busan four years ago but enough for the 35 year-old to defeat the silver medallist, DPR Korea’s Kim Jong Su – a double Asian Games champion in 25m air pistol, who finished with a score of 684.8. It was the sixth straight time China has won the crown.

Korea’s Jin Jong Oh, silver medallist in Busan four years ago, took bronze with 683.4 while teammate Lee Daemyung missed out on medal by a mere 0.4 points. “I was aiming for the gold, so I don't feel too good," said disappointed silver medallist Kim.

Jin was also downhearted: "It should have been gold, so I am disappointed and am sorry that I have disappointed a lot of people who had expectations of me.

“I am getting married after this Games and wanted to give a gold medal as a present to my fiancée."

He is now looking forward to his favoured event - the 50m pistol. "I will be strong and do my best."

In the women’s final, Sydney 2000 Olympic champion Tao Luna also successfully defended her title for the third time. The 32 year-old finished qualification in a new Games record, 391, three points ahead of her compatriot, Guo Wenjun, and stretched her lead in the final round to win by 3.3 points. Former Asian Champion Kim Byung Hee of Korea claimed bronze.

Tao was delighted to claim her third Asian Games gold: "This medal is more important for me than the last one,” she said. “"I am satisfied with this result this time because I got this result under pressure.”

Korean bronze medallist Kim was delighted to win a medal. "I am very shaky at the moment’ she said. “I thought that I was out of the medals altogether but I have won a medal."

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and the game of football syria vs japan ended by the losing of syria and the winning of japan by only 1 goal

the volleyball game was astonishing and ksa won by a landslid as uae lost

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and Qatar wins by 48 - 19 we smaked india down !!!!!!

Takeda masters tough waters

Japan’s Daisaku Takeda revelled in choppy conditions to qualify fastest for the semifinals of the men’s lightweight single sculls.

Takeda clocked 4:16.35 to beat China’s Chu Chonkui by nearly five seconds in the first heat, with only one rower automatically qualifying for the semifinals.

"Starting was a problem as the wind was a bit rough. I thought I would lose in the beginning,” said Takeda. "It’s hard work. I like this weather, it's rough. I have been training in rough water so I was prepared for it."

Ruthtanaphol Theppibal of Thailand was the next quickest in winning heat three while India’s Anil Kumar Mehrolia was first in heat four. Uzbekistan’s Artyom Kudryashov qualified from heat two in the slowest winning time.

China qualified fastest for the men’s four semifinals, winning the second heat in 3:20.81 and by nearly five seconds from Uzbekistan, who also qualify.

He Yi, of China, said: “It was not easy because we were not ready. We do not have experience in Qatar but we want to take the championship.

Pakistan finished 4th and will have to qualify through the repechage although Adeel Sultan Muhammad revealed: “Two of our guys were not well, they were sick.”

Japan won heat one and team member Yu Kataoka said: “We were not able to go fast in the first 250m but then used a power stroke and we achieved 1st place.”

Korea also qualified in 2nd place while India won the third heat with Indonesia going through behind them.

Shin Eun Chul of Korea won the third heat of the men’s single sculls in 4:05.55, three seconds faster than any of his rivals. India’s Bajrangal Takhar also qualified for the semifinals as the top two of each heat went through.

Chen Zheng of China and DPR Korea’s Kang Jin Choi went through from heat one and Mikhail Garnik of Kazakhstan and Filipino Jose Rodriquez qualified from heat two.

Yamamoto makes history

Takashi Yamamoto became the first male swimmer to win gold in the same event at three consecutive Asian Games after touching 1st in the men’s 100m butterfly at the Hamad Aquatic centre.

His Japanese teammate Ryo Takayasu looked set to deny him gold with 15 metres to go but Yamamoto finished strongly and got the touch in 52.54 to break his own Asian Games record by 0.05 seconds.

Takayusu had to settle for silver he swam 52.84 with Asian champion Wang Dong of China claiming the bronze ahead of compatriot Zhou Jiawei.

people dont forget today:

volleyball
IND - LIB 20:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

football - LIVE
OMA - IRQ 19:45 Al-Arabi Football Stadium

basketball
BRN - QAT 20:30 Basketball Indoor Hall

handball
UAE - KSA 20:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

broadcasted on al-kass and asia1 ,asia2 and asia3 but doha-2006 website will provid fully updated information :)

...and the game of football oman vs iraq starts

oman - iraq
0 - 0

the handball and volley ball game will start in 8 minutes whos gonna play well you might just wanna see post #112 ;)

Park gets Korea a swimming gold

Teenage star Park Tae Hwan powered down the final length to win Korea’s first swimming gold of the 15th Asian Games, breaking his own Asian record for the men's 200m freestyle in the process.

The 17 year-old qualified fastest for the final and was expected to end the China-Japan dominance in the pool, but at the 100m turn it was Zhang Lin of China who touched first 0.05 ahead of Park.

Park though began to move clear on the next length and although Zhang tried to reel him in down the final 50m he could not match the Korean’s record time of 1:47.12 – 0.39 seconds inside the mark he set in August.

Qi shows pool composure

Chinese swimming sensation Qi Hui successfully defended her women’s 400m individual medley title, taking gold by a body length from compatriot Yu Rui in a time of 4:38:31.

Qi raced into the lead on the opening leg but that body length disappeared on the backstroke segment as Yu and Japans Maiko Fujino drew level at the 200m turn.

However Qi’s best leg is the breaststroke and it showed, the 21 year-old stroking out to a three body length lead by its completion and while Yu closed to one length on the freestyle she could not deny Qi gold.

The pair were more than three seconds clear of Fujino, who was unchallenged for the bronze medal.

Qi said she had hoped to do better, despite taking gold: "Tonight's performance was not so good. I am not satisfied with the time I got. I got the gold medal, but the time isn't so good. I felt it hard to swim. In the breaststroke I should be better, because it's my favourite and my strongest and I should have had a longer lead during the breaststroke."

Bronze medallist Fujino said: "I'm a bit frustrated that I could not break my personal best. I am not in the best of condition right now. So I'm satisfied that I could swim this fast in this bad condition."

and the volley ball game started 2 mins early

football
oman - iraq
0 - 0

volleyball
india - lebanon
0 - 0

the game of hand ball just started and now the goals are:

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uae - ksa
2 - 7

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oman - iraq
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volleyball
india - lebanon
0 - 0

handball
uae - ksa
3 - 7

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uae - ksa
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nobody reads this stuff >(

oh well

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overview :

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China gold as Hong Kongers sneak bronze

China's quartet of Xu Yanwei, Yang Yu, Wang Dan and Pang Jiaying left their rivals trailing at the Hamad Aquatic Centre to win the women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay in a time of 3:42.11.

Leading by a length after Xu's opening leg it was clear China would add the freestyle relay gold to the medley one they won on Saturday 2 December, but the question was who would win silver - Korea or Japan?

Kim Dan Eun gave Korea a narrow lead at the halfway point, but Kaori Yamada powered Japan into the lead on the third leg. However Haruka Ueda couldn't hold off Ryu Yoon Ji in the final metres as Korea touched second, 0.08 secs ahead of Japan.

That battle though proved academic as within minutes Korea were disqualified, Ryu's entry to the water on the final leg deemed too early, as highlighted by her negative reaction time of -0.04.

This elevated Japan's quartet of Norie Urabe, Maki Mita, Yamada and Ueda into 2nd place and Hong Kong, China into a surprise bronze medal position.

Hong Kong, China's quartet of Hannah Wilson, Tsai Hiu Wai Sherry, Lee Leong Kwai and Sze Hang Yu only realised their promotion when their fans screamed and pointed at the scoreboard as Korea's disqualification was shown.

China make it a double

China’s men made it a double, capturing the men’s table tennis team gold to go alongside the women’s success earlier.

Korea took the silver, but in truth they were a long way behind China in terms of quality.

Hao Wang, Ma Lin, Chen Qi all won their singles matches to give the Chinese a three-rubbers-to-love win.

Chinese Taipei and Hong Kong, China got bronze.

India’s women go goal crazy

India’s women’s hockey team began their tournament with a 7-0 thrashing of Chinese Taipei, captain Sunita Jyoti Kullu getting a hat-trick while Surinder Kaur bagged two.

The other two goals came from Saba Anjum and Subhadra Pradhan.

Elsewhere, Korea and Japan drew 2-2. Both teams had enjoyed huge wins on the opening day of the women’s tournament but this time they cancelled each other out.

Korea will be much the happier with the point because they came from 2-0 down after 28 minutes to snatch a point. Korea’s Jeong Jin Ok equalised after compatriot Lee Jin Hee had reduced arrears just before half-time.

Malaysia got the better of Hong Kong, China in the first match of Sunday 3 December. It was 1-1 at the break but Siti Rahmah Othman netted twice, once from a penalty corner, to give Malaysia their first win of the competition following their opening day 7-0 hammering at the hands of Japan.

Eur-Reiko

Reiko Nakamura retained her women’s 200m backstroke title with a dominant display at the Hamad Aquatic centre, with her rivals simply unable to live with the Japanese swimmer.

Nakamura turned just 0.04 seconds off world record pace at the first split and although she could not maintain this pace she eventually took gold by three body lengths in a time of 2:10.33.

Zhao Jing of China finished strongly from lane 2 on the final 50m to take silver, 1.21 seconds behind the winner, with Takami Igarashi claiming bronze in 2:12.55.

Fastest qualifier for the final, China’s 13 year-old Bai Anqi, missed out on a medal finishing 0.08 seconds behind Igarashi in 4th.

Historic gold for Polyakov

Vladislav Polyakov wrote his name into the history books as not only the first ever men's 50m breaststroke Asian Games champion, but also Kazakhstan's first swimming medallist at Doha 2006.

Polyakov went out strong from lane 4 and was never headed, taking gold in a time of 28.29 seconds from Japanese sensation Kosuke Kitajima - the defending 100m and 200m breaststroke champion - by nine hundredths of a second.

Out in lane 8 Wang Haibo of China, the slowest qualifier for the final, took bronze in 28.41 seconds, touching out Japanese national champion Hiromasa Sakimoto by just two hundredths of a second.

Polyakov’s victory gives Kazakhstan only their second gold medal in the pool, Alexei Hovrin having claimed the other in the men’s 50m freestyle at the Asian Games of 1994 in Hiroshima, Japan.

Zhang holds nerve for gold

Zhang Guozheng was successful with his final clean & jerk attempt to claim a dramatic gold in the men’s 69kg weightlifting final.

Zhang lifted 184kg on his third attempt to take his total to 336kg – 1kg better than Chinese compatriot Shi Zhiyong.

Shi had been on course for gold after leading following the snatch, but failed with his first clean & jerk attempt at 175kg to hand the initiative to Zhang, who prevailed to leave Shi to take silver with 335kg, with Kim Sun Bae of Korea winning bronze on a total of 307kg.

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Close calls Japan and India inch home

Syria nearly caused an upset as three of the day’s six round 2 men’s football matches finished in wins for Japan, India and China.

The Syrians, who defied Korea in the opening group F game, also came close to keeping out highly-fancied Japan, who dominated proceedings.

But in-form goalkeeper Mowssab Balhowss, who bravely flung himself around his penalty area to make several saves, couldn’t prevent Sota Hirayama’s 77th minute header from creeping over the line.

Japan, who overcame Pakistan in their opening group match, were denied on many more occasions by a determined Syrian defence, most remarkably when Adeb Barakat diverted a goalbound shot off the line. They are now almost certainly through to the quarterfinals.

Speaking after the game, Syrian coach Fajer Ebrahim was proud of his players. "We played very well, but we were not lucky.” Syrian captain Maher Al Asaid added: "It was a good game, Japan were fine on the field. We will come with good results in the future. We are a young team, with the average age under 19."

Al Asaid was also proud of the hundreds of Syrian fans who backed his team at Qatar Sports Club. "We are sorry to our supporters, they cheered us well. Surely we will give them better results next time."

Japan coach Yasuharu Sorimachi said: "It was a good fight. I am satisfied with the team's performance." But he admitted they were fortunate with their goal. "That was a lucky one but Sota Hirmayama’s powerful header made it possible.”

Midfielder Chikashi Masuda added: "Today's game was more difficult than the previous match against Pakistan. For the first 15 minutes our defence was not so good."

In group D India broke Maldivian hearts by scoring a last minute goal to deny them a precious point. India, who drew their opening game against Hong Kong, China took the lead through a 34th minute Irungbam Singh goal.

Maldives levelled four minutes later through Ashfaq Ali but India’s last-gasp goal came from Subhash Chakraborthy – a vital strike which could see them qualify for the quarterfinals.

China beat Malaysia 3-1 in group E thanks to a first-half goal by Zhou Haibin, and second half strikes from Gao Lin and Feng Xiaoting. Jaafar Mohamad Hardi replied for Malaysia, who have lost both their group games and cannot now make the quarterfinals. China, who beat Iraq in their opening game now stand an excellent chance of progressing in the tournament.

Looking forward to China’s next game against Oman, coach Ratomir Dujkovic said: "It will be difficult, but I hope that after this [performance] we can still qualify."

China captain Zheng Zhi added: "The result wasn't bad considering what happened in other matches. We don't have too many problems, but it's hard to predict what will happen."

Malaysian captain Zamani Norhafiz admitted, "It was very tough. China are a top side. They played well and used their flanks, but we're more concerned about our mistakes.”

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You should get payed for updating us :) I had no time to watch any matches so many thanks to you!

seeya tommorrow for more updates

You should get payed for updating us :) I had no time to watch any matches so many thanks to you!

thanks

qatar son can you post all the final scores of a day in one post so we can get it easier, I was looking for somthing and I had to go to doha2006 website to get it. :)

if you were looking forsomthing with no arabic contreys then shure i did not post it i only post arab nations like oman ,qatar ,bahrain ,lebanon,ksa ,uae ,etc

Mighty Mongolian mounts the podium

Nyamkhuu Damdinsuren is the name on everyone’s lips in Mongolia after the judoka claimed their first gold of the 15th Asian Games.

The 27 year-old became an instant household name in his home country as he defeated Kazakhstan’s Almas Atayev in a hard fought -81kg final. It was clear just how much each man wanted the prize but the Mongolian sent the blue and red flags waving in the crowd. A few Mongolian fans towards the back of the stand vented their joy as Damdinsuren was declared a champion.

He said: "I am very happy. This is my second medal in the Asian Games. I dedicate this gold medal to my family. They were behind me from the very beginning, so they deserve it."

Atayev accepted defeat graciously: "I have a very strong opponent, and he has very good skills. I need to perfect my skills to win the gold medal."

Japan’s Takashi Ono and Ramziddin Sayidov got the bronze, the latter getting a rare medal for Uzbekistan. They only have three bronze so far in the Games.

The other gold medal on offer in men’s judo on the second day of the grappling at the Qatar Sports Club Indoor Hall went to a Korean warrior.

Hwang Hee Tae took the -90kg gold with victory over Maxim Rakov of Kazakhstan in the final.

The surprise here was that Olympic silver medallist Hiroshi Izumi only managed to take a bronze as he was beaten by Rakov in his semifinal. The other bronze went to another man from Uzbekistan, Ramziddin Sayidov who came back from a first round loss to Hwang Hee Tae to claim a medal through the repechage.

Hwang with the gold dangling victoriously around his neck admitted he was surprised by his opponent in the final. "I did not expect that actually, because I thought I would be meeting with Izumi.

“In fact we met five times before, this time I studied him a lot during his matches, but anyhow he got defeated in the preliminary matches so it was easier for me to win the gold," he said with a shrug.

Japan did claim gold in the women’s -70kg event. Olympic Champion Masae Ueno saw off the challenge of Bae Eun Hye to take the gold back with her to Tokyo.

The bronze medallist from four years ago will celebrate with her friends there. "I want to present the medal to my colleagues, so they are the first people I want to show. Those are the people who were with me during the hard training and preparation for the Games,” she said after winning the title.

Bronze in the -70kg category went to Liu Shu Yun of Chinese Taipei and Qin Dongya of China.

China also claimed gold in women’s judo on the second day of the competition. Xu Yuhua defeated Kong Ja Young to win the gold there, bronze went to Ayumi Tanimoto, who was put out of gold contention by Kong Ja Young in the semifinal.

The other bronze went to Won Ok Im who was also a semifinal loser to the eventual champion Xu.

Like so many other Chinese her focus is now squarely on two years’ time. "I was well-prepared. From this day onward I am going to improve my technique and skills for the upcoming Olympic Games,” she said.

All judo events have two bronze medals.

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Like father, like daughter

Esther Cheah realised her dream by winning a gold medal at the Asian Games, just as her father and current Malaysian national coach Holloway Cheah had done in the men’s team of five event back in 1978.

The 20 year-old became the first Malaysian to win the tenpin bowling women’s singles with an Asian Games record of 1,444 for a six game series and an average of 240.7.

“I trained her very hard for it,” Holloway Cheah said after his daughter’s victory. “I leave everything with the Lord and I’m very proud for her. I knew that she could make it. It is the best Asian Games that I have attended in my life.”

Indonesia’s Putty Insavilla Armein had to settle for silver – the first ever medal for her country in women’s singles at the Asian Games – despite earlier breaking the eight-year old record with a total of 1,395.

However Armein refused to be downhearted after the competition, paying tribute to Cheah instead: “I was not disappointed, she did better today. The battle of the day is over. My best today was not good enough to get the gold.

“I didn’t know I had [set a then record], but I am feeling extremely happy that I did that. What I did today is my best performance in this event.”

Angkana Netrviseth claimed the bronze medal – an early present for her 17th birthday which falls on 24 December – with a total of 1,331, three pins better than that of Japanese bowler Kanako Ishimine.

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yesterdays matches :

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uae - ksa
0 - 3

india - lebanon
3 - 0

handball
korea - syria
38 - 36

qatar - india
48 - 19

uae - ksa
29 - 33

football
syria - japan
0 - 1

oman - iraq
0 - 2

basketball
jordan - syria
70 - 64

bahrain - qatar
56 - 97

todays basketball schedul is :

Women's Preliminary Group X Match 2
CHN - LIB 09:00 Basketball Indoor Hall live

Men's Preliminary Group F Match 10
TPE - KAZ 15:00 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group F Match 11
LIB - JPN 17:15 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group F Match 12
UZB - CHN 19:30 Basketball Indoor Hall

Todays football schedul is :

Women's Preliminary Round Group A Match 5
THA - JPN 17:15 Al-Gharrafa Football Stadium

Women's Preliminary Round Group B Match 6
VIE - KOR 17:15 Al-Rayyan Football Stadium

Women's Preliminary Round Group A Match 7
JOR - CHN 19:45 Al-Gharrafa Football Stadium

Women's Preliminary Round Group B Match 8
TPE - PRK 19:45 Al-Rayyan Football Stadium

no arabs :(

Todays handball schedul is :

Men's Preliminary League Group B Match M07
CHN - HKG 10:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall Start LIVE

Men's Preliminary League Group A Match M08
IND - MAC 12:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group D Match M09
SYR - LIB 14:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group B Match M10
KUW - IRI 16:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group C Match M11
JPN - KSA 18:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group C Match M12
UAE - UZB 20:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

quick update

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91 - 28 tooot lebanon wat do you think your doing !!!!

Todays volleyball schedul is :

Women's Preliminary Pool B Match 9
THA - KAZ 10:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall LIVE

Women's Preliminary Pool B Match 10
TJK - MGL 12:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Pool B Match 17
HKG - MAC 14:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Pool B Match 18
THA - BRN 18:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Pool A Match 19
KSA - IND 20:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

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the game of basketball just ended china won :(

Gymnasts prepare for routine finals
Attention will be focused on the gymnastics arena on day 4 of the 15th Asian Games as the men’s and women’s artistic gymnastics individual all-around finals take place at ASPIRE Hall 2, with China’s veteran and 2006 world champion Yeng Wei the main attraction in the men’s competition.

Yang will face stiff competition from Japan’s 2006 world championship silver medallist Hiroyuki Tomita as both gymnasts begin their rotation with floor exercises. In the women’s final, China’s 2004 Olympic bronze medallist and reigning Asian Games champion Zhang Nan will be hoping to repeat her success from Busan four years ago.

Action also continues in the swimming pool for the third day with early heats leading to finals in the women’s 50m backstroke, men’s 50m freestyle, women’s 400m freestyle, men’s 100m breaststroke, women’s 200m butterfly, men’s 200m backstroke and men’s 4x200m freestyle relay.

Meanwhile three new events start today with play on the green baize getting its big break at Al-Sadd Multi-Purpose Hall as eight days of cue sports action begins. Play gets under way from 10:00 with the men’s snooker doubles and will continue with billiards later in the day.

Dressage action begins with the individual first qualifier and final event at the Equestrian Dressage Arena while tennis action is sure to serve up a treat as the men’s team competition begins at 10:00, followed by the women’s team event at 16:00 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.

At the same venue, the mixed doubles soft tennis competition comes to a conclusion while at the Al-Arabi Indoor Hall there is a full day of table tennis action scheduled with a number of men’s and women’s singles, doubles and mixed doubles matches.

Medals will be won on the second day of tenpin bowling action at the Qatar Bowling Centre as the women’s and men’s singles competition takes place throughout the day, while champions will also be crowned in judo’s 66kg and 73kg categories for men, and 52kg and 57kg categories for women.

Lusail Shooting Range hosts a number of events throughout the morning, concluding with the men’s 50m rifle prone final, while weightlifters will be lifting for more medals at the Al-Dana Banquet Hall. Meanwhile, Doha’s Corniche will play host to the women’s cycling road race as endurance takes over from sheer power.

Badminton enters the semifinals stage in the team competition as Singapore, Japan, China and Korea battle for a final place in the women’s competition, while China, Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia compete in the men’s event.

Boxing, volleyball, handball, sepaktakraw and kabaddi continue their round robin and knock-out action as competition steps up a gear, while chess holds its first finals in the men’s and women’s rapid Swiss competition.

Outdoors, baseball round robin matches continue with Chinese Taipei taking on China and Thailand slugging it out against Korea. The men’s hockey competition gets under way with China and Oman starting a day of matches at 10:00. Elsewhere, at Sports City, the men’s and women’s beach volleyball competition continues while women’s footballers take to the field once again in a further series of group games later in the day.

i will be back for more updates on 17:15 for a game of basket ball lebanon vs japan and i will also be back for the game of hand ball 14:00 syria vs lebanon and the rest of them until a final game of volleyball on 20:00 ksa vs india :) ;)

1 CHN 47 WoW thouse chanees people :S
2 JPN 27
3 KOR 26
4 KAZ 7
5 KUW 3
TOTAL MEDALS :) TOP 5 THAT IS ;)

Indonesian record breaker strikes bowling gold

Ryan Leonard Lalisang recorded Indonesia’s first gold medal of the 15th Asian Games and his country’s first ever Asian Games gold medal in the men’s singles bowling competition at the Qatar Bowling Centre late last night, Sunday 3 December.

The 26 year-old, making his Asian Games debut, headed a huge field of 114 bowlers by scoring consistently high throughout the six games, most notably when recording a new Asian Games record for 1 game with a near perfect score of 299 in game 2, which went towards a six game total of 1442 – another Games record.

After beginning sluggishly in game 1 with a score of 200, Lalisang found the perfect range with his remarkable score in game 2, and added to his advantage with scores of 245 and 259 in games 3 and 4.

UAE’s 2005 West Asian Games silver medallist Mahmood Ahmed Al Attar kept in close contact with the Indonesian, but fell away in the last two games with scores of 221 and 200 to finish with a bronze medal, after Korea’s 19 year-old Choi Bok Eum stormed through with a late surge to record scores of 248 and 258 in games 5 and 6.

Lalisang’s record total of 1442 worked out at an average score of 240.3 per game, while Choi finished with 1419 (236.5 average) and Al Attar 1401 (233.5) average. The Indonesian’s records surpassed Filipino Virgilio Sablan’s score of 290 for one game and Thailand’s Kritchawat Jampakao six game record score of 1408 – both set in Bangkok 1998.

Still somewhat in shock after his victory, Lalisang said: “Even though I am not sure yet about winning the gold I am very satisfied and very happy since this is my first time competing in the Asian Games.

“During the first game I changed my line and angle for the last four shots and my coach instructed me to move more to the right to bowl. I found a good condition during the second game and that is why I got the highest score. I am really glad and hopeful that nobody can beat that.”

Silver medallist Choi was delighted with his performance and remarked: “It was a blessing from God, first of all. The second reason was that my coaches have made me feel more confident and relaxed on the lanes. They have been telling me to be confident and not to lose my self-confidence.

“This is my first Asian Games and the biggest victory I have had so far. My second biggest thrill was winning a silver medal in trios in the 2006 world championships.”

Bowling continues on Monday 4 December with the men’s doubles competition, where some changes to the line-ups have been made. For Singapore, Carl Jan De Vries will now be teamed with Lim Guo Liang Lionel in a match starting at 09:00. Jason Yeong-Nathan will now bowl with Ng Qenn Shaun at 13:00.

Meanwhile, Indonesia’s men’s singles champion Lalisang will bowl with Rudy Goenawan at 13:00, while Hengki Hengki will now bowl with Haqi Rumandung at 09:00.

Swimmers prepare for night of drama

Day three of swimming at the Hamad Aquatic Centre produced some interesting displays in this morning’s heats with no single country dominating proceedings. Highlights of tonight’s six finals could see glory for Syria in the 50m freestyle sprint and an Asian Games double by Kosuke Kitajima in the 100m breaststroke.

Japan’s Mai Nakamura led the pace in the qualifying heats of the women’s 50m backstroke with a time of 28.94 – the only swimmer to break 29 seconds in the three heats.

There is little to choose between tonight’s finalists, however, as Nakumara will be pushed all the way by China’s duo Zhao Jing (29.18) – who already has a gold and silver medal from the Games so far – and Gao Chang (29.20). Compatriot and namesake Reiko Nakamura (29.49), who won gold in the 200m backstroke final on Sunday 3 December, will also be a main contender.

Despite seeing her team mate swim almost a second faster, Reiko Nakamura remained confident ahead of the final, however, and said: “I was far behind my personal best. I’m sure I will advance to the final. I’ve had a good preparation and I’m in better condition physically.”

In the men’s 50m freestyle, Rafd Zyad Almasri showed good form with a rapid qualifying time of 22.96. The Syrian, ranked 21st in the world over this distance, will be looking to win his country’s first swimming gold of this Asian Games, but will have to resist challenges from Japanese duo Makoto Ito (23.05) and Daisuke Hosokawa (23.23), and China’s Cai Li (23.16).

Japan’s Ito sits below Almasri in the official world rankings, but said after his heat: “I want to be the fastest man in Asia and I want to break 22.50 in the final. It’s just 50 metres so you never know. I will try to be the fastest, but I’m satisfied with my performance and time.”

Away from the short sprints, China look set to dominate the women’s 400m freestyle competition with Yang Jieqiao and Zhu Wenrui leading early qualifying with times of 4:15.29 and 4:16.59 respectively.

Zhu was clearly not happy with her qualifying time, however, and aims to push harder tonight. She said: “I’m not satisfied with my performance this morning. My biggest rival is myself. Success to me means breaking through what I can do myself. I will try to do my best in the final.”

Japan’s Haruka Ueda (4:18.68), who already has a silver medal from the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, will have a chance for another podium finish, as will Korea’s Lee Ji Eun (4:19.64) and Chinese Taipei’s Yang Chin Kuei (4:21.56).

After his silver medal in the men’s 50m breaststroke, Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima will be looking for gold in the 100m. The reigning Olympic and Asian Games champion at this distance dominated qualifying in 1:01.48, followed by compatriot Makoto Yamashita (1:02.08). Vladislav Polyakov of Kazakhstan, who won gold in the 50m race, qualified in 1:03.20, but will have to raise a gear to secure a unique second gold medal.

Korean pair Choi Hye Ra (2:11.09) and Kown You Ri (2:11.75) set the fastest times in the women’s 200m breaststroke and will go into tonight’s final full of confidence for winning medals. They will be pushed, however by Japan’s reigning Asian Games champion at this distance, Yuko Nakanishi (2:12.26) and Yurie Yano (2:12.55), as well as China’s Jiao Liuyang (2:11.54).

In the men’s 200m backstroke, Japan will be looking for a strong showing in the final, as Busan 2002 silver medallist Takashi Nakano (2:01.42) aims to go one better this time round. Nakano’s compatriot Ryosuke Irie (2:02.27) will also be hoping to attend the medal ceremony, as will China’s Ouyang Kunpeng (2:04.09).

Nakano remained upbeat about his chances this evening, “I feel good. If I can maintain my energy until the end of the race I will definitely win gold. That’s the reason I’m here. I want to be confident of reaching the final.”

After convincing swims in the heats of the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay, China and Japan look set to battle for gold and silver after Zhang Enjian, Chen Zou, Yu Chenglong and Wu Peng posted a time of 7:24.05 for China, while the Japanese team Yuji Sakurai, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Kenichi Doki and Takeshi Matsuda timed 7:26.01.

The Korean quartet (7:35.62) looks the best for bronze after this morning’s display, while Singapore (7:42.05) and Uzbekistan (7:44.88) could provide a surprise package.

Japan break 24-year losing streak

Japan will take part in the women’s team badminton final for only the second time in Asian Games history after their impressive 3–0 victory over Singapore in Monday’s semifinal.

It marked a superb turnaround for the Japanese, after being thrashed 5–0 by Malaysia in their opening match of the tournament. But they responded superbly, first upsetting Korea 3–2, then beating Hong Kong, China 5–0 and finally logging a 4–1 defeat of Chinese Taipei to earn their place in the last four.

Despite their defeat, Singapore have the huge consolation of winning bronze as losing semifinalists, picking up their first ever Asian Games medal for women's team badminton.

Japan made a good start in the match, Kaori Mori beating Singapore's Li Li 21-19, 21-11 in the opening singles tie. For Mori, ranked 14 in the world, it was her first victory at Doha 2006 and could not have come at a better time.

Afterwards, she said: "I've been able to make a contribution for my team, so I'm very happy." Li commented: "I lost because she played better than me. She is very strong and fast."

The Japanese continued their winning form in the doubles with Kumiko Ogura and Reiko Shiota beating Singapore's Jiang Yanmei and Li Yujia 23-21, 21-14.

The first set was tight with Ogura and Shoita only managing the win thanks to a lucky net cord break on set point - the shuttlecock hitting Japan's side of the net before bouncing over and landing on Singapore's side of the court for a 23-21 win.

Jiang and Li got off to a fast start in the second set and moved into a 5-0 lead, before the Japanese duo reeled them in to eventually take the second set 21-14. Afterwards, Shiota gave an insight into the superb spirit within the Japanese team. Commenting on her doubles partner, she said: "I have a lot of faith in her. I feel I can say anything to her. She is just like family."

It was then left to Eriko Hirose to send Japan into the gold medal match with a 21-14, 12-21, 21-18 win over Xing Aiyang in the second singles tie of the session. It was not all one-way traffic for Hirose, who had to work hard for her victory. Xing fought back from a set down to win the second and push her more experienced opponent all the way in the third.

Japan last reached the final at New Delhi 1982, where they were beaten by China. A rematch could be on the cards as China face Korea in the other semifinal, which begins at 13:00. The women’s team badminton final will take place at ASPIRE Hall 3 at 16:00 on Tuesday 5 December.

Basketball: China slam-dunk Lebanon
China enjoyed a comprehensive victory over Lebanon in the first women’s basketball match of the Asian Game Tournament. The group X fixture ended with China’s 106–30 point drubbing of the seriously outclassed Lebanese.

Reigning champions China were never under threat. There is an enormous gulf in world rankings between these two teams with China ranked 10th and Lebanon 64th. The more experienced Chinese raced into a 25–11l lead at the end of the first quarter.

China's Australian coach, Thomas Maher had the unusual luxury of being able to play all 12 of his players in the opening quarter, giving the Chinese reserves valuable on-court minutes in the lead-up to the finals, with 11 of the team's 12-woman roster getting on the scoreboard.

At half time the score was 44–16 and from then on the game appeared as merely a training run for the well-drilled Chinese team who eventually ran out winners by a massive 76 points.

Lebanon were soundly beaten on the boards throughout the match, 61-23, as the bigger bodies of the Chinese provided a significant advantage. Chinese centre Chen Nan was dominant, collecting nine rebounds and scoring 11 points.

Veteran guard and team captain Miao Lijie put on a fine display of three-point shooting as she hit five shots from long range to finish with 19 points, making her the team's joint leading scorer on 19 points with Zhang Xiaoni.

For the losing side, 35-year-old captain Emma Eskidjian tried hard all game and was her team's leading scorer with 10 points, while guard Nour Schoucair appeared to be one of the only Lebanese players not to be overawed by the occasion and scored six points.

After the game, Chinese captain "This is a game that we should win because the opposition was not very strong. Not only on the scoring, but there were also many other details we needed to pay attention to. We got a lot of experience from the game," said Miao Lijie, Chinese captain.

"I tell our players that our focus is on the three-point shot and a strong shooting sense is very important for every player,” he said, adding “Many of our players are attending the Asian Games for the first time and they don't know their opponents very well. But we will pay attention to all of our opponents, not just Korea and Chinese Taipei."

Lebanon play Japan on Wednesday, 6 December, while China face Japan on Friday, 8 December to complete the three games in group X. China's main rival for the gold medal are Korea and they will play Chinese Taipei (TPE) on Tuesday, 5 December.

Korea and Chinese Taipei are the 1st and 3rd ranked countries in the Doha 2006 competition. Korea is just ahead of China with an international ranking of nine, while Chinese Taipei is 22nd. Even so, it will be a tough match for Korea. Earlier this year they lost to Chinese Taipei 69 to 57 in the East Asian Games in Macau.

Action heats up among table tennis top dogs

It was business as usual for the table tennis top dogs in the round of 32 women's doubles matches at Al-Arabi Indoor Hall. Hong Kong, China's Lau Sui Fei and Lin Ling (HKG), the No. 4 seeds, barely raised a sweat in beating Sri Lanka's Kalpani Herath and Deepika Rodrigo 11-3, 11-5, 11-5. The highly rated Japanese pair of A Fukuhara and Haruna Fukuoka made light of their task, beating India's Kasturi Chakraborty and Mousumi Paul, 11-9, 11-2, 11-6.

Few matches lasted the full five sets. The highlight tie was Kim Jong and Kim Mi Yong of DPR Korea against Japan's Hiroko Fuji and Saki Kanazawa. Mixing fast and furious play with deep baseline rallies, each of their sets lasted longer than the total duration of most other matches. The Koreans prevailed 7-11, 12-10, 11-8, 11-13, 11-3.

Fujin was unhappy with her performance. “I am not satisfied with my play. I was a bit tense. It was good to win the first set, but in the second set it was tough for me to receive and it made me nervous,” she said after the game.

The only minor surprise was China's Chen Qing and Wang Nan easy win over Singapore's Tan Paey Fern and Zhang Xue Ling. A tighter match had been expected, but the Chinese had little trouble, coasting to a 11-9, 11-3, 9-11, 11-5 victory.

With the top three seeds having received byes, the round of 16 should be more competitive. Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia, ranked No 4 and No 7 in the world respectively for singles, Tie Ya Na and Zhang Rui, the bronze medallists at the 2005 Asian Championships and 2005 World Championships, and Kim Kyung Ah and Park Mi Young will play their first matches at 18:00 this evening, 4 December.

Shooting: Qatar win first medal :banana: horry :banana:

Qatar racked up their first medal of the 15th Asian Games, scoring a bronze in the women’s team, running target shooting competition. Qatari shooters Anisa Jama, Samsam Jama and Amal Mhamud took the bronze after a tightly contested air rifle competition. The trio are part of almost 50-strong Qatari shooting team. Kazakhstan took gold in the team event while Vietnam took silver.

In the individual event, China’s Xu Xuan, demonstrating a remarkable consistency, won an easy gold medal in the women’s 10m running target, coming out first in both the slow and the fast running disciplines. But she was the solitary Chinese shooter taking part and her win was not enough to bring China team success.

Xuan won with an very impressive 194 in the running target slow, and an amazing 192 in the fast. The next best fast shooter, Natalya Gurova of Kazakhstan, reached 192 in the slow target but only 180 in the fast.

sorry for not up dating fast heres the match i missed :

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syria - lebanon
37 - 28 :)

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kuwait - iran
13 - 10 ;)

small rest

China crush Korea for final place

China swept through to the final of the women’s badminton with another commanding performance at ASPIRE Hall 3 on Monday. They swept aside Korea 3–0 in their semifinal clash without conceding a single game.

Indeed since Zhang Ning lost her opening game to Mew Choo Wong of Malaysia before prevailing 2–1 in their 5–0 victory in the opening match, no Chinese women’s player has lost a game in the competition.

They also recorded a 5–0 drubbing of Indonesia in the group stages, with every match finishing 2–0. After Olympic champion Zhang beat Lee Yun Hwa 21–14, 21–7 in the tie’s opening match, Korea never looked like winning.

Gao Ling and Huang Sui then eased aside Lee Kyung Won and Hwang Yu Mi 21–11, 21–8. World champion Xie Xingfang then showed little mercy as she finished the job with a 21–7, 21–13 drubbing of Lee Hyun Jin.

China now move onto Tuesday’s final against Japan back at the same venue at 16:00. Japan defeated Singapore earlier in the day to win 3–0. World champions China will start as hot favourites though, as they go for their eighth gold in the history of women’s team badminton at the Asian Games.

Rapid chess: Men and women complete seventh round

China’s Grandmaster Bu Xiangzhi tops the table of the men’s Swiss rapid chess after the seventh round delivered his fifth consecutive win. With his win in the first game and his defeat against Bangladeshi International Master Enamul Hossain in the second game, Xiangzhi now has six match points, putting him on par with competition No 2 Murtas Kazhgaleyev of Kazakhstan, also at six points. Xiangzhi tops the table because he has faced tougher opponents so far.

Big surprise in the chess is that the tournament’s top seed, Sasikiran Krishnan of India, is already 1.5 points adrift of the leader after losing his second game of tournament today, this time against against Utut Adianto Wahjuwidajat of Indonesia, who is seeded No 8 in the competition. Sasikiran was the favourite, but his hopes of gold will recede if he loses another game.

Sasikiran recognises the threat. "I need to catch up in the remaining two rounds,” but rapid chess is not an easy game to win, he told reporters. ”We need a bit of everything: luck, persistence, calm and a cool mind. We must always watch what is in front of us and think accordingly. We hardly can think ahead about moves on the board as it is rapid chess."

In the women’s rapid chess, Grandmaster Humpy Koneru convincingly leads the table with six points, one full point ahead of next highest placed player Zhao Xue of China. Chen Zhu of Qatar, one of the country’s medal hopes, is now two points adrift of the leader with just four points.

After her win earlier in the day against Kharisma Sukandar of Indonesia, Humpy Koneru told reporters that she was happy with her performance. “"It was an easy game. Psychology played an important role and I won very comfortably. My ambition is to win two gold medals here.I feel great. Yeah. I am a Grandmaster and I am renamed 'Number 1'."

Kazakhstan and Mongolia get off the mark

Thailand’s impressive unbeaten start in pool B of the women’s volleyball tournament came to an end in the Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall after they went down 3–1 (25–22, 24–26, 25–21, 25–15) to a significantly taller Kazakhstan team who were searching for their first win in the competition.

It was a messy start for Southeast Asian champions Thailand as they found it hard to block out their opponent’s attacks, although their own strategy to attack down the middle saw them recover well. But Kazakhstan always had the upper hand and held out to take the first set by a slender margin.

In the second set, back-to-back aces from Thailand’s Malika Kanthong and Pleumjit Thinkaow gave their side much-needed confidence, while a powerful winning spike from captain Patcharee Saengmuang hit Olga Kubassevich flush in the face.

Defensive errors by Thailand allowed Kazakhzstan to level the score at 19–19, but the Thais revived their blocking – winning back two points late in the set – to finally level the match.

Visibly affected by three controversial calls by Bahraini referee Mohammad Zabeel, Kazakhzstan struggled for points early in the third set. But after using short play tactics at the net, Olga Nassedkina pounded a number of winning spikes down the middle to take the third set.

With Kazakh captain Yelena Pavlova leading the scoring with 22 points, her team produced a 10 point advantage in the fourth set and never lost their grip, to see out the match. A clearly delighted Pavlova said after the match: “I feel very good. The players played very well even though we lost in the second set. We changed the techniques and, because of the blocking, we won the match.”

In the day’s second match, Mongolia recorded their first win in three attempts against Tajikistan’s inexperienced team with a 3–0 victory (25–13, 25–18, 25–12) in 54 minutes. Tsetsegjargal Ganbold led the scoring for Mongolia with 13 points, 11 from winning spikes and two successful blocks.

Tajikistan’s young girls surprised the Mongolians in the first set by starting brightly with an unexpected drop shot and a number of powerful spikes., but their inexperience hampered their performance as the set wore on and Mongolia were able to take advantage.

A more intense second set ensued, with a much improved offence from Tajikistan testing Mongolia, who strengthened their defence to move further ahead, despite losing some points on service and reception.

Nigina Khorkasheva, the Tajikistan captain, sent across a service ace early in the third set, followed by winning spikes from Nargis Homidova to take an early 4-3 advantage. But when under pressure at the net, Tajikistan duly lost the advantage, with their spikes barely crossing; Mongolia sealed the match.

Mongolia’s assistant coach Bayarsaikhan Gotov was happy with his team’s performance and said: “We had good tactics and our team was very good. We are very strong and the other team was not strong.”

Thongsuk grabs elusive gold with record lift

Thailand’s Pawina Thongsuk claimed gold in the women’s 63kg weightlifting competition after recording a world record lift of 142kg in the clean and jerk with her third and final attempt at the Al-Dana Sports Club.

Thongsuk now holds all three world records in the 63kg division after exceeding Russia’s Svetlana Shimkova’s previous best of 141kg set earlier this year, and she can now add what had so far been an elusive Asian Games gold medal to her growing collection.

The 27 year-old Thai’s success marks only the second time in Asian Games history that China have failed to win gold in women’s weightlifting – the first time being at Busan 2002 when DPR Korea’s Ri Song Hui took home the gold in the 53kg event.

After the snatch discipline, Thongsuk was in joint second place with Malaysia’s Faw Thaw Yae with a lift of 100kg, while the current world champion from China, Ouyang Xiaofang, led with a lift of 115kg.

As the lifters entered the clean and jerk section, Faw could only manage a best lift of 127kg to take her total to 227 and a bronze medal. Ouyang opened her account by matching Thongsuk with a 132kg lift, but where the Thai successfully continued by hoisting 137kg over her head, Ouyang failed and finished in silver position with a score of 247.

Thongsuk, the 2005 63kg Asian and World champion, and reigning 75kg Olympic champion, was rested from this year’s world championship so she could prepare properly for the 15th Asian Games, and she did not disappoint. With the overall scores level, the Thai captivated the audience with her final lift and made history in the process.

Rashid, thanks for the wonderful updates, but can you please post the results of the game AFTER they finish since it is easier than minute by minute updates. I sometime get confused. LoL!

lol ok after each game but i still can post news from he web site cant i ?

can you call me qatarson plz

lol ok after each game but i still can post news from he web site cant i ?

Of course you can.

can you call me qatarson plz

Its OK, Qatarson! No problemo..

thank youand thanks again

Beach volleyball second round underway

China, Kazakhzstan and Indonesia all recorded wins as the second round of the men's tournament began at Sport City.

Wu Penggen and Xu Linyin of China had a smooth opening to their tournament with a 21–11, 21–14 win against Oman's Ibrahim Al Farsi and Yaqoob Al Maqbali.

The top seeds play Andy Ardiyansah and Koko Prasetyo Darkuncoro in the third round after the Indonesians had a win over Saeed Al Jamani and Ziad Benlouaer of Qatar.

The hosts, with good crowd support, put up a strong fight in the first set, but the Indonesian pair's big-game experience saw them on to victory in straight sets, 24–22, 21–15.

Fifth seeds Dmitriy Vorobvev and Alexey Sidorenko (KAZ) also made a convincing start with a 21-16-21-16 victory over Osama Isa Ali OMran and Qader Abdulla Ahmed Al Merza of Bahrain.

The Kazak team, who only recently started playing together, looked sharp in their first competitive match. Their opponents in the next round will be fourth seeds Zhou Shun and Li Jian of China who easily disposed of the Filipino pair of Parley Tupaz and Rhovyl Verayo 21-10, 21-14.

Afterwards, Verayo said: "I enjoyed the game very much since it was the first time I played against China. They are a very tough team. We had a lot of fun. They are much taller and high leapers and they are very good at blocking."

"The most important offence is defence. I now think I have mastered their style of blocking. I hope to use this in the next match as I am definitely going to copy their way of blocking."

The four remaining men's second round matches will be completed on Monday afternoon, starting from 15:00.

Shooting: second ever gold for Thai women

Thailand's women shooters have won gold in the 50m rifle prone team event, only the NOC's second women's shooting gold in Asian Games history. The first gold for the women shooters came in the 10m air rifle team event at Bangkok 1998, and this is the first time Thailand's's women have claimed a gold medal outside their own country. It is also the first time they have won gold in the women's 50 rifle prone team event

Most of Thailand’s 10 shooting golds come from the men, eight of them. They are the fourth NOC to win gold in the women's 50 rifle prone team event. The others are DPR Korea, Korea and Japan.

The successful team contained Thanyalak Chotpaibunsin with 591 points, Supamas Wankaew 590 and Paramaporn Ponglaokham 586. Chotpaibunsin's score was good enough to win her a silver medal in the individual event.

hand ball
kuwait - iran
31 - 22 :)

match finished

basketball

lebanon - japan
67 - 78 :(
game ended

Historic gold for Saudi brothers

Hassan Abdullah Al Alshaikh and Bader Adullah Al Alshaikh made history by winning Saudi Arabia’s first ever Asian Games gold medal in bowling with their victory in the men’s doubles.

The brothers posted a score of 2,821 – a new Asian Games record for a six games series – to take the gold medal with hosts Qatar and the United Arab Emirates sharing the silver with totals of 2,782.

This is the first time in any bowling event in Asian Games history that countries from West Asia have swept the podium.

Bowling is now the third sport that Saudi Arabia have won gold medals in at the Asian Games – the others being athletics with seven in 2002 and shooting back in the 1994 edition.

Hassan, the youngest of the brothers, was humbled by their victory, saying: “I can't describe my feeling, but I thank my God that I am getting this medal.

“I wish to raise the flag for my country. The road to raise that flag has been very, very difficult. Now I wish to compete at the same level in another event in this Asian Games."

Mixed doubles glory for Koreans

Kim Ji Eun and We Hyu Hwan claimed gold in the soft tennis mixed doubles after winning an all-Korean final against Kim Kyung Ryun and You Young Dong.

The first four games were shared but Kim Ji Eun and We Hyu Hwan won the next three games to seal a 5-2 victory.

Harumi Gyokusen and Tsuneo Takagawa defeated Japanese compatriots Shigeo Nakahori and Ayumi Ueshima 5-3 to win the bronze.

Swimmer Almasri wins Syria's first gold

The fastest man in the swimming pool at Doha 2006 is Rafd Zyad Almasri who claimed Syria's first gold medal of the Asian Games with a lightening fast performance in the men's 50m freestyle. He touched 1st in a time of 22.41.

Makoto Ito was 2nd for Japan and China captured bronze with Cai Li coming in 3rd.

Shooting: Dovgun defends Asian title

Kazakh Olga Dovgun successfully defended her Asian Games title when she won the women's 50m rifle prone at Lusail Shooting Complex. This is a non-Olympic event and winners were announced after the qualification round.

Dovgun is joint world record holder with 597 and was the strong favourite for this event. She scored 97 out of a possible 100 in the second and third series, but she scored maximum points (100) in the fourth and this helped her to clinch the gold with a score of 591. Dovgun is the first women to win two gold medals in this event and she also became the first female shooter from Kazakhstan to defend an Asian Games shooting gold medal.

Her husband and team mate, Vitaly Dovgun, was watching her performance just behind her shooting station throughout the final. Vitaly finished 15th in the men's 50m rifle qualification earlier in the session. His wife's gold medal made Kazakhstan the Asian Games' most successful NOC in this discipline.

Sensational 16-year-old Thai Thanyalak Chotpaibunsin won silver with the same score as Dovgun. The young star surprised the field and came from nowhere to take the medal.

Wang Chengyi of China sealed bronze with a score of 591. The top three finished with exactly the same score, but each medal was awarded based on a scoring system. As a tie-breaker, the better score in the last round was looked at until a winner was reached.

hand ball
ksa - japan
26 - 25 :)

Kitajima gets Asian Games gold again
Kosuke Kitajima piped fellow Japanese swimmer Makoto Yamashita to gold in the men’s 100m breaststroke in a thrilling final at the Hamad Aquatic Centre.
The Japanese team captain won in a time of 1:01.13. He now has two medals after claiming silver in the 50m breaststroke on Sunday 3 December.

Yamashita missed out on gold by 0.37 seconds. He trailed Kitajima, the Olympic champion who won double gold at Busan four years ago, at the 50m split and although he closed on his great rival, 24 year old Kitajima always had his nose in front.

Vladislav Polyakov, who claimed gold in the 50m breaststroke the previous day, finished in 3rd to get bronze for Kazakhstan.

Medals in total ( kuwait left the group :( )

1 CHINA 65
2 JAPAN 40
3 KOREA 34
4 KAZAHASTAN 14
5 THAILAND 8

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thiland - bahrain
1 - 3 :)

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Tough test in store for top Qatari

Olympic bantamweight silver medallist Worapoj Petchkoom of Thailand stopped Sou Weng Chon of Macau, China, in the third round to set up an eagerly awaited bout against Qatari favourite Adel Chakeri.

Petchkoom was never troubled by Sou, scoring at will and steering well clear of his opponent’s attacks. “My opponent was an inexperienced boxer and he was afraid to punch me because if he punched me I would punch him back faster,” said the confident 25 year-old.

Chakeri notched an impressive 27-9 win over Afhganistan’s Rohullah Mustafa but Petchkoom will be a step up in class. “I want to win for my country and family. I am so eager to get the gold for Qatar,” he revealed. “He [Mustafa] was stronger than me but I was able to overcome the reach advantage of my opponent by using hit and run tactics.”

Joan Tipon of Philippines also remains a contender after defeating Lui Shih Jung of Chinese Taipei 23-10 in his first bout. Philippines coach Pat Gasbi believes it will be a competitive, exciting division, with his man well in the mix for the title. “We consider all boxers in the bantamweight division capable of grabbing gold.”

Olympic light-flyweight bronze medallist Zou Shiming remains China’s best hope of boxing gold after grafting to a 16-10 victory against Sherali Dostiev of Tajikistan.

The 25 year-old began to dictate after both fighters were penalised two points after a first round in which neither boxer landed a scoring shot.

Zou said: “I beat him before in the semifinals of the World Championships. I knew I couldn’t give him a chance as he wouldn’t give me a chance. We were both nervous about attacking at the start.

“The standard of Asian boxing is actually quite high. Asian boxing has changed. I have been boxing in Europe quite a bit recently and need to familiarise myself with changes in Asian boxing styles. Apart from Cuba and Russia there aren’t many other really strong countries outside of Asia.”

Two more gold medal hopes from Philippines began their quest for glory in style. Godfrey Castro stopped Zamzai Azizi Mohamad of Malaysia in the third round to underline his status as one of the light flyweight favourites while Anthony Marcial stopped Iraq’s Suraka Mahdi in the second round of their featherweight bout.

In the day’s closest bout, another Filipino Genebert Basadre fought back to win the last round 7-3 and edge out Pakistan’s Asghar Ali Shah 20-19 in the lightweight division.

Basadre admitted he had been lucky to claim such a narrow win and said: “I think I had all the breaks. He was really good and tough and I believe we are both exhausted.”

Shah meanwhile said: “I was leading in all the rounds. I threw so many punches but nobody gave me points.”

Meanwhile Uzbekistan's Bekzod Khidirov claimed a surprise 30-22 win over Pichai Sayota of Thailand, admitting afterwards: "I didn't expect to win against today's opponent. Now I expect a medal."

Li powers to dominant gold

Li Hongli lived up to his billing as the overwhelming favourite by winning gold in the men’s 77kg class at the Al-Dana Club to give China their eighth of a possible nine titles contested so far at the 15th Asian Games.

The four-time snatch world champion was in a class of his own, lifting 165kg in the snatch and 196kg in the clean & jerk for a combined total of 361kg to take gold by the considerable margin of 20kg from Lee Jeong Jae of Korea.

Lee and Iraq’s Harem Ali both ended with totals of 341kg – the Korean having lifted 5kg more in the clean & jerk to cancel out the 5kg advantage Ali had after the snatch – but it was the former who took the silver with his lighter bodyweight.

Ali, who is only 0.11kg heavier than Lee, won the bronze medal to deny Nader Sufyan Abbas of Qatar a place on the podium before his adoring fans by the smallest of margins – 1kg.

The Chinese way

China, the most successful medal-winning Asian Games country or region, has sent a strong squad to Doha as it gears up to becoming the world’s No 1 sporting nation.

With 1.3 billion people, China has the biggest population of any country in the world and will host the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008.

Only the United States scooped more medals than the 32 gold, 17 silver and 14 bronze China achieved at the Athens Olympics in 2004. On home soil, China hopes to become the top Olympic country and dominance at the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 would serve as ideal preparation.

China has good form. It has been the No 1 country at the last six Asian Games – a run stretching back some 24 years – and will look to match or surpass the haul of 150 gold, 84 silver and 74 bronze medals it achieved in Busan, Korea, four years ago.

Although Japan has won more Asian Games medals overall – 2,188 compared to China’s 1,799 – China has won more gold (819 to Japan’s 788) so is ranked top of the all-time Asian Games medal table and has won more medals in 14 of the 39 sports being contested in Doha.

“The Asian Games is the last large-scale multi-sport event before the Beijing Olympics and it is important that athletes and coaches gain experience before the 2008 Games,” Duan Shijie, China’s deputy sports minister and vice-president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), told a press conference to announce the 647 Chinese competitors selected for Doha 2006.

The squad of 341 male and 306 female athletes will compete in 37 of the 39 sports taking place – the exceptions being karate and kabaddi – and is a blend of youth and experience.

It includes 167 athletes who took part in the Athens Olympics in 2004 and 176 who contested at the 14th Asian Games in Busan in 2002.


Star names head to Doha

We hope these Games can put our younger players to the test and give them a taste of what it will be like during the Olympics
World record 110m men’s hurdler Liu Xiang heads the list of established star competing in Doha, which also includes Olympic and World champion women’s weightlifter Liu Chunhong, table tennis champion Ma Lin and Wimbledon women's doubles tennis title holders, Yan Zi and Zheng Jie.

China’s 14-strong diving team is spearheaded by three Olympic champions in Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia and Li Ting, while most members of China’s recent record-breaking gymnastics team, fresh from their triumph of seizing eight of the 14 gold medals at stake at October’s World Championship in Denmark, will also compete in Doha.

The shooting squad, nicknamed the ‘dream team’ after they bagged 27 of the 42 gold medals on offer in Busan, includes Olympic rifle champion Zhu Qinan, defending Asian Games champion Li Jie and World Cup final runner-up Liu Tianyou.

However many of China’s top athletes are rested. Women’s Olympic 10,000m champion Xing Huina and Athens badminton gold medallist Zhang Jun are left out. National Basketball Association (NBA) star centre Yao Ming is also missing from China’s men’s basketball team – although Yi Jianlin, who enters the NBA draft next year, is gracing the courts for his country.

Women’s 100m Olympic breaststroke champion Luo Xuejuan is absent from China’s aquatics squad, whose all-conquering diving team will be without men’s 10m platform reigning Olympic gold medallist Tian Liang. Double women’s Olympic champion Guo Jingjing – ‘the diving diva’ who is attending her third Asian Games – is competing in just one event in Doha.

However more than 400 members of China’s team have no experience of major international competition.

For instance, the 40-strong shooting squad contains 22 debutants. Table tennis youngsters Hao Shuai and Chen Qing replace world men’s and women’s champions, Wang Liqin and Zhang Yining.

todays basketball schedul

Women's Preliminary Group Y Match 4 KOR - TPE 09:00 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group E Match 13 BRN - IRI 15:00 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group E Match 14 SYR - KOR 17:15 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group E Match 15 QAT - JOR 19:30 Basketball Indoor Hall

todays football schedul

Men's Round 2 Group C Match 37 THA - KUW 17:15 Al-Gharrafa Football

Men's Round 2 Group C Match 38 KGZ - PLE 17:15 Al-Rayyan Football

Men's Round 2 Group A Match 39 QAT - UAE 19:45 Al-Sadd Football

Men's Round 2 Group A Match 40 UZB - JOR 19:45 Al-Gharrafa Football

Men's Round 2 Group B Match 41 KOR - BRN 19:45 Al-Rayyan Football

Men's Round 2 Group B Match 42 VIE - BAN 19:45 Al-Arabi Football Stadium

lots of arabs :)

todays handball schedul

Men's Preliminary League Group D Match M13 KOR - LIB 10:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group A Match M14 BRN - IND 12:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group B Match M15 HKG - IRI 14:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group C Match M16 JPN - UAE 16:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group B Match M17 KUW - CHN 18:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary League Group A Match M18 QAT - MAC 20:00 Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall

todays volleyball schedul

Women's Preliminary Pool B Match 11 KAZ - TJK 10:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Women's Preliminary Pool B Match 12 JPN - THA 12:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Pool A Match 20 KUW - UAE 14:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Pool B Match 21 MAC - THA 18:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Pool B Match 22 TPE - HKG 20:00 Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall

hand ball

korea - lebnon
45 - 29 :(

game ended

bahrain vs india
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most important matches today :

handball
QAT - MAC 20:00

football
QAT - UAE 19:45

Gold for Singapore in Games record lot of records these days !!

Singapore’s Michelle Kwang Tien Mei and Valerie Teo Hui Ying won the women’s doubles gold medal in bowling with an Asian Games record for a six games series at Qatar Bowling Centre on Monday 4 December.

Teo Hui Ying lead the way with a better total and average than her partner as they finished with a total of 2,671, breaking the 12 year-old record of Japan’s Tomomi Shibata and Naoko Sekine at 2,607 to take gold by 51 pins.

Korean pair Choi Jin A and Kim Yeau Jin also bettered the previous record but had to settle for silver with Maki Nakano and Kanako Ishimine of Japan taking the bronze with a total of 2,598, as matches continued into the early hours of Tuesday. Ishimine had the best average of any bowler at 250.3, but Gang Hye Eun bowled the only perfect 300 game in the competition and the first by a woman at the 15th Asian Games to date.

However Gang and partner Name Bo Ra finished fifth with a total of 2,568.

Malaysia’s Esther Cheah could not add the doubles crown to the singles gold medal she won on Sunday 3 December, the 20 year-old and partner Shalin Zulkifli posting 2,533 to finish down in eighth place.

Saudi Arabia edge out Japan in handball thriller

Saudi Arabia beat Japan 26-25 in a pulsating match on the second day of the men's handball tournament at Al-Gharrafa Indoor Hall.

Goalkeeper Manaf Al Saeed helped. He pulled off a tremendous save in the dying minutes, one of many in the match, and Saudi Arabia went straight up the other end to capitalise.

Two goals from Al Harbi, who scored 10 overall, and a clincher from Qusai Al Saeed secured the win for Saudi Arabia to leave them top of group C.

The top scorer spoke about the vocal Saudi fans after the match: “I want to thank them for coming. I hope they will take us to the final.”

But the coach said his team still had a long way to go. “Teams like Kuwait are stronger. Those matches will be even harder,” said Kaldarasch Erwin.

The game against Japan was tight and tense throughout, with no team ever having more than a three-goal lead after Bandar Al Harbi opened the scoring for Saudi Arabia after 43 seconds.

Kenji Toyoda got into the groove when he scored a tremendous acrobatic goal early on, but he only managed two more thereafter.

An 11-11 half time score summed up the close affair and the game continued to sway back and forth in the second half.

Abdullah Al Dossari and Bandar Al Harbi both received two-minute suspensions early in the second period, but Saudi Arabia still managed to score and kept their noses in front after that.

In the other match in group C United Arab Emirates walloped Uzbekistan 46-27, the UAE having lost to Saudi Arabia in their first match.

Kuwait beat IR Iran 31-22 in their first match of the tournament, meanwhile China beat Hong Kong, China 30-23 in the same group. Kuwait, IR Iran and China all have one win but China and IR Iran have played twice.

There was a single match in group A, with Naya Chandra Singh Rungbam scoring a dozen times to help India demolish Macau, China 31-14.

Syria sneaked past Lebanon 37-28 making up for their opening day defeat in group D.

Bahrain spike Thailand to remain unbeaten

Bahrain maintained their 100 percent record in the second round of the men’s volleyball competition at Al-Rayyan Indoor Hall, but only after recovering from the loss of the first set to beat Thailand 23-25, 29-27, 25-20, 25-17.

Thailand had received a bye directly into pool B, unlike Bahrain who had to qualify through the preliminaries, and took the opening set after a quick spike by captain Supachai Jit Jumroom and two Bahraini service errors.

However Bahrain, who had beaten Hong Kong, China 3-0 on Saturday, fought back and despite Jit Jumroom’s attempts to force the match into a final set it was not to be an opening victory for Thailand. In the other pool B match, Hong Kong, China recovered from that loss to Bahrain to beat Macau, China 25-23, 25-18, 25-19. The first set was littered with errors by players receiving serves, but some powerful blocking by Hui Pui Tak was key for Hong Kong, China.

Macau, China tried to respond in the second set, but they lost their composure and Hong Kong, China held firm and then led throughout the third set, capitalising on some weak positioning, to wrap up the straight sets victory.

India, the other team given direct entry to this stage, also suffered a 3-1 defeat to Saudi Arabia in pool A. The 25-21, 25-22, 23-25, 25-24 victory by the Saudis was their second of the round, following a 3-2 defeat of Kuwait on Saturday.

Ahmed A Al Bakhet was the standout player for Saudi Arabia, top scoring with 22 points in a match that lasted 1 hour 43 minutes. Srinkanth Pakalapati scored 14 points for India in the defeat.

Saudi Arabia trainer Saleh Al Kaseim praised Al Bakhet afterwards.

"Ahmed A Al Bakhet played very well; he played defence, blocked, made points and attacks. Abdullah S Al Bahli also made many points. All the players played very well today and this was their best game,” he said.

“The win was very important because there will be only one team in our group who will advance to the next round.”

Xu claims 50m pistol gold
World Cup champion Xu Kun of China, who qualified in top spot, has struck gold by winning the men's 50m air pistol final at Lusail Shooting Complex on Tuesday 5 December.

The in-form shooter fired the best final round to win with a score of 663.8 - more than three points ahead of silver medallist, Rashid Yunusmetov of Kazakhstan, who claimed his second Asian Games medal. He took bronze in Busan four years ago in the 10m air pistol team event.

DPR Korea’s Kim Jong Su claimed bronze, almost two points behind Yunusmetov with a score of 658.7.

China’s Tan Zongliang missed out on a third medal of the Games by finishing fifth after losing a fourth-place shoot off against Japan’s Susumu Kobayashi.

Sailing in the Bay

Sailing had to wait a long time to make its Asian Games debut. Unlike the modern Olympics when it was in from the very first event – though then called yachting to reflect the affluent nature of the pastime in those days – it wasn’t until 1970 that it made its first appearance at the 6th Asian Games Bangkok; sailing will now have been contested at nine Games.

But in today’s world, sailing sport is a fact of global life and many Asian countries, thanks to their abundance of coastline, warm seas and cooperative winds, have highly competitive on-water athletes.

Modern sailing is concentrated in smaller boats, mainly lightweight dinghies or sailboards with one or two athletes aboard, much more affordable and easier to campaign than the big, heavy keelboats of the past.

Let nobody kid you that sailing is a sedentary sport. Analysis at the Athens Olympics showed that Ben Ainslie, British gold medallist in the Finn dinghy (not sailed at Doha 2006), had the best all-round fitness of any member of the British Olympic squad and every sailor putting out from the Doha Sailing Club will be wanting to be in similar condition.

Today’s sailing at the 15th Asian Games reflects the highly competitive nature of all sport. Many competitors have been sailing all over the world to maintain that competitive edge. Fourteen classes will race from the Doha Sailing Club – a beautifully refurbished facility that usually hosts a strong local sailing community – in a 12-race programme.

Men will compete in six male-only races while women will compete in four female-only races. The two genders will compete together in four open classes. The catamaran Hobie 16 open class is being contested at the Asian Games for the first time.

China are the most successful National Olympic Committee (NOC) in Asian Games sailing history with 16 gold medals to date. Korea have won 15 gold medals at the Asian Games, but both NOCs face a challenge from their south-eastern neighbour Singapore with its solid performance on the Asian circuit in recent months.

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Who's in form?

In the open Laser Radial class, world champion and former Asian Games Optimist gold medallist Xu Lijia is one of China's best hopes for gold. The only female in this open class, Xu is well known on the international circuit and enters the Asian Games with impressive credentials. She won the World Championships in Los Angeles in July this year, took silver at the Asian Championships in Doha in March and finished third at the Semaine Olympic Francoise in Hyeres, France, in April. Though she wasn’t as good in the Olympic qualifier on the waters of the 2008 Olympic sailing site at Quingdao, posting only a ninth place and being beaten by Chinese compatriot Xiaoying Shen.

In the men's 470 class, defending gold medallists Korea are in form after picking up gold at the Asian Championships in March. Helmsman Kim Daeyoung and his partner Jung Sungahn won gold at the previous two Asian Games in Busan 2002 and Bangkok in 1998.

Their main competition is the Chinese pair Deng Daokun and Wang Weidong who took silver at the Asian Championships in March.

In the women's 420 class, Singapore's Tan Sarah Wei Lin and Lim Tze Ting are hopefuls to win their first Asian Games medal in this class after their gold medal at the Asian Championships in March. Tan also won a bronze medal in the Optimist class at the 2002 Asian Games.

In the women's 470 class, further medal hopes for China rest on the team helmed by Wen Yimei and her crew member Yu Chunyan who are in top form after winning gold at the Asian Championships in March.

Myanmar and Korea look strong coming into the men's 420 class after great performances on the Asian circuit. Korea took silver at the Asian Championships this year while Myanmar placed second at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines in December 2005.

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Single handers

In the Laser standard, men’s singlehanded class, the top contenders have been sailing and training across the world. Fancied for a medal, newly qualified Doctor Kevin Lim from Malaysia has a coach in Australia and has been sailing in Europe and the United Kingdom where he will take a post in the medical world as soon as the Games are over. Among his main competition will be Hokon Kim from Korea as these two have been fighting it out for top position for some time. So far Kim has beaten Lim for gold at two consecutive Games, but Lim’s form this year has been better and his training against the best in the world must pay dividends.

Another notable Korean is Bang Kyungjae, competing in the open Laser 4.7 class. Bang is aiming for his first Asian Games medal after winning silver in the Asian Championships in Doha in March. But he faces strong competition from Singapore's rising star Cheng Xinru who won the Laser 4.7 World and European Championships in Hourtin, France, in July and finished sixth at the Laser Radial World Championships in Los Angeles, United States in July.

In the boys’ Optimist class, 15 year-old Lee Sean Teik Ren is another of Singapore's strong contenders. Lee won gold at the Asian Championships in March and silver at the SEA Games in December 2005.

In the girls’ Optimist class, rivals Rufina Hong Mui Tan from Malaysia and Griselda Khng from Singapore will resume a long-running again battle for gold as they have over the past Asian cycle. At the SEA Games in December 2005, Khng took gold to Tan's silver, but at the Asian Championships in March it was gold for Tan and silver for Khng. Without her rival in attendance, Khng won the Asian Optimist Championships in Taipei in July. The girl’s Optimist also is the class where Alaa Shoudhy from Qatar sails; Alaa is just 10 years of age, one of the youngest competitors in the Games.

In the women's Mistral sailboard class, Chan Wai Kei is Hong Kong, China's chance for gold. Chan is sixth in the world windsurfing rankings. She won gold at the Asian Championships in March, silver at the Holland Regatta in Medemblik in May 2005 and finished fourth at the Semaine Olympique Francaise in Hyeres in April 2005.

In the newly introduced open Hobie 16 catamaran class, Thailand's Damrongsak Vongtim and Sakda Vongtim picked up gold at the Asian Championships in March and the SEA Games in December 2005 and are the ones to watch. Singapore's Hobie 16 duo finished second to Thailand in both events.

Another Thai medal hope is Arun Homrauen, competing in the Mistral light class. Homrauen won silver at the 2002 Asian Games in the same class, with a gold at the 1998 Asian Games and bronze at the 1994 Asian Games in the Mistral category.

In the Mistral heavy class, Indonesia's I Gusti Made Oka Sulaksana, who won gold at the 2002 Asian Games and silver at the Asian Championships in Doha in March, is in form. Sulaksana is one of only two Indonesian sailors at the Asian Games.

In the newly-introduced open match racing event, where two boats race one-on-one and winner takes all in a best of three series, India's four-member team look strong after taking gold at the Asian Championships in March. Teams will race in Beneteau First Class 7.5 keel boats with crews made up of four or five members with a maximum total weight of 350kg. As this is a totally new event at the Asian Games and there are few match racers in Asia, the medals could go anywhere.

Dining Guide for the guests and for the fourmers that came to qatar for the asian games : part one http://www.doha-2006.com/upload_iis/files/publications/diningguide/en/Dining%20Guide_English_1.pdf
part two http://www.doha-2006.com/upload_iis/files/publications/diningguide/en/Dining%20Guide_English_2.pdf
part three http://www.doha-2006.com/upload_iis/files/publications/diningguide/en/Dining%20Guide_English_3.pdf
part four and final http://www.doha-2006.com/upload_iis/files/publications/diningguide/en/Dining%20Guide_English_4.pdf

Participating countries and regions

http://www.doha-2006.com/gis/menuroot/countries/countries.aspx

Lionheart Ali pledges medal to his homeland

This is a present I can offer to all the Iraqi people, from north to south…I want to make the Iraqi people happy.”

These were the words of weightlifter Harem Ali, Iraq’s first medallist of Doha 2006, as he stood proudly clutching the bronze medal that he dedicated to the people of his war-torn homeland.

“With this medal we hope to dry the tears of the Iraqi people and make them smile after a lot of suffering,” added his coach, Kadir Basha. The pair’s pride in representing their nation and bringing some light into its dark days was a moment of true heart, all the more moving because of the circumstances Ali faced in training for the Asian Games.

“The circumstances of war makes things difficult for us, especially since our weightlifting facilities are located in Baghdad. We have been training in southern Iraq because it is safer,” said Basha. No adjective is sufficient to describe the achievement of an athlete taking an Asian Games medal under such conditions.

Kurdish Ali said he hoped the Iraqi people could be united in happiness after his medal win, saying: “First and foremost I am Iraqi, so I am very glad to participate in the Games, and I was inspired by the Opening Ceremony.

“I would like to send a message to all the people of Iraq that I am part of Iraq even though I am from Kurdistan. I want to make the Iraqi people happy – I hope I will with this result.”

He added of the support who cheered him on during his total lift of 341kg in the men’s 77kg class at Al-Dana Club on Monday 4 December: “The fans really inspired me.”

Ali lifted the same weight as silver-medallist Lee Jeong Jae of Korea in the event, but was placed third due to being just 0.11kg heavier than his rival.

But on a day that signified the culmination of months and years of struggle, nothing could take away from the glory of Harem Ali, the Iraqi lionheart.

handball

bahrain - india
47 - 30 ;)

Li cruises to cycling gold

Li Meifeng of China won the women’s individual time trial by nearly 1 minute from Kazakhstan’s Zulfiya Zabirova.

The 28 year-old covered the 23.8km in course in an average speed of 45.7km/hour to finish in 31 minutes 18 seconds.

Leading by nearly a half a minute at the first split, Li finished 52 seconds ahead of Zabriova and more than 2 minutes clear of Korea’s Lee Min Hye, who took bronze.

Japanese duo lead way into rowing finals

Japan and Thailand were both impressive in qualifying for the men’s lightweight double skulls final.

Takahiro Suda said: “We did much better than in our heat and our stroke rate was higher,” after he and Hideki Omoto won the second semifinal in 3:32.69.

Thailand’s Ruthtanaphol Theppibal and Anupong Thainjam were second and their German coach Joern Grosskopf said: “We concentrate on who we can beat now. We save our energy for the finals.”

Kazakhstan’s Ivan Kharitonov and Artyom Issupov eased to victory in the first men’s semifinal and India joined them in the final by finishing second, narrowly ahead of Hong Kong, China. However India’s Bijender Singh felt they were fortunate to escape punishment and progress following a racing incident, saying: "We came into the Hong Kong lane and our boat collided with Hong Kong. I feel very sad about it." Hong Kong, China, did make an official protest but this was rejected.

Su Hui and Chui Yonghui of China won the first semifinal of the men’s double sculls semifinal and will be joined in the final by Uzbekistan.

Korea’s Kim Dal Ho and Ham Jung Wook were similarly impressive in winning the semifinal, with India qualifying in second and Japan missing out in third.

China were the fastest of the four qualifiers for the women’s four final. They won the first semifinal in 3:40.06 well clear of Vietnam but Yu Chengxi vowed: “We will force ourselves to do better.”

Korea took the second semifinal in 3:44.70 with DPR Korea narrowly edging out Chinese Taipei for second place and a spot in the final.

Finals for all these events are on 6 December at West Bay Lagoon.

check out the current number of medals every body qatar has 5 medals

http://www.doha-2006.com/gis/menuroot/medals/InfoMedal.aspx

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volleyball

kuwait - uae
3 - 0 uae suckes in this game no offense but really they always lose
game ended any way

handball
japan - uae
live now japans winning :(

basketball
bahrain - iran
iran is winning :(

Song completes China's time-trial double

Song Baoqing made it a perfect day for China on the road as he won the men’s individual time trial at Al-Khor.

The 25 year-old covered the 44.8km course in 55 minutes 33 seconds to win handsomely and add to Li Meifang’s victory in the women’s individual time trial earlier in the day.

Song beat Evgeny Vakker of Kyrgyzstan by 43.48 seconds with Andrey Mizurov of Kazakhstan taking the bronze. Song was 10 seconds quicker than his rivals after the first split and steadily increased his advantage.

Wang Nan and Son to the double

China’s Wang Nan out-shot compatriot Hu Binyuan by two points to take the men’s double trap final.

Together, the pair also helped China to collect its 20th shooting gold medal of the Games.

Wang led Hu by a single shot after qualification and gained another point over his rival in the final shoot out to win by two points.

India’s Rajyavardhan Rathore top scored in the final to claim bronze and helped his team claim silver. Ronjan Sodhi, who came eighth, and Vikram Bhatnagar, 10th, were Rathore’s silver winning colleagues.

Chinese Taipei, whose shooters finished within a point of each other, finished 11th, 12th and 13th, to collect the team bronze medal.

Korea’s Son Hye Kyoung won the women’s double trap with a score of 105 – two points ahead of Thailand’s Janejira Srisongkram and four ahead third-placed fellow Korean Lee Bo Na.

Son and Lee’s performances helped Korea to the team gold medal with China taking silver and Thailand bronze.

Cao raises bar to new heights
World champion Cao Lei powered her way to victory in the women’s 75kg division, winning China’s ninth of the 10 gold medals awarded so far in weightlifting by a convincing margin of 22kg – the third biggest at these 15th Asian Games.

The dominance of Cao’s victory was not unexpected, the 22 year-old having entered the competition at the Al-Dana Club with a total of 265kg – some 15kg more than that of her nearest rival.

Cao made the weight of the bar seem inconsequential, lifting it with comparable ease in the snatch segment as she progressed from 110kg to 155kg and finally 120kg with her three attempts.

This gave her a 10kg lead over Mya Sanda Oo of Myanmar and Korean Kim Soon Hee going into the clean & jerk element – these the only other lifters in the class to make three clean attempts in the snatch.

Cao opened with 141kg in the clean & jerk, progressing to 147kg and finally 152kg to post a combined total of 272kg – bettering her 269kg in the World Championships and breaking Sun Ruiping’s Asian Games record of 270kg.

Asked why she attempted 152kg on her final lift, Cao replied: "Before I lifted my final attempt I said to my coach, 'I can lift whatever you ask me to lift'.

“It was really a challenge for me, but I am encouraged because my performance was much better than in the World Championships in October."

Oo claimed the silver medal – Myanmar’s third medal of the 15th Asian Games in women’s weightlifting – after lifting 140kg in the clean & jerk to post a total of 250kg to better the bronze medal she won four years ago in the 69kg class.

Kim had to settle for the bronze medal – just as she had on home soil in Busan in 2002 – after failing to lift 141kg on her final attempt. She finished with a total of 246kg and was clear of fourth-placed Sinta Darmariani of Indonesia on 230kg.

"I wanted to win a silver medal. I am a little disappointed, but I did my best,” Kim said afterwards.

The gold medal by Cao was China’s 101st in Asian Games weightlifting since they first contested the sport in the Tehran edition of 1974. China are the first to surpass a century with 65 of these medals having been gold.

Cao’s medal was China’s 12th overall at Doha 2006, still eight shy of their best ever haul at the Games of Hiroshima in 1994. However with five events still remaining, they could yet surpass that tally.

basketball

bahrain - iran
77 - 112 :(:(:(:(:(:(

Pitch effort sets record Nice another record

Re-laying the pitch at the Khalifa Stadium is no easy prospect, but after 32 hours of non-stop work by a dedicated team the task was completed at midnight – the fastest ever following the Opening Ceremony of an Olympic-style Games.

Tim Kirkman, the Manager of Sports Turf and Landscape at Aspire Zone, revealed the process of laying 8,000sqm of turf in strips of 10m x 1m began at 18:00 on Sunday 3 December and finished at midnight the next day.

This, he revealed, beats the 40 hours it took to re-lay the surface at Stadium Australia after the Opening Ceremony at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and 60 hours at the Athens Olympic Stadium four years later.

Whenever the time taken to relay the pitch is mentioned, it is simply for that process, not the hours of preparation that are needed before this can be done as this aspect varies from venue to venue and the disruptions or issues they face.

Kirkman and his team – Wayne Holmes, Yasser Al Mulla, Adrian Black and Jamie Hilyard – for example had to fill in the hole dug in the Stadium to allow the spectacular entrance of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Hamad Al-Thani on horseback.

Even so the achievement is remarkable and Kirkman was understandably proud, but very tired after personally working right through the 32-hour period to lay the grass which had been grown at the Doha Golf Club and transported to Aspire Zone.

“I feel tired, very tired as we haven’t had much sleep,” said Kirkman.

“I have a good team of people from all around the world and we had a number of local contractors involved on this project, providing services like transport along with specialised labour and equipment.”

“I have to give a special mention to Wayne and Yasser, who had never done this before. They both deserve a pat on the back,” Kirkman added, although not forgetting the contribution of all involved in the project.

“I would like to show some appreciation to Doha Asian Games Organising Committee [DAGOC] in assisting us, they were fantastic. They let us get on with it but were helping us throughout. The security and police on site at the Golf Club and Stadium were outstanding too.”

In a collaborative effort between DAGOC and Aspire Zone, the old surface at the Khalifa Stadium had been removed before December 2005, but the venue now has a surface fit for the best athletes of Asia to grace when it opens it doors for the athletics on Thursday 7 December.

Congrats!! Qatar is winning !!

we won

football
QATAR - uae
4 - 1 :):):):):):):):)

Maroon blast four to qualify in football yes !!!! :) i thout we wont make it :)

Qatar qualified for the quarterfinals of the football competition at the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 after they defeated United Arab Emirates 4–1 in a group A match played at Al-Sadd Stadium.

Goals from Sebastian Quintana (2), Abdulla Obaid Koni and Wesam Rizik Abdulmajid for the hosts were enough to see off their near neighbours who scored a second half consolation through Yousef Al Hammadi.

Uzbekistan defeated Jordan 3–1 to win Group A and, with Korea beating Bahrain 1–0 at Al-Rayyan Stadium, Qatar have finished today’s completed groups [A, B and C] as the best runner-up and are through to the last eight.

From the remaining group games to be played on Wednesday, only one team, the runner-up from group E, has the possibility of finishing above Qatar. This means Qatar have now secured at least the position as the second-best runner-up and will join group winners Uzbekistan, Korea and Thailand in the quarterfinals.

If Qatar does finish as the best runner-up, they will have to play group-mates Uzbekistan in the quarterfinals, the team they lost to in their group encounter 1–0.

Qatar started tonight's game knowing that they needed to win by more than two goals to better Kuwait's goal-difference (+4). And it was clear that the home team were going for the win from the beginning as their triple strikeforce, Hussain Yaser Abdulrahman, Khalfan Ibrahim Al Khalfan and Quintana all started the game together up front.

Quintana, the spearhead of the three-man attack was the first to hit the target in the eighth minute when he left two defenders behind after receiving a long ball and fired a low shot that went under goalkeeper Ali Housani’s body.

In the 19th minute, Qatar scored their second after a corner taken by Ali Nasser Saleh was headed home by captain Koni. The Maroon finally moved ahead of Kuwait on goals to increase their chances of grabbing one of the two best runners-up places when Quintana scored his third from the penalty spot after UAE’s Abdulla Mansoor fouled Saleh.

Qatar made it 4-0 in the 62nd minute when Abdulmajid scored from a free kick after the ball deflected off UAE's Ali Al Mazam’s shoulder. Although UAE pulled a goal back two minutes later through Al Hammadi’s header, it was too little too late

Two-goal hero Quintana was delighted with the result after the match and said, “It is great, especially scoring the first one. It was a crucial goal because we managed to get it very early in the game and that helped us grow in confidence and deal with the nerves that we all had. We were under pressure to win the game and to win by a good margin, so I thank God I could manage to get that early goal.

“I didn’t know what was happening at the other stadiums. We found out after the game and we were thrilled we were qualified – but even during the game I still thought we needed to score one more goal.”

Qatar coach Dzemaludin Musovic added, “It was difficult to prepare the players for this game. I asked them to play and focus on how to win, and to convince the crowd of our ability and forget other group results. They deserved this win.

“I told my players after the last match that they played against the strongest team in this tournament. They had a lot of scoring opportunities against them, but unfortunately they couldn’t score any, but today I am happy with the way they were able to score as many goals as possible.”

yesterday basketball totals

syria - korea
85 - 93 :(

QATAR - jordan
71 - 64 :) yay

yesterdays football totals

uzbakistan - jordan
3 - 1 :(

korea - bahrain
1 - 0 :(

yesterdays handball totals

kuwait - china
33 - 23 :)

QATAR - macau
52 - 12 yes !!!! ;)

Todays basketball schedul

Women's Preliminary Group X Match 6
LIB - JPN 09:00 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group F Match 16
UZB - JPN 15:00 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group F Match 17
KAZ - LIB 17:15 Basketball Indoor Hall

Men's Preliminary Group F Match 18
CHN - TPE 19:30 Basketball Indoor Hall

Todays football schedul

Men's Round 2 Group D Match 43
IRI - IND 17:15 Al-Sadd Football Stadium

Men's Round 2 Group D Match 44
HKG - MDV 17:15 Al-Gharrafa Football Stadium

Men's Round 2 Group F Match 45
SYR - PAK 17:15 Al-Arabi Football Stadium

Men's Round 2 Group F Match 46
JPN - PRK 17:15 Qatar Sports Club Stadium

Men's Round 2 Group E Match 47
MAS - IRQ 19:45 Al-Arabi Football Stadium

Men's Round 2 Group E Match 48
CHN - OMA 19:45 Qatar Sports Club Stadium

Lebanon will play today! Basketball! Cross fingers all! I will be there to cheer them up ;)

your from liban ?

lebanon lost todays FIRST match

lebanon - japan
67 - 99 :( so sad