Hangzhou 2022 have published a New Year poem by local poet Huang Yazhou, which aims to introduce the city to athletes from the continent.
Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group has signed an agreement to become an official partner of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.
Organisers of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) have signed sponsorship agreements with four companies.
Tokyo 2020 will be the focus at two Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) regional forums in Bangkok next month.
Asian Games showjumping gold medallist Ali Al Khorafi has told insidethegames how he will be motivated by what he described as a "black line" in Kuwait's sports history.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has unanimously decided to grant official recognition to DanceSport Asia Limited (DSA) as the official body representing the sport on the continent.
Doha has announced plans to bid for the 2030 Asian Games as it continues to try to extend influence worldwide by hosting major sports events.
Baseball softball, karate and sport climbing have been added to the 2022 Asian Games programme in Hangzhou, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has confirmed.
Organisers of Continental Games are currently storing doping samples for a maximum of four years, while the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) were found to have had “no intention” to keep samples beyond a three-month laboratory contract for the 2018 Asian Games.
Last month, Uzbekistan wrestler Artur Taymazov became the 60th athlete retrospectively disqualified from the London 2012 Olympic Games under the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) sample retesting programme.
Nigerian-born Bahraini Kemi Adekoya will be stripped of the two Asian Games gold medals she claimed in Jakarta last year after she was given a four-year doping ban by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU).
At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili was disqualified for weighing in at nearly four pounds above the limit for his weight class of his under-66 kilograms match against an Israeli opponent Ehud Vaks in the first round. It was claimed Miresmaeili had gone on an eating binge to protest the International Olympic Committee's recognition of the state of Israel. Iran does not recognise the state of Israel, and Miresmaeili's actions won praise from high-ranking Iranian officials. Mohammad Khatami, the country's President at the time, was quoted as saying Miresmaili's actions would be "recorded in the history of Iranian glories". He was later awarded $125,000 by the Government - the same amount given to Olympic gold medallists.
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