About to make a splash: diving enters the 15th Asian Games today (photo credit: Getty images) |
It's out with the old and in with the new as several Doha 2006 sports make their bow and others bid us goodbye for four more years as the action continues aplenty on Sunday 10 December. Diving and canoe kayak splash into the Games, with softball and squash stroking their way in, while it's head down for the first of two days of rugby sevens action. Of the concluding sports, bowling bows out with master men's and women's finals, there are several taekwondo finals and the spectacular sepaktakraw tournament comes to a close with the men's and women's regu semifinals and finals at the Al-Sadd Indoor Hall. The 10-up men enter track and field with the start of the men's decathlon the first of two gruelling days for some of the toughest guys in track and field. There are nine other finals being contested inside Khalifa Stadium: the women's long jump, 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles and 400m, while among the men's events there are finals of the pole vault, discus, 400m and 400m hurdles and the blue riband race, the 1500m in which hosts Qatar will have high hopes for duo Daham Najm Bashair and Abubaker Ali Kamal. Among the team sports, it is the last preliminary rounds of men's basketball and water polo, with women's volleyball reaching the semifinal stage. Diving competition starts at the Hamad Aquatic Centre with the synchronised men's 3m springboard and women's 10m platform finals. The canoe kayak action is at West Bay Lagoon with men's 1000m heats and semifinals. At ASPIRE Indoor Hall it is the final of rhythmic gymnastics women's all around final with Kazakhstan's Asian Champion, Aliya Yussupova, going for gold again having already won gold in the women's team event on Saturday 9 December. Track cycling also continues with men's individual pursuit and team sprint finals, while the men's boxing reaches the semifinal rounds. The semifinals of the men's and women's beach volleyball competition is also being held with all eyes likely to be on top Chinese women's duo, Xue Chen and Zhang Xi. Elsewhere it is day three of four of the men's and women's golf competition and in wrestling, the latest Greco-Roman rounds continue. (Credit: Doha 2006. Click here for further information.)
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