Channel NewsAsia
South Korean slugger Kang Jung-Ho hit a pair of two-run homers on Friday as his team knocked off reigning Asian Games champions Taiwan 9-3 in baseball's gold medal game. Taiwan starting pitcher Pan Wei-lun gave up six runs on nine hits in the early...
The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
The silver medal was confirmed for Bangladesh when they raced to a comfortable nine-wicket win over China to reach the women's Twenty20 cricket final at the Asian Games on Thursday. The victory in the semifinal handed Bangladesh their first medal of...
International Herald Tribune
Officials named the first drugs cheat of these Asian Games on Friday, casting a stain on the career of a judoka from Uzbekistan while removing his silver medal. Shokir Muminov, 27, a bronze medallist at the 2006 Doha Games, tested positive for...
China News
Doping has reared its ugly head at the Asian Games as a Uzbekistan judo silver medalist was caught using a banned stimulant. Shokir Mumonov, who won a silver medal after losing to South Korean Kim Jae-Bum in the 81kg division final last Sunday, has...
The Age
The 27-year-old, who won a bronze at the last Asiad in Doha four years ago, lost to South Korea's Kim Jae-Bum in Sunday's final and failed a dope test the same day. "The athlete has been disqualified from the competition as well as these Games and...
The Hindu
November 19, 2010 Judo silver medallist Shokir Muminov was the first athlete caught for doping at the Asian Games, with organisers announcing on Friday that the 27-year-old Uzbekistan athlete had failed a doping test and been disqualified from...