Its time for adieu to Asian Games-2010 at Guangzhou, Vijendher will be the Flag bearer

Brave Vijender(boxer) will be the Flag bearer and lead the Medal March of Indians....

World number one boxer Vijender Singh, who braved a dislocated thumb to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games, will be India's flagbearer at the closing ceremony of the mega-event on Saturday.
The 25-year-old has a plaster on his injured hand right now but national coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu said he would still have no trouble lifting the flag at the ceremony this evening.

After the good run in the tournament India is very happy with their performance in this edition, staying at 6th position in the points table. As this year our athletes and sports person performed well in two major world class events, there is a sign of motivation to all the young and upcoming youth of the India to concentrate more in sports.
Hope! India will perform more and more efficiently in next coming events...

Here is a list that gives all the information(complete of medals won by India in this mega event.

INDIA's Detailed Medal List

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Indian Kabaddi teams(Men and Women) swept away the Kabaddi Golds beating Thailand and Iran respectively

Kabaddi! Kabaddi! Kabaddi...!.........!! Sounds Golds for India....

Wow! What a day for India? It is almost the closing time for Asian Games and India managed to gain most number of Medals in Asian Games for the first time and still the quest is on. Currently we have 12-Gold, 15-Silver, 33-Bronze... and a total of 60 medals.

Indian Kabaddi Women's team and Men's team made an enthralling effort to claim the Golds in both the categories. Where, Indian Women's team beat Thailand with final score of 28-14 earlier. Later after this win Indian Men's Team also repeated the same performance and efforts to beat Iran with 37-20. Hence India had Back to Back golds under its medals tally.

Its the first time Women's Kabaddi was introduced into Asian games and we had the Inaugural Medal.

India Created History....

This not the first time Indian Men's Team performed this way. Since the game(kabaddi) was introduced into Asian Games it is only India won all the Gold Medals in all the editions, this is the 6th Consecutive Gold for Indian Mens' kabaddi team.

But this time we made a Historic Double in Kabaddi, by winning in both MEN and WOMEN categories..

     Chak de India!

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Somdev Devvarman wins India's First Ever Singles Title/Gold in Asian Games

The Assam lad, Somdev Devvarman today created history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal in the men’s singles tennis event of the Asian Games after defeating the top seed and world number 44 Denis Istomin with 6-1 6-2 in a lop-sided summit clash here.

This is Somdev's second gold from the tennis competition, and seventh for India, having already captured yellow in the men’s doubles with Sanam Singh.

Previously no Indian player had played in the gold—medal match in the men’s singles event before Somdev, world no. 106, and the country had three bronze medals to show so far at the Games.

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Somdev Devvarman and Sanam singh won doubles Tennis beating Gong Maoxin and Li Zhe of China

Somdev Devvarman and Sanam singh won gold medal in doubles Tennis match beating Gong Maoxin and Li Zhe of China with 2-1 sets at Guangzhou. This is the 6th Gold for India and so far India won 6 Gold medals, 12 Silver and 18 bronze medals till now. On the other hand, Sania and Vishnu lost the gold medal match against Chinese Taipei players, and settled for silver medal.
To View Medal tally click below.....
MEDAL TALLY

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Indian runners, Sreedharan Preeja and Kavitha, make show in asian games women 100mtrs Final

Indian long-distance runners Preeja Sreedharan, Kavitha won gold and silver medals respectively women’s 10,000m final to clinch the country’s fourth gold medal at the Asian Games here on Sunday.

Kavita Raut, who won the bronze in the women’s 10,000m at the Commonwealth Games last month, walked away with the silver with a personal best timing of 31:51.44.

Sreedharan, who had finished fifth in both the 5,000m and the 10,000m in the last edition of the Games in 2006, raised her performance to give India a flying start in track and field competition.

Hockey....
India defeated Japan 3-2 for their fourth consecutive win and finished atop the points-table in group B of the Asian Games men’s hockey competition, here on Sunday.

With four wins out of as many matches, India finished on top of Group B with 12 points, while arch-rivals Pakistan finished second with nine points.

India will now take on the second placed team from Group A — the winners of the match between China or Malaysia later in the day — in the semifinals on November 24 while Pakistan will be up against formidable Korea.
History of Asian games 2010 Mascot 'Le Yangyang' means '乐 羊羊' and General Competition Schedule for the 16th Asian Games V1.6

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Pankaj Advani won India's first GOLD in Asian Games 2010 in Billiards game

Pankaj Advani gets India its first gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games....
India got its first GOLD medal on the second day of the Asian Games here in the Guangzhou, in China. Pankaj Advani finished the game with 100-45 in the fifth frame to beat Thway. Fantastic achievement by Pankaj Advani, the defending champion, keeping his nerve to win back to back gold medals.
After this GOLD India will be at 4th position in the table. The Medal tally will be as given below.....

Rank	NOC	G	S	B	T
1	China	22	10	8	40
2	R.O. Korea	9	4	10	23
3	Japan	5	14	10	29
4	India	1	3	1	5
5	Hong Kong, China	1	1	1	3

News also coming in that India's Alok Kumar has accounted for Indonesia's Ricky Yang in the quarterfinal of the men's eight-ball pool singles.
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Fabulous opening to the Asiad 2010 at the Haixinsha Island in Guangzhou, China

The largest ever Asian games featured with a fabulous opening ceremony.....
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao declared open the Games in the middle of the Pearl River on Haixinsha Island, to the thunderous explosion of a massive fireworks display with residential buildings and the 610-metre high Canton Tower as a backdrop.

"Remember, you are part of history right here, right now," Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah , President of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said at the Opening Ceremony.

"Please show us your best performance, and show us the spirit of sportsmanship, fair play, friendship and respect to your fellow athletes and officials."

The Guangzhou Games is the largest ever Asian Games featuring 28 Olympic and 14 non-Olympic sports with 476 gold medals up for grabs. The Games will see the debuts of cricket, dance sports, dragon boat racing, roller sports and Go chess.

Guangdong Province built and renovated more than 70 stadiums. The air and water quality in Guangzhou has been improved, its transportation system updated and barrier-free facilities in place. Some 900,000 volunteers will go all out to ensure a comfortable and safe environment for the audience and athletes.

The Asian Games has urged Guangzhou residents to behave in a more civilised manner as a massive education campaign was launched shortly after the city won the hosting rights in 2004.

Guangzhou officials have handed out one million brochures and sent 40 million text messages to teach its citizens better manners and even how to smile.

The Art performance and Fireworks displayed during Opening Ceremony of Asian Games gave a unique look to the opening ceremony.

Here are some glimpses of the Opening event......

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ASIAN GAMES, Full detailed list of Sports/Games and the venues in Guangzhou(CHINA)

The Guangzhou 2010 Asian Games complete list of Sports Events.....
Here are the complete list of sports and games that are going to be conducted at the Asian Games 2010 in China. The newly introduced games Cricket will be played almost as T20 matches please go through below to know completely about Cricket game Rules& Regulations in Asian games 2010.

LIST OF SPORTS:
1.)Aquatics

• Swimming
• Diving
• Water polo
• Synchronised Swimming

2.)Archery
3.)Athletics
4.)Badminton
5.)Baseball
6.)Basketball

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Complete List of New and Renovated Venues/Stadiums for Guangzhou Asian Games 2010

Here is list of venues and stadiums at China for 16th Asian Games 2010...........

Host City

Guangzhou:

Guangzhou, located at the north of the Pearl River delta, is an important trading center as well as a busy port and the capital city of the province of Guandong . The city has an area of over 16,000 square kilometers and a population of 6.7 million.

Like Athens of Greece and Rome of Italy, Guangzhou also has a history of more than 2,800 years.

Guangzhou is also one of the most important centers of foreign commerce in South China.The city is renowned for its arts and crafts, namely the Guang Dong embroidery, ivory-carving and ceramics.Guangzhou is a beautiful city with an ever-green scenery and flowers blooming all the year round. The city boasts many tourist attractions, among which highlights are White Cloud Hill Scenic Spot. Yuexiu Park, Guangzhou Zoo, Six Banyan Temple and Flowery Pagoda, Dr. Sun Yatsen Memorial Hall, etc. In the Suburbs, there are such scenic spot on Conghua Hot Springs, Xiqiao Hill Scenic spot, Seven Star Crags, and Foshan City. Lots of tourists to Guangzhou like to cover one or two of them for out-of-city pleasure."Eating in Guangzhou" has become a popular saying both at home and abroad. Guangzhou ranks first in the number of restaurants and tea-houses in the country.

Co-Host cities

1. Foshan

2. Dongguan

3. Shanwei

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History of Asian games 2010 Mascot 'Le Yangyang' means '乐 羊羊' and General Competition Schedule for the 16th Asian Games V1.6

ASIAN GAMES Mascot 'Le Yangyang' has great history look at it here...

"Le Yangyang” is name of the leader of our five Goats and the name which refers to all of the 16th Asian Games Mascots, each of them sporty and cute, and each serving as an Official Mascot. The Mascots substantiate a part of Guangzhou’s unique history and culture and each Goat has an individual name that is distinctly Cantonese in style: A Xiang[a: 'sj∧ŋ], A He[a: 'hə:], A Ru[a: 'ru:], A Yi[a: 'ji:] and Le Yangyang ['lə: j∧ŋj∧ŋ]. When you put their names together, Xiang He Ru Yi Le Yangyang - meaning Peace, Harmony and Great Happiness, with everything going as you wish - they fully express the people of Guangzhou’s hope that the 16thAsian Games bring peace, prosperity, success and happiness to the people of Asia and fulfill their, and our, Vision of a “Thrilling Games and Harmonious Asia”.

The designs of the Mascots are strongly inspired by a legend about the City of Guangzhou: As the legend goes: A long time ago, the farm lands in Guangzhou ran dry, food could not be grown and the people experienced a famine. They could do nothing but pray to the heavens for luck. Moved by their piety, Five Immortals descended from the heavens, riding on goats with coats of different colors, each holding ears of rice in its mouth. The Immortals gave the rice ears to the people of Guangzhou and promised that the land would be “free from famine”. Afterwards, the Immortals disappeared into the sky. The Five Goats that were left behind turned into stone. From that time onwards, Guangzhou reaped a bumper harvest of grain every year and became the most prosperous city in the south of China. The Five Goats of this thousand-year-old legend have gone on become the most well-known symbol of Guangzhou.

The goat also has a strong association with Chinese culture and tradition, particularly Chinese characters that signify catering, etiquette and aesthetics. In the language of ancient Chinese, the character “羊” yang (goat) is identical to the character “祥” xiang (luck). The character “美” mei (beautiful) is a combination of the characters “羊”, yang, and “大” da (big), in keeping with the traditional Chinese belief that a “big goat” is “beautiful”. The goat is also considered an auspicious animal that brings luck, in other Asian cultures. Through our choice of a goat, we sincerely believe our Mascots will appeal to, and resonate with, people of different cultures and religions throughout Asia, who we hope will grow to love them as much as we do.

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