Bahrain Set for Asian Games Track Events
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2018 19 Karmakar leaves Bahrain set for Asian empty handed AFP | Jakarta said he had felt “big, big pres- sure” as victory was the only Games track events ndia’s star gymnast Dipa way to stop his gymnastics IKarmakar left the Asian club being kicked out of their TDT | Manama Eid, Kimi Adikoya, Eman Issa, Games distraught on Friday, training hall in Hong Kong. Aminat Youssef (400x4 medley saying she had “a very bad feel- “Now I’ve got the medal I ahrain will introduce 38 relay). ing” as she departed Jakarta can stay,” he said, adding that it of its finest athletes start- Today’s action will see Bah- empty-handed. had been very difficult to calm Bing today when they com- rain in action in two finals – The 25-year-old -- one of himself in the past few days. pete for glory at Gelora Bung men’s 42km marathon (Abdi just a handful of athletes to The 26-year-old made his Karno Stadium in Jakarta at the Ebrahim and Al Hassan Al Ab- have the infamous ‘Vault of name at London 2012 after be- 18th Asian Games. basi), which gets underway at Death’ in her repertoire -- was coming the first male gymnast The athletics events com- 2am (Bahrain time), and wom- among the favourites to take from Hong Kong to compete at mence this morning as Bah - en’s 10,000m final (Eunice home a medal at the regional an Olympic Games. rain’s athletes look to break the Chumba and Shitaye Eshte) at Olympics. But he failed to progress be- previous record set at the 2004 4am. But Karmakar failed on Fri- yond the first round and con- Incheon Asian Games when the Ali Khamis and Abbas day to make it to the podium sidered quitting the sport, say- nationals took 18 medals in to- Abubaker will both compete in the balance beam, finishing ing at the time he had “wanted tal (9 gold, 6 silver, 3 bronze), later today in the men’s 400m in fifth. to die right there”. which saw the kingdom finish heat at 5am, while Hajer Al That came after she was in 12th position among 46 coun- Amiri and Edidiong will enter forced to pull out of the team High-pitched squeals tries in Asia. Bahrain’s Maytham Sabba during his jiu jitsu match against Uzbekistan’s the women’s 100m heat, An - final through injury and floun- Shek’s score of 14.612 pushed In the Jakarta athletics events, Khomidjon Muminov drew and Saeed the men’s 100m dered in her favourite appara- South Korea’s Kim Han- half of Bahrain’s athletics team heat, and Salwa and Iman in the tus, the vault, missing out on sol into second with 14.550, includes men’s athletes, namely Salwa Eid Nasser, Eman Issa women’s 400m in the evening qualification behind two of her while Indonesia secured their Andrew Fisher, Saeed Al Amiri (400m Women’s Race), Marta session. team-mates. first-ever gymnastics medal (Men’s 100m), Yaqoub Salem, Yota, Manal Al Bahrawi (800m In jiu jitsu, Maytham Sabba “I had a very bad feeling af- with Agus Prayoko on 14.125. Andrew Fisher (Men’s 200m), Men’s Race), Tigest Belay, lost his 69kg opener 2-5 to Uz- ter the podium (for the vault),” It was Kim’s second medal in Ali Khamis, Abbas Abu Baker Kalkidan Befkadu (Women’s bekistan’s Khomidjon Muminov she told AFP. “I didn’t do my Jakarta after taking home the (men’s 400m) ), Al Siddiq Mik- 1,500m), Motielli (3,000 wom- in the opening fight to exit the best.” gold in the men’s floor exercise ho, Mohammed Ayoub (men’s 38 en’s contenders), Kalkidan Be- competition. Bahrain hopefuls She said the first of her two on Thursday. athletes from Bahrain 1,500m), John Keppit, Evans are participating in the fkadu, Bontu Rebitu (women’s Abdulla Monfaridi (62kg) and vaults had been poor, but add- On the parallel bars, China’s Rutho (men’s 3000m), Perha- athletics events in Asian 5,000m), Ionis Gumba, Shitay Mohammed Ghareeb (94kg) ed she had been unlucky not Zou Jingyuan scooped the gold nu Yamato, Albert Rop (men’s Games this year Ashti (10,000m women’s race), will be in action today at 6am. to make it through as neither in front of compatriot of Xiao 5,000m), Abraham Cheroben Aminat Youssef, 400 meters In cycling, Razan Sabooh of her team-mates put on their Ruoteng. (men’s 100x4), Ali Khamis, Ab- hurdles), Rose Gillmo (women’s achieved 12th position in an- best show. High-pitched squeals from bas Abu Baker, Abraham Rotish, marathon), Nora Jassem (dis- ti-clockwise race, which was “I was very disappointed. Japan fans were not enough to Yaqoub Salem (men’s 400x4), cus throw), Salwa Eid, Aminat over 20km with 13 riders in the They also did not do a good spur the country’s new super- Ali Khamis, Abbas Abu Baker, basi (men’s marathon). Youssef, Eman Issa, Edidiong fray. This was Razan’s second performance,” she said. star Kakeru Tanigawa to victo- Saad Salem Mubarak, Abdulrah- In the women’s section, Ha- Odiong (Women’s 100x4 re - race at the games, after she was Karmakar -- who last month ry -- and he finished down in man Khamis (400x4 medley), jar Al Amiri, Edidiong Odi - lay), Salwa Eid, Aminat Youssef, forced out in the previous race bagged India’s first-ever gold fourth behind fellow Japanese Abdi Ibrahim, Al Hassan Al Ab- ong (Women’s 100m, 200m), Edidiong (400x4 relay), Salwa due to technical issues. medal in a global gymnastic Kenta Chiba. event -- lost out to China’s In the women’s floor, North Chen Yile, who won her third Korea’s Kim Su Jong tri- gold medal of the Games with umphed ahead of Rifda Irfa- a score of 14.600. naluthfi of Indonesia -- who Indonesia rower dedicates gold to baby Behind her came North Ko- landed their second medal of rea’s Kim Su Jong on 13.400 the night. Palembang, Indonesia and China’s Zhang Jin on And in the final artistic gym- 13.325. nastics event of the Games, ost nation Indonesia took Elsewhere, Hong Kong won Taiwan’s Tang Chia-Hung held Hits first-ever Asian Games its first gymnastics medal of off Chinese competition to win rowing gold yesterday with one the Asian Games when defend- the men’s horizontal bar. team member dedicating the ing champion Shek Wai-hung Sun Wei swung into silver medal to his newborn baby that bagged the gold on vault. medal position, leaving Xiao he has not yet been able to meet. Shek -- nicknamed Stone -- Ruoteng to pick up bronze. Victory in the lightweight men’s eight was the country’s ninth gold medal in the regional Olympics, bringing it only two short of its record set in 1962, the last time the nation hosted the event. Rowers of Indonesia (back) react after winning next to rowers of Uzbekistan (middle) and Hong Kong (front) in the men’s As they crossed the finish line, lightweight eight rowing final the team stood up in their boat, pumping their fists in the air baby whom I have never met,” more golds, bringing the giant symbolic rowing hopes of Uni- while overjoyed supporters re- he told reporters. to an all-time Asian Games gold fied Korea, a team combining peatedly chanted “Indonesia!” Uzbekistan took the silver, medal tally of 1,400. athletes from both the North One of the heroic eight, Tanzil while Hong Kong’s bronze was Korea and Japan took one and South of the divided pen- Hadid, spoke of the personal its second rowing medal of the gold each and India came first insula. sacrifice that he had made to get day after bagging silver in the in the men’s quadruple sculls Their women’s lightweight the gold round his neck. men’s lightweight single sculls. to win its second-ever rowing double sculls team came in last, “I dedicate this medal to my In the day’s other six rowing gold. and the lightweight men’s eight family -- especially my newborn races, China scooped up three But the day saw an end to the team finished fifth out of six. Christie stuns Yuqi on day of badminton upsets AFP | Jakarta he said, adding that it will be “step by step” for him. ndonesia’s Jonatan Christie Despite the difference in their Ilay flat on the court with dis- world rankings, Christie now belief after his shock win over leads Yuqi 4-3 in head-to-head top-seeded Chinese Shi Yuqi in encounters. front of a raucous home crowd Yuqi argued with the umpire at the Asian Games badminton on a couple of line decisions Friday. and his frustration was clearly Christie, 20, edged out world visible. number two Yuqi 21-19, 19-21, Yuqi rallied to win the sec- 21-17 in an enthralling one-hour ond game but Christie kept his eight-minute battle in the first calm to take the third game round of the regional Olympics and set up a round-of-16 meet- in Jakarta. Indonesia’s Jonatan Christie ing with Thailand’s Khosit Ranked 15th in the world, Phetpradab. Christie matched his senior ri- “It’s like Yuqi did not move a bit slower than before,” Chris- “Both of us played well. I val serve-to-serve and smash- fast enough. Maybe because tie told reporters. tried my best, could have played to-smash as a partisan crowd he went after Anthony (Sinisu- “The audience was amazing better had I committed fewer erupted in deafening applause ka Ginting) in the team event as they gave me the necessary mistakes, but that’s the way it India’s Dipa Karmakar participates in the beam competition in the final at at each Indonesian point.