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[Prime Volleyball @PrimeVolley]

All set for another showdown! 🇮🇳

India takes on Qatar at the Asian Games.

India vs Qatar | 12:30 PM IST | 29th September
Watch live on @SonyLIV

#IndianVolleyball #AsianGames2026 #aichinagoya2026

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

Bhim Singh won a high jump bronze in 1970 Asian Games.

And no Indian male won a medal for two generations.. till this 31 year old Sarvesh Kushare cleared 2.25 meters at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.

56 years of wait!! What a moment.

[Athletics Federation of India @afiindia]

🏁 FINAL DAY | #AsianGames2026 Athletics 🇮🇳
9 FINALS. INDIA IN EVERY ONE. 🔥 (All times IST)
🏅 2:50 PM: Men's Pole Vault (Dev Kumar Meena, Kuldeep Kumar)
🏅 3:35 PM: Women's High Jump (Pooja, Supriya Basavaraju)
🏅 4:05 PM: Women's Hammer (Anushka Yadav, Tanya Chaudhary)
🏅 4:20 PM: Women's 800m (Pooja)
🏅 4:35 PM: Men's 800m (Mohammed Afsal)
🏅 4:45 PM: Men's 5000m (Gulveer Singh, Avinash Sable)
🏅 5:18 PM: Mixed 4x100m Relay
🏅 5:35 PM: Women's 4x400m Relay
🏅 5:47 PM: Men's 4x400m Relay (fastest qualifiers! ⚡)
19 medals so far. One more day to go for GOLD 🥇
Let's go, India! 🇮🇳

#TeamIndia #IndianAthletics #Nagoya2026

[Anand @the_anandgoyal]

Biggest Fluke Olympics Gold Medalist of Paris 2024 was Arshad Nadeem .

He has literally won nothing after it , like no medals

Gold to bahut dur ki baat hai .

Commentators announce him as Regining Olympics Champion but he never delivers

Neeraj Chopra ka Gold kha gya

[Rambo @monster_zero123]

#AsianGames2026 wrestling draws are Out

FS 65 kg: Sujeet Kalkal🇮🇳, Olympic champ Kiyooka🇯🇵 are in the same half and shoukd meet in the semis. Sujeet vs Ebrahimzadeh 🇮🇷 potential QF.

[nnis Sports|Asian GamesAthletics @nnis_sports]

🚨 #BREAKING : AFI TO APPROACH CAS OVER SHAILI SINGH’S JUMP MEASUREMENT!

The Athletics Federation of India is set to approach the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over the disputed measurement of Shaili Singh’s fourth attempt in the women’s long jump final at the Asian Games 2026.

Shaili’s fourth jump was officially measured at 6.41m. She alleges that the fourth attempt was measured from the wrong mark.

According to sources, AFI protested immediately after the event, but the appeal was rejected.

“We showed them our video, which was clearly proving our point, but they showed their own video, which was not clear. We asked for another angle, which they denied,” Shaili said.

Shaili eventually finished 4th, missing the bronze medal by just 4cm after China’s Tan Mengyi jumped 6.46m with her final attempt.

#Breaking #AsianGames2026 #ShailiSingh #LongJump #AFI #CAS #IndianAthletics #Athletics #TeamIndia #NNISSports

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

I have a confession. While it is the Olympics which is by far the greatest sporting spectacle on the planet, my favourite events are actually the Asian Games. And that's because during them for a few days we celebrate the breadth and diversity of this huge, wonderful harum-scarum country.
In the Olympics, we at best hope for something from the shooters and badminton stars and pray for hockey to bring back some glory.
But here, we get India as it was meant to be.
Maharashtrian Aslam Inamdar selling discarded bottles for a square meal before making it the Indian kabaddi team and a gold medal and Tejaswin Shankar, grading students papers in Kansas State University on his way to a Decathlon bronze.
Sawan Barwal, the long distance sensation from the hills of Mandi getting a marathon medal – the first since 1982, and Satnam and Salman, Navy man and former Uber driver getting India’s first ever rowing medal
Suruchi, the golden girl from Sasroli in Jhajjar, Anahat the teenager who came back from three match points to make the finals, and Smriti Mandhana continuing her golden run.
6’8” Ashwal Rai, out there blocking on the volleyball court and 4’11” Mirabai Chanu, the wonder of Indian lifting, still delivering.
Fifty five year old Shruti Vora, competing in the dressage, and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, forty years younger, out there for the Indian cricket team.
So many more stars, so many heartwarming stories.
When I look at the the newspaper, and see these names in the headlines, perhaps the only time many of them will be there till the next games, it makes me feel so much better than what we normally get to read.
This is the idea of India that our founding fathers dreamt about.

[Dharma @galaxyofsport]

INDIA IS HEADING TOWARDS ZERO GOLD IN ATHLETICS AT THE ASIAN GAMES.

The last time India finished an Asian Games athletics campaign with ZERO gold was in 1990 and 1994.

Read that again.

Athletics has historically been one of India’s strongest Asian Games sports — 85 gold medals, putting India among the top three nations historically in Asian Games athletics.

So how are we struggling to find even ONE Asian champion in 2026?

Yes, there have been some excellent individual performances, silvers and bronzes. But for one of India’s strongest disciplines to potentially finish an Asian Games with ZERO gold, this demands serious introspection.

Injuries? Preparation? Athlete management? Competition planning? National-level development? Federation decisions?

And if weather, conditions or scheduling are being cited — weren’t those conditions the same for athletes from other Asian countries too?

So where exactly is the problem?

AFI needs to answer. The Sports Ministry needs to ask questions. And sports media needs to keep asking them.

How has Indian athletics reached a point where even an Asian Games gold is becoming so difficult?

#AsianGames2026 #IndianAthletics #Athletics #TeamIndia

CC: @KhelNow @SportsArena1234 @TheKhelIndia @afiindia @IndiaSports @Media_SAI @RevSportzGlobal

@SportsArena1234

[Kapil Choudhary @kapil857]

Neeraj Chauhan takes down the Korean!!! Incredible 5 sets of 30-29-29-29-29 and Kim Je Deok falls 6-4!!! 👏🏾👏🏾💪🏾💪🏾🧨🧨🔥🔥💥💥🎯🎯

Both recurve men Neeraj & Dhiraj through to QFs!!! 🥳🥳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Well done!! Brilliant!!

#AichiNagoya2026

[Boria Majumdar @BoriaMajumdar]

Big break

India’s Neeraj Chauhan knocks out 3 time Olympic Gold medalist Kim Je Deok in the Round of 16 in men’s recurve and makes the QF.

Dhiraj also is through as expected to the QF. Archery is doing very strong so far. @RevSportzGlobal

[emoekambaram @emo_ekambaram]

After Lakshya Sen loss in Paris Olympics, Indian team badminton head coach Prakash Padukone who happens to be a straight shooter blasted the atheletes to take more responsibility than asking more resources from the government. Our Asian Games medal tally just validates his stand.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The Deepika Kumari Paradox.

Her career throws up a fascinating pattern.

At the Olympics:

2012 - 33rd
2016 - 9th
2021 - 8th
2024 - 7th

4 Olympics. 0 individual medal.

Yet at World Cups, she has repeatedly shown that she can beat the very best.

11 World Cup stage golds including 4 individual golds + 5 World Cup Final silver medals and a Final bronze.

In 2021, just before Tokyo, she won individual gold in Guatemala and then went to Paris and won 3 golds in the same World Cup stage, individual, women's team and mixed team.

She arrived at Tokyo as the world No. 1. She still could not get past the quarterfinal :((

In May this year, Deepika helped India win the women's recurve team gold at the Shanghai World Cup, beating Korea and then China. She even shot the decisive final arrow under pressure.

But weeks later, in India's Asian Games selection trials, she finished 4th and missed the Asian Games team. She lost the final spot to Ankita Bhakat in a shoot-off.

So here is the question I find genuinely fascinating: If this is about handling pressure, shouldn't 15+ years at the highest level make it easier?

Maybe technical excellence and the ability to reproduce that excellence when the stakes are highest are two completely different skills.

I do not know the answer :((

But Deepika Kumari might be one of the most fascinating case studies in elite performance psychology in Indian sport.

[Navin sports @Navinsports]

SPOTLIGHT: SURAJ CHAND

India's 🆕 University Squash World Champion Suraj Chand got a well deserved Asian Games Debut and even won his debut Match in Straight Games (11-4,11-2,12-10) against 🇨🇳 in the group opener.

📸 : @AmitK98infinite

[Nihit @nihitsachdeva28]

Need a miracle.
A big miracle.
Hoping against hope.
That @SonyLIV doesn't get rights for the LA Olympics.
I can't tolerate this abomination during another multi-sports event.

[Indian Tennis Daily (ITD) @IndTennisDaily]

Asian Games 2026 - Men's Singles Round of 32

🇮🇳 Sumit Nagal vs 🇰🇷 Seongchan Hong

Rain stops play with Sumit leading 3-2 (30-30) in the opening set

Match has been called off for the day and will resume tomorrow

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Nagoya, Japan: After winning the silver medal at the Asian Games, Abhay Singh says, "I am a bit disappointed about not winning the gold, but I hope we will set things right next week and return with a better medal..."

[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

Yes, entire attention seems to be on Anahat Singh, but there really should be some more focus on the men's squash team. Personally, feel the chances of Gold is more in the Men's team event. In Abhay Singh, Veer Chotrani and Velavan Senthilkumar, India finds itself in an enviable position of 3 extremely competent players at the same time representing India. (Yes, we have had Ghosal, but if I dare say, many times in international tournaments it has been a solo battle by him). Include Suraj Chand in the mix who recently won an impressive tournament, I think that's the best representation India has had for ages. All these players (the entire squad actually) have been mentored heavily by Saurav Ghosal and it's evident how cohesive as a unit they seem, while also reflecting Ghosal's value system while playing. In a way Ghosal has been to this squad what Dada had been to cricket in early 2000s and if we ever get a proper squash culture going in our country, Saurav Ghosal is the person we should all be indebted to.
A bit about Veer Chotrani, who's a player to watch out for in the future. If Ali Farag (a squash great who's just retired) calls you the next Ramy Ashour (the silkiest players Squash world has ever seen, pretty much Squash's Federer) after a match, you shut up and take notice. Veer has gone toe to toe in many matches with world top 10 recently and can really go on to do great things. I'm all excited to see how he does in PSA tour this year and a gambling man would bet on him causing some upsets if not clinching some tournaments.
Senthilkumar (I have already posted about) has always been impressive but of late there seems to be this newfound belief and bit of swagger in him which has raised his level further. The Budapest Open win is a proof of that. And Abhay Singh is ofcourse the shoulder that Indian men's squash currently relies the most upon. Put in a match with Pakistan (who have some interesting youngsters as well dreaming of taking them back to their former heights), and this can be proper box office stuff.
Watch out guys, this can get us that elusive gold this games. Go team India!!

[. @Sayantan010104]

@Mohor_Chaudhuri @singhesha10 Anahat lost closely to Watanabe of Japan 3-2

[. @Sayantan010104]

@Tinniz1 @India_AllSports She fought very well and lost gold med in shoot off,so she is not like other silver medal specialists

[. @Sayantan010104]

@India_AllSports Singh will lose now💔