If you're bored with day-in, day-out sports like basketball or swimming or volleyball, then check out the Asian Games when they open officially on Saturday in Hangzhou, China. Of course, the games will have the regular Olympic menu of events with some offering qualifying spot for next year's Paris Olympics. But much of the focus
Kazahastan’s Askarbay Yedibayev competes during his taijijian wushu performance at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia last August 22, 2018.
Of course, the games will have the regular Olympic menu of events with some offering qualifying spot for next year’s Paris Olympics. Some of the regional sports specialties include kabaddi, sepaktakraw, wushu, and kurash. The Asian Games will also feature so-called “mind sports” that include bridge, chess, xiangqi and several others.
It bears a rough resemblance to the schoolyard game known in the United States as “Red Rover,” or a game known in England as “British Bulldog.”
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