EJ Obiena cruised to gold in an Asian Games record on Saturday -- and then said he missed not having record-breaker Armand Duplantis to compete against.
Obiena has been one of Swedish world record-holder Duplantis's closest rivals this year, finishing second behind him at last month's world championships in Budapest.
But he also said he felt like "a villain" for beating home favorite Huang Bokai to the gold. Huang instead earned silver."I felt like I was taking the medal from someone else." The 30-year-old Xie claimed the first Asian Games individual gold of his career, having been part of China's title-winning 4x100m relay team in 2014.China's Su Bingtian, who reached the 100m final at the Tokyo Games, skipped the Asian Games to focus on his preparations for next year's Paris Olympics.Ge came home in 11.23sec to take the women's title ahead of Singapore's Shanti Pereira and Bahrain's Hajar Alkhaldi .
She returned to competition earlier this year but she could not overhaul Adekoya in a furious battle down the home straight, finishing 0.26sec behind.
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