🥇 WE WON GOLD! - Jeus Yape has scored a fourth Gold for the Philippines at Aichi-Nagoya 2026, as he is the inaugural champion in the newly-added mixed virtual taekwondo competition after sweeping aside Vietnam's Chau Ngoc Tuyet Sang at 2-0.

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SQUASH - At Nagoya's Kinjo Futo Arena, squash concludes action at the Asian Games this Friday with the men's and women's team finals.

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL (2 October) - We head on over to the sands at Hekinan Ryokuchi Beach Court, as the top place in the podium goes up for grabs in women's beach volleyball.

Women's Bronze final: 🇵🇭🆚🇨🇳 (12:00 pm JST)
Women's Gold final: 🇹🇭🆚🇨🇳 (01:00 pm JST)

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SOFTBALL (2 October) - It's play ball for one last time in the preliminaries, as spots in the medal matches tomorrow are on the line at Anjo Softball Ground.

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ESPORTS - eSports will have its grand finale this Friday at Hall D in Aichi Sky Expo, and we close things off on a legendary note as the gold medal is on the line in League of Legends (LoL).

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SAILING - We set sail onto Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor, as sailing competitions continue with five final races on the table this Friday:

- Boys' Skiff (29er)
- Girls' Skiff (29er)
- Mixed Dinghy (470)
- Men's Dinghy (ILCA 7)
- Women's Dinghy (ILCA 6)

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TENNIS - This Friday at the Higashiyama Park Tennis Center, the medals in tennis are to be contested in the women's singles and the men's doubles events.

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Hong Kong has swept all of the Pool A assignments as they blank China this morning, claiming victory at the score of 22-0 with the quarter-finals now on their horizon.

🇭🇰 HKG - 22
🇨🇳 CHN - 0

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VOLLEYBALL | Men's classification (9th-16th):

🇰🇿 KAZ - 3
🇭🇰 HKG - 2

🇰🇬 KGZ - 0
🇹🇼 TPE - 3

🇻🇳 VIE - 3
🇺🇿 UZB - 0

🇵🇭 PHI - 1
🇮🇩 INA - 3

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The hosts put on an absolute masterclass right in front of the home crowd just as world no. 5 Japan crushes Qatar, winning 25–14, 25–13, 25–12 for the Ryujin Nippon to set up a clash with China in the semis.

🇯🇵 JPN - 3
🇶🇦 QAT - 0

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Wang Bin dropped 15 points on 13 kills, one block and one ace as China moves on to the men's Final Four, cleaning out the Thais at Okazaki in straight sets, 25–23, 25–23, 25–19.

🇹🇭 THA - 0
🇨🇳 CHN - 3

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A brace coming from Abu Kamal Azrai has catapulted Malaysia's Speedy Tigers to their first men's final in eight years, setting up Saturday's high-stakes clash with India for Asiad gold after taking down South Korea at 2-1.

🇲🇾 MAS - 2
🇰🇷 KOR - 1

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Harmanpreet Singh scored twice before Abhishek Nain struck in the final minute as India inches to a win closer toward title retention, moving on to the final after edging Pakistan at 4-3 in anticipating thriller between heavyweights.

🇮🇳 IND - 4
🇵🇰 PAK - 3

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RUGBY SEVENS - Play continues at Mizuho Park Rugby Field, as this is the penultimate day of rugby sevens at the 2026 Asiad.

- Preliminary Round 3 (09:00 am JST)
- Men's Classification (9th-12th) (01:35 pm JST)
- Men's quarter-finals (02:25 pm JST)

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Welcome to Day 13, our third-to-last day here at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

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RUGBY SEVENS | Preliminary Session 2 (1 October) (2/2):

M | Pool C:
🇱🇰 SRI - 33
🇸🇬 SGP - 17

W | Pool D:
🇹🇭 THA - 36
🇸🇬 SGP - 0

W | Pool E:
🇭🇰 HKG - 36
🇲🇾 MAS - 12

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China finished the day with a two-game sweep in Pool E after they've rolled past India, winning 43-5 as Chen Keyi posted nine points on one try and two conversions, while Chen Can led the scoring in the match with 10 points on two tries.

🇨🇳 CHN - 43
🇮🇳 IND - 5

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Honoka Tsutsumi, Marin Kajiki and Mei Ohtani scored two tries each as Japan's women's sevens team swept for two on Thursday, clean sheeting Kazakhstan with an easy 48-0 win.

🇯🇵 JPN - 48
🇰🇿 KAZ - 0

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We usher ourselves onto October, and this is Day 12 here at the 2026 Asian Games.

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FIELD HOCKEY | Men's classification (5th-8th) (1 October):

🇯🇵 JPN - 9
🇹🇭 THA - 1

🇨🇳 CHN - 7
🇧🇩 BAN - 1

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