Eel-loving schoolboy Yuki Kurihara, 11, received an Asian Video games gold medal in Japan on Saturday, extra weightlifting world data have been set and organizers admitted they have been “not happy” with ticket gross sales after swaths of empty seats have been seen on the athletics.
Kurihara, believed to be the youngest competitor on the Video games in Aichi-Nagoya, romped to a 10-2 victory within the esports recreation Puyo Puyo Champions after going 1-0 down within the closing.
“To be fully sincere, I felt a bit embarrassed, so I couldn’t actually present my expressions or change my face a lot,” Kurihara mentioned after blowing away a sequence of opponents, some thrice his age.
Kurihara, who says he eats eel to arrange for contests, bowed barely as he obtained his gold medal and gave a small wave.
“I’m actually blissful. The gold medal is admittedly stunning, shiny and heavy,” he mentioned.
Asian Video games organizers admitted ticket gross sales for some sports activities had been gradual after the primary athletics stadium noticed a sparse crowd for the second evening operating.
The Video games mentioned fewer than 60% of tickets had been snapped up for eight sports activities, together with soccer, in addition to the showpiece closing ceremony.
“We aren’t happy,” Satoshi Murate, secretary-general of the Video games organizing committee, mentioned in response to a query from AFP about spectator numbers.
Some tickets given to sponsors and different stakeholders had not been used, he mentioned.
“Seats have been allotted however some folks can’t come. Consequently, some competitions do have noticeable empty seats, and we discover that regrettable.”
The Video games additionally apologized for transport and lodging mix-ups that left some athletes stranded for hours.
“Regardless of the trigger, [the organizing committee] is accountable for offering the service and I sincerely apologize for the errors,” Murate mentioned.
Six extra world data have been set in weightlifting, taking the Video games complete to fifteen in 4 days, as North Korea’s Ri Received Ju received the boys’s 70kg for his nation’s fifth gold in eight occasions up to now.
Japan’s Masanori Miyamoto set a brand new snatch mark of 154kg however needed to accept silver when Ri lifted a world-record 198kg within the clear and jerk for a 349kg complete, additionally a brand new report.
Within the males’s 75kg, Indonesia’s Rahmat Erawan Abdullah received a second consecutive Asian Video games gold after setting world data within the clear and jerk (206kg) and complete (366kg).
Abdullah received Olympic bronze in Tokyo and Asian Video games gold in Hangzhou three years in the past, each at 73kg.
North Korea’s Ri Chong Track additionally received gold in Hangzhou, however on the heavier 81kg body weight, and he started Saturday by setting a world report within the snatch of 162kg.
However he failed together with his closing two lifts within the clear and jerk and was relegated to bronze with a 357kg complete, behind Thailand’s Olympic silver medalist Weeraphon Wichuma, who completed on 365kg.
Bahrain’s Salwa Naser set an Asian Video games report on a rain-sodden athletics monitor as she received the ladies’s 400m gold by a large margin.
Naser clocked 49.20sec, greater than three seconds away from Iran’s Zahra Zarei Manoujan (53.38). India’s Prachi Choudary accomplished the rostrum.
Within the males’s 400m, Thailand’s Joshua Atkinson’s late dip gave him gold in an exhilarating end as he edged the UAE’s Sulaiman Abdulrahman.
Atkinson clocked 44.90sec, nine-hundredths of a second forward of Abdulrahman, with Japan’s Joseph Nakajima taking bronze.
Bahrain’s Nelly Korir broke the Asian Video games report to win the ladies’s 1,500m in 4:04.50.
Within the ladies’s marathon, Bahrain’s Shitaye Habte lastly received an Asian Video games gold, 16 years after taking silver within the 10,000m on the Guangzhou Video games.
The mom of three held off Ciren Cuomu of China and Japan’s Mikuni Yada to cross the road in 2:27.31.
“Possibly it’s the time to cease,” Habte mentioned.
“I’m 36 years previous. However my goal for my final competitors is the [2027] world championships.
“I’ve three infants and my second, he mentioned, ‘Mama, don’t run.’ He desires me at dwelling. However now he might be very blissful.”
Japan have been crushed 75-70 within the ladies’s basketball, breaking the hearts of the house followers packed into the 17,000-capacity Aichi Worldwide Area in Nagoya.
A second Video games competitor additionally failed a doping check, the Worldwide Testing Company mentioned.
Dayanch Keletliyev of Turkmenistan returned a constructive check for the prohibited substance meldonium in an out-of-competition check on September 20.
He misplaced within the karate kumite spherical of 32 the subsequent day.