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Pan Zhanle defended his Asian Games 100m freestyle title in Nagoya with 47.61, a 0.04-second margin — his best swim since Paris 2024, in a race he says he believed he was losing until the final metre.
The Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks will play the NBA's returning China Games in Macau this October — the league's most visible step back into China since the 2019 freeze, marketed this time as a fan festival rather than a political statement.
With the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games barely under way, organizers apologized after playing North Korea's anthem to South Korea's hockey team — the latest failure in a run of transport breakdowns, cardboard bedrooms and cruise-ship quarters that Chinese fans are cataloguing in a viral ten-item list. South Korea plans a formal protest, India's media has weighed in, and a typhoon is approaching.
China's men's basketball team lost 77-97 to a largely second-string Japanese side in the Asian Games semifinal in Nagoya on Sept 18, the anniversary of the 1931 Mukden Incident. The defeat, the second heavy loss to Japan's domestic core in two months, has triggered calls for the coach's dismissal and a national reckoning over Chinese basketball's decline.
China's men's table tennis squad spent a night without a bed, gymnast Zhang Boheng went twelve hours without food, and Thailand's team slept on a terminal floor — the Asian Games' transport shambles have widened from an airport delay into a multi-team scandal.
Days before the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games opened, delegations including China's table tennis and gymnastics teams spent up to six hours at the airport waiting for buses that never came, after a booking-system failure left athletes hungry on the terminal floor — the first organizational crisis of a Games already criticized over its housing.
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