19th Asian Games officially opens tomorrow
Hangzhou (China): The 19th edition of Asian Games will officially open tomorrow while the competitions will continue until next October 8.
Qatar is participating in the tournament with a delegation that includes 185 male and female athletes competing in 27 sports: archery, athletics, basketball, boxing, chess, cycling, electronic sports, equestrian, football, fencing, gymnastics, golf, handball, jiu-jitsu, and karate.
Windsurfing, squash, swimming, tennis, taekwondo, triathlon, table tennis, volleyball, 3×3 basketball, beach volleyball, weightlifting, and bow and arrow.
In general, more than 12,000 male and female athletes from 45 countries will participate in the tournament, competing for 481 gold medals that will be distributed in 40 different sports, nine of which will qualify for the Summer Olympic Games scheduled in the French capital, Paris, next year.
This is the third time that China has hosted the Asian Games after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010. The tournament was scheduled for the summer of 2022, but was postponed to this year due to the repercussions of Covid-19 pandemic.
The games will be held in 54 sports venues, most of them in Hangzhou but also extending to five other cities, while the opening ceremony will be held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center Stadium, which has a capacity of 80,000 spectators, and will host athletics competitions and the opening and closing ceremonies.
The Qatari teams participating in the Hangzhou Olympics 2022 have high hopes and ambitions to achieve the largest number of medals to confirm the great development witnessed by Qatari sports in light of the great interest and support it receives.
