Qatar’s Femi Ogunode celebrates his win in the men’s 100-meter final with an Asian record of 9.93 seconds on a wet track at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium during the 17th Asian Games in Incheon Tomas Tatar Jersey , South Korea, yesterday. QATAR’S Femi Ogunode, returning from a doping ban Gustav Nyquist Jersey , broke the 10-second mark at the Asian Games for the first time, splashing his way through the rain to 100 meters gold yesterday.
On a day when China smashed through the 100 gold medal mark, and second-placed South Korea put daylight between itself and Japan Justin Abdelkader Jersey , Ogunode blasted out of the blocks and motored home ahead of China’s Su Bingtian and Japan’s Kei Takase.
China’s Zhang Peimeng came up short again in his quest to become the first Asian sprinter to break the 10-second barrier, finishing fourth in 10.18.
Originally from Nigeria, Ogunode won the 200-400 double four years ago and is going for the 100-200 in Incheon.
While his task was made easier by the withdrawal of Japan’s Yoshihide Kiryu due to injury Nick Jensen Jersey , his time of 9.93 seconds in atrocious conditions confirmed his status as Asia’s fastest man.
“I had always confidence in myself,” he told a news conference. “I don’t know what to say. So grateful and so happy. After four months of training, I am now looking forward to going back home to meet my family.”
Ogunode returned in January from a two-year ban for using clenbuterol and he said he was hungry for more success in next year’s world championships and the 2016 Olympics.
In the women’s blue riband sprint Dylan Larkin T-Shirts , China’s Wei Yongli pipped Japan’s Chisato Fukushima by a hundredth of a second, with Kazakh Olga Safronova third.
“This is my first win in a big competition like this and I’ve been waiting a long time. It’s really moving,” said Wei Frans Nielsen T-Shirts , whose personal best is 11.29 and who won in Incheon in 11.48.
China clinched four other athletics titles yesterday — the men’s and women’s 20-kilometer race walk, women’s hammer and men’s pole vault.
Bahrain’s Ruth Jebet finally got her gold medal after her disqualification from the women’s steeplechase the previous night was overturned.
The Kenyan-born 17-year-old had momentarily stepped off the track during her run at the Asiad Main Stadium and was then stunningly stripped of her gold medal while waiting for the prize-giving ceremony and had to be led away in tears.
However, reviews later showed that her infraction had not impeded any of her competitors and the decision was reversed Mike Green T-Shirts , allowing Jebet to stand atop the podium at a rearranged ceremony yesterday.
“I was quite shocked because I wasn’t even aware of the mistake,” she said. “I’m happy to become a gold medalist because I had a problem yesterday. But I fought for my king.”
After nine days of competition, China is out of sight at the top of the table on 105 golds.
South Korea Gordie Howe T-Shirts , a runner-up at the last four Games, looks likely to do so again after finishing the day with 42 golds, eight more than Japan.
The Northeast Asian rivals went head-to-head in the quarterfinals of the men’s soccer tournament yesterday Dylan Larkin Hoodie , with the host coming out on top 1-0 after scoring a late penalty kick.
South Korean fans also got the baseball gold medal they had been demanding after the hosts capitalized on a late meltdown by Taiwan to score four runs in the eighth inning.
Taiwan’s Lo Chia Jen hit Kang Jung-ho with a pitch in the eighth with the bases loaded to tie the score at 3-3, before Na Sung-bum’s grounder brought across the go-ahead run and Hwang Jae-gyun smacked a two-run single to make it 6-3.
South Korea, which also beat Taiwan in the 2010 final in Guangzhou Frans Nielsen Hoodie , has now won four of the six baseball golds since the sport was introduced to the Games in 1994.
Wang Yihan defeated Chinese teammate Li Xuerui 2-1 to win gold in badminton women’s singles. Indonesia won the badminton men’s doubles gold.
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KABUL, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Afghan Taliban militants are increasingly relying on deadly suicide bombing to challenge the government as Saturday witnessed two such attacks in one day in an increasing trend.
At least four people were killed and seven others injured in these separate attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Afghan observers believe that the Taliban militants, who have speeded up fighting against government forces, would increase suicide bombings as lethal weapons to inflict more casualties.
As a result they could defame the government for failing to check insurgency.
On Saturday afternoon, such a bombing rocked the relatively peaceful Jalalabad city, about 120 km east of national capital Kabul, killing two people and injuring four others.
A terrorist who tied explosive device to his body blew himself up next to a vehicle of an Afghan army, killing one person and injuring four others, all of them are civilians.
The attacker himself was also killed in the blast, an official said.
Earlier on the day, a similar suicide attack in Qalat city, capital of the restive Zabul province, left two people including the attacker dead and injured three others, all civilians, police confirmed.
""A suicide bombing rocked Qalat city at around 01:45 p.m. local time today killing two people including the attacker and a civilian on the spot and injured three more civilians,"" Deputy Zabul provincial police chief Jilani Khan told Xinhua.
Although Taliban militants have yet to claim responsibility, officials blame them for these attacks.
It has always been civilians who bear the brunt of war in conflict-stricken Afghanistan.
More than 1,600 civilians had been killed and at least 3,560 injured in the first half of this year in different parts of the country, according to a report released by the UN mission in Afghanistan in late July.