Asian Games 2026 live: Indian athletes enter September 22 chasing the contingent's first gold medal of the Aichi-Nagoya Asiad.

The Indian contingent’s hunt for their first gold medal at the Asian Games in Aichi Nagoya enters its fourth day on Tuesday. At the end of Monday, India had six medals, none of them gold. But the Indian’s women’s cricket team, who face Sri Lanka in a repeat of the recently concluded Women’s Asia Cup final, could change that early in the morning. Also chasing a gold will be the 10m air rifle shooting pairing of Parth Mane and Elavenil Valarivan, who will be competing in the mixed team event.

Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games organisers on Monday postponed the equestrian eventing competition in Tokyo to Tuesday due to the approaching Typhoon Dujuan. The organisers put up the updated schedule with Eventing Dressage and Eventing Jumping starting on Tuesday.

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Here’s a look at what’s coming up today:

Soft Tennis (5.30 am): Aadhya Tiwari in Women’s Singles

Sepaktakraw (5.30 am): Men’s Team in Regu vs Malaysia

Badminton (6 am): Indian women’s team comprising of PV Sindhu, Unnati Hooda, Devika Sihag, Tanvi Sharma, Isharani Baruah, Treesa, Gayatri, Kavipriya, Simran, and Tanisha vs Japan in the quarter-finals

Shooting (6.15 am): Parth Mane and Elavenil Valarivan in the 10m air rifle mixed team event

Wushu: Hanjabam Langlentombi Devi in Women’s Nanquan & Nandao

Shooting (6.30 am): Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill in the second day of the skeet shooting men’s individual and team event

Shooting (6.30 am): Parinaaz Dhaliwal, Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan in the second day of the skeet shooting women’s individual and team event

Table tennis (6.30 am): Indian table tennis team of Sreeja Akula, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Diya Chitale, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Syndrela Das

Fencing (6.30 am): Sanasam Hemash Singh in Men’s foil individual

Kabaddi (7:15 am) Indian men’s team in a group game against Republic of Korea

Shooting (8.25 am): Parth Mane and Elavenil Valarivan in 10m air rifle mixed team shooting

Cricket (10.30 am): Indian women’s team vs Sri Lanka in women’s final

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In Japan’s Asian Games, China’s growing footprint — on field & behind the scenes

China arrived at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games as the continent’s dominant sporting power. With 38 medals, including 23 gold, they are already leading the medal table, a position they have occupied at every edition since 1982.

But there is another Chinese dominance at these Games, one that is less visible. Japan is hosting the Games, but China’s corporate presence is spread across different layers of the event, much of it away from the competition arenas.

A Shanghai-based company is the host broadcaster, another Chinese company is involved in the opening and closing ceremonies, and there are others that have been roped in for supply of temporary power, venue technology, LED screens and sporting equipment.

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