BEIJING, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A report from People’s Daily: Among the 40 sports at the Hangzhou Asian Games, nine are non-Olympic, including mind sports go, chess, bridge, and e-sports, martial arts jujitsu, Kurash, and karate, as well as squash, cricket, sepak takraw, kabaddi, Wushu, dragon boat, and softball.
Photo shows a women’s kabaddi game between Nepal and Bangladesh at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Photo by Han Xiaoming/People’s Daily)
Many of these events carry distinct Asian characteristics and…
