15th Asiad
Dec 15 2006, Yashpal

The procession of 15th Asian Games steadily came to its end today on 15th Dec. in Doha. Over again the prior day i.e. 14th Dec. was in the name of China as it dominated all other contenders in octet of games with fetching 8 Golds in various events on...

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