China solidified its dominance this Sunday at the XX Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with 114 gold medals and nearly 200 in total, compared to the 33 gold medals obtained by Japan so far.

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By 7:30 p.m. local time (10:30 GMT), the Chinese delegation had accumulated a total of 191 medals, with victories this Sunday such as the one starring Chen Jia and Chen Yiwen in the women’s synchronized 3-meter diving event.

Japan, which for its part already has 142 medals in total, won three street ‘skateboarding’ medals, but gold eluded the country that has dominated this discipline in the Olympic Games.

At the time of the cut, the finals of several disciplines remained to be played, including the women’s long jump final and the men’s baseball final between South Korea and Japan.

China leads the medal table with 119 gold, 48 silver and 38 bronze medals, followed by Japan (37-61-58) and South Korea (20-23-39) after the eighth day’s competitions at the 2026 Asian Games. pic.twitter.com/hNooF6m2NP

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China leading with a total of 194 medals (115 gold, 45 silver and 34 bronze), followed by Japan with 145 medals and South Korea with 79. It is also mentioned that, at the time of the cut, important finals were still to be played, such as the women’s long jump and men’s baseball between South Korea and Japan.

This edition of the Games has been heavily criticized. Complaints about a lack of accommodation for athletes, transport errors, and other logistical failures during the ongoing Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games led to an apology this Saturday from the Secretary General of the Organizing Committee, Satoshi Murate.

“Errors have occurred with regard to accommodation and transport, which may be due to various reasons, but regardless of the cause, the responsibility for providing the service rests solely with us and I would like to sincerely apologize for the errors that have occurred,” Murate said at a press conference.

The Secretary General stated that the Committee is “thoroughly” investigating the causes to ensure they are not repeated, and affirmed that the increase in the number of athletes makes it “difficult to provide adequate service.”

The twentieth edition of the Asian Games, the largest sporting competition on the continent and which has a record of more than 11,000 athletes from 45 countries, began last Saturday in Japan’s Aichi prefecture and its capital, Nagoya, in central Japan.

This competition, which will end on October 4, has been marred since its inception by criticism from delegations from several participating countries due to the lack of available accommodation for athletes.

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