Very few have watched sport in Qatar as closely as Joachim Krug.

Qatar volleyball team will fly to the Indonesian capital of Jakarta yesterday for the 18th edition of the Asian Games from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) after winning the AVC Cup for men, which concluded on Wednesday.

Qatar shooting and archery team ended their preparations before heading to the Indonesian capital Jakarta to participate in the 18th Asian Games, which will be held from August 18 to September 2.

China will be showing off an embarrassment of sporting riches, Indonesia will seek to prove its organisational capability and, equally importantly, the 18th Asian Games will offer a sneak peak into the future of the Olympics.

One of India’s best bets for an athletics gold at the upcoming Asian Games, Neeraj Chopra is determined to focus on the job at hand and not put extra pressure on himself.

The beefy Chinese has won three Olympic freestyle gold medals and is almost unstoppable when he’s in the mood.

Rags-to-riches teenage sprinter Lalu Zohri has given Indonesia an unexpected confidence boost as the Asian Games hosts look to pull off their first top-10 medals finish in decades.

Dutchman Robin Haase upset German fourth seed Alexander Zverev 5-7 6-5 7-5 at the Cincinnati Masters on Wednesday and Wimbledon winner Novak Djokovic cruised into the third round before rain interrupted play.

Amid speculation that Beauden Barrett’s place in the All Blacks side could be under threat, the flyhalf will find himself under increased scrutiny tomorrow when they face Australia in the Rugby Championship opener in Sydney.

London: England rugby player Danny Cipriani pleaded guilty yesterday to common assault and resisting arrest after an incident at a nightclub on Jersey which left a female police officer bruised.

World tennis chiefs yesterday approved a radical Davis Cup overhaul that will condense the 118-year-old worldwide showpiece into an 18-team, week-long event but critics blasted the changes as a “black day” for the sport.

There will not be a more fantastical sport plotline in our lives than Tiger Woods’s Thanksgiving in 2009, when the incandescent career and immaculate public image of the world’s most dominant and influential athlete came spectacularly undone in the dead of a Florida night.