Chinese swimmer Wu Shutong has taken Asian Games gold in the 10-kilometer race. She finished seconds ahead of her competition from Japan in the more-than two-hour race which she swam just days after her 18th birthday. Wu spent most of the race behind Japan’s Airi Ebina and her Chinese teammate Sun Jiake but was able to turn it up a notch near the end as Ebina started to slightly falter. Ebina took silver and Sun was the bronze-medal winner.
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Ebina said she was a “little disappointed” but still happy to have won the silver medal. “Before the race I had planned to take the lead for the whole race, and keep the peak form for myself,” she said. “It was unfortunate that I couldn’t keep it until the end, but I’m happy with the result.”feature 12,500 participants from 45 nations and territories — more than the 10,500 from about 200 delegations expected at next year’s Paris Olympics.
The sport features a team of 12 paddlers in long, narrow boats decorated with Chinese dragon heads, who row to the beat of a drummer in the bow, with a steerer in the stern to guide the boat.
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