{"id":263379,"date":"2026-09-19T06:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/asian-games-2026-live-manu-bhaker-pawan-sherawat-to-be-indias-flag-bearers-at-opening-ceremony-today\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T06:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T06:44:04","slug":"asian-games-2026-live-manu-bhaker-pawan-sherawat-to-be-indias-flag-bearers-at-opening-ceremony-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/19\/asian-games-2026-live-manu-bhaker-pawan-sherawat-to-be-indias-flag-bearers-at-opening-ceremony-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2026 LIVE: Manu Bhaker, Pawan Sherawat to be India&#8217;s flag-bearers at opening ceremony today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>At the previous Hangzhou Asiad, India had an impressive tally of 106 medals and was placed fourth behind China, Japan and South Korea. There is a significant drop in the number of Indian athletes, from 650-plus in 40 disciplines three years ago, following rationalisation, discouraging a mad rush because of the perks and money associated with the Asiad. Nevertheless, Indian sports authorities expect around 100 medals, which may noticeably improve the athlete-to-medal ratio.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/continental-glory-on-the-asian-games-2026\/article71480936.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full editorial here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/asian-games-2026-live-updates-opening-ceremony-september-19-2026\/article71483852.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the previous Hangzhou Asiad, India had an impressive tally of 106 medals and was placed fourth behind China, Japan and South Korea. There is a significant drop in the number of Indian athletes, from 650-plus in 40 disciplines three years ago, following rationalisation, discouraging a mad rush because of the perks and money associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[74199,76196,76195,76193,31169,31760,76194],"class_list":{"0":"post-263379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-asian-games-2026","9":"tag-asian-games-2026-india-flag-bearer","10":"tag-asian-games-latest-news","11":"tag-asian-games-live-updates","12":"tag-asian-games-opening-ceremony","13":"tag-india-at-asian-games","14":"tag-india-flag-bearer-asian-games"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}