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Several teams including Chinese Taipei were vocally welcomed by the spectators, but none more than the home team, whose athletes are expected to dominate the medals table once again.
Several participants were seen competing with one another to click selfies with the nine-month-old Stalina, daughter of Kazakh fencer Pistova Yulina.
Like the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, local organisers will hope Hangzhou can showcase the nation's strength and that home athletes will put China top of the medals table as they have done at the last 10 editions.
Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur has cancelled his scheduled visit to China for the Games.
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To overcome communication barriers, the volunteers in Hangzhou are armed with an AI-powered translation tool.
Keralite K P Rahul's first-half equaliser from an acute angle was the only silver lining for India.
Korean Central News Agency did not mention the size of the team or athletes' travel routes.
The Chinese, who have topped the medals table at every Asian Games since 1982, should repeat that feat in Hangzhou, the director of the national sports bureau, Gao Zhidan, said at the launch.
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