CONTINENTAL TRIUMPH: Breaching 70 as India on course to highest medal haul

THE Hangzhou evening skies have been pretty dramatic to look at it over the last few days. The city of high rises with pockets of green everywhere, cools down rapidly in the evenings. By the time the locals occupy the 80,000 seater (Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium), you look skywards if you want to reel an Insta story.

- SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN

If India's medal tally was driven by the Fuyang Yinhu Shooting Ranges in the first week, the Olympic Stadium is unsurprisingly driving the push as the Games enters the business end. Now, they are on the 19th Asia Hangzh verge of overhauling two of the medal records (gold/overall) set at Jakarta-Palembang in 2018.