After winning several medals on Tuesday, the karate squad went quiet on the last day of competition on Wednesday.
For the women, Liu Ya-li narrowly won her quarter-final match against Syria's Aghadeer Haydar 8-7 before losing to her Uzbek opponent 2-5 in the semi-finals and Macau's Paula Carion 0-2.
It was the Iranians who gave the men's team trouble, with Hsu Hsiang-ming eliminated by Saeid Farrokhi in a 2-4 loss in the 70kg division, while Jasem Modami Vishkaie beat Huang Hao-yun 2-1 in the 75kg category. Huang went on to take two victories in the repechage round, but fell short of a medal with a 2-5 loss to Kazakhstan's Shattyk Kazhymukanov. In the 80kg division, Shen Chia-hao lost both his matches to Japanese and Uzbek opponents.
The men's basketball team wrapped up its Asian Games yesterday by playing Kazakhstan for seventh place.
However they didn't appear to have much left in the tank for their eighth game of the tournament, falling to Kazakhstan 100-74. They had beaten Kazakhstan in a two-point game earlier in the tournament. The team finishes the Asian games with a 3-5 record.
Meanwhile Lu Hsin placed sixth and Lu En-tien placed eighth in the women's three-meter springboard diving.
The men's field hockey team, meanwhile, finished in eighth place after a 1-5 loss to Bangladesh yesterday. It has been a trying tournament for the squad, which has scored only three goals over six games to give it a 1-5 record during the Asian Games. Its only win was a 1-0 victory over Hong Kong in the first game.
China coach moans
China's softball coach had a dig at the standard of officiating and the rules being used in Doha after his side missed out on a gold medal match with Japan yesterday.
Michael Bastian complained that the rules being applied were not consistent and would hurt the game as it tries to keep its position as an Olympic sport.
"The officiating in Doha was completely different than the world championships in Beijing," he said after his team crashed 10-7 to Taiwan. "Our pitchers gave up 10 runs, true. We have the best pitchers in the world. In the world championship we had the same pitchers. Something changed drastically from Beijing to Doha."
"We had International Softball Confederation [rules and umpires] in Beijing and Softball Asia Confederation here. I'm not blaming the wins and losses on the officiating, but the strike zones were completely different," he said. "I do think it hurts the game and there should be consistency worldwide."
China were favorites to win the match but Taiwan overcame two four-run deficits to win.
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