Though the curtains of the 19th Asian Games will rise on September 23, the football event gets underway today, with Bangladesh playing against cross-border rivals Myanmar at the Xiaoshan Sports Centre Stadium at 2:00pm Bangladesh time.

North Korean athletes have travelled to China for the Asian Games, state media said, signalling an end to the country's more than three-year isolation from global multisport competitions.

Bangladesh women's football team captain Sabina Khatun is excited about the prospect of playing against former World champions and Asian Games winners Japan in debut Asian Games appearance IN in Hangzhou, China next week.

The Bangladesh women's cricket team embarked on their Asian Games journey on Sunday night, having undergone a camp in Sylhet where fitness, apart from skills, was high on the agenda. The team left for China's Hangzhou and will play from the quarterfinal stage as one of the top-ranked ICC T20I outfits.

With only nine days left for the football event of the Hangzhou Asian Games in China to get underway, the Bangladesh men’s Olympic team began their preparation Monday at the Bashundhara Kings Arena with the hope of achieving their best-ever results.

While the women's side have been undergoing camp in Sylhet as part of their preparations for the Asian Games in September, the men's side still have to contend with fragmentation brought on by the Asia Cup and the World Cup assignments for the national team.

Top Indian sprinter Dutee Chand has been banned from competition for four years after she failed two doping tests, local media reported Friday.

Hockey player Rezaul Karim Babu shared his and the team’s goals for the forthcoming Asian Games, and his expectations from a sport that has left its heydays long behind during an interview with The Daily Star.   

The Bangladesh Football Federation on Tuesday announced a 22-member women’s squad for the upcoming 19th Asian Games.

In the last edition of the Asian Games in 2018, the men in red and green reached the second round for the first time after beating Qatar in their last group match.

The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) is set to hold the Asian Games Fun Run in Dhaka on Wednesday aiming to promote and raise awareness about the upcoming Asian Games. 

Bangladesh Football Federation's vice-president Kazi Nabil Ahmed said they are trying to have the men's football team included in the contingent of the Asian Games, which will take place in Hangzhou, China in September this year.

Kazi Salahuddin, the four-time president of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), has had his long-cherished dream fulfilled as the SAFF Club Championship is finally taking shape.

After working with the country’s budding gymnasts for over two months, Korean coach Cho Sung Dong realised that Bangladeshi gymnasts and the coaches not only lack basic techniques but also trail in their thought processes toward the game.