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- India will send 503 athletes to the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, held from September 19 to October 4, competing across 43 sports.
- The Games will include sports less familiar to Indian audiences, such as Teqball, Kurash, Soft Tennis, Sepak Takraw and Sport Climbing.
- Teqball, which combines football skills with table tennis on a curved table, will make its Asian Games debut as a medal sport with three Indian representatives.
- Kurash, a Central Asian jacket-wrestling sport where ground fighting is not permitted, earned India two medals at the 2018 Asian Games.
- India is yet to win an Asian Games medal in Soft Tennis, and the 2026 edition offers another chance to end that drought.
What to watch next
- How the three Teqball players fare in the sport's Asian Games debut
- Whether India's Kurash wrestlers can add to the two medals won in 2018
- Whether the Soft Tennis squad can win India's first medal in the sport
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