Yoshihide Kiryu and Yuki Koike, two of Japan's top sprinters, failed to reach the men's 100-meter final at the Asian Games on Saturday, the second day for athletics. Later in the eight-man 100 final, China's Xie Zhenye stormed to the gold medal in 9.97 seconds, 0.05 ahead of Thai runner-up Puripol Boonson. Malaysia's Muhammad Azeem bin Mohd Fahmi rounded out the podium an additional 0.09 back. "I've waited for this gold since my first Asian Games at Incheon 2014," the 30-year-old Xie said. "Heaven rewards those who wait.

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