New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- The first medals of the 20th Asian Games are already around athletes' necks in Aichi-Nagoya. India opened with two shooting silvers on Sunday. Suchika Tariyal is guaranteed another after reaching the mixed martial arts semi-finals. Japan's Takumi Hojo took the first gold in the men's triathlon. The hardware they collected is not a standard disc. It was built to look like something that broke and then came back together.

The official idea is the Games slogan, "Imagine One Asia." The organisers say Asia once sat as one, then split into many languages and cultures. Sport is the reunion. "The medal expresses the idea of coming together again through sport, represented through both its surface finish and form," the offi...