Modi received the Asian Games contingent at the ground where the Games began

Punjab, Oct. 15 -- Narendra Modi met India's Asian Games contingent at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in Delhi on Thursday afternoon - athletes, coaches, support staff, Indian Olympic Association officials and sports ministry representatives, after a Games in which India finished fourth with 85 medals and 21 golds.

The venue is the detail

Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium hosted the first Asian Games in 1951. Choosing it to receive the 2026 contingent is a deliberate piece of symmetry: the ground where the Asian Games began, used to welcome back the team from the Games' seventy-fifth year.

It is a field hockey ground with a capacity of 16,200, owned and operated by the Sports Authority of India, and named for the player who won ...