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Failure to meet target upsets SAT

Noppassorn Khunboonjan, left, and Weka Bhanubandh compete in the dinghy ILCA4 races.

The Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) is upset that its athletes failed to meet the minimum target of winning 15 gold medals at the 19th Asian Games which ended on Sunday in Hangzhou, China.

Ahead of the tournament, the sports associations with athletes at the Games predicted that they would bring home a total of 15-23 golds.

As it turned out, they could only claim 12 titles at Hangzhou 2022, which is better than their tally of 11 golds at the 2018 Games.

With 939 athletes, Thailand even had a larger contingent than hosts China.

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