Japan's Ko Ochiai ran to victory in the men's 800-meter gold medal Tuesday at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in a meet-record 1 minute, 44.48 seconds.Ochiai shaved nearly a second off the previous Asian Games record of 1:45.45 set by Iran's Sajad Moradi in 2010.The 20-year-old Ochiai, who finished 0.62 ahead of silver medalist Ali Amirian of Iran, is the first Japanese athlete to win the event in 64 years."I was aiming for the 43-second range and a personal best -- so in that sense, the time didn't quite materialize -- but since this was a race where the outcome was what mattered most, the fa…READ FULL ARTICLE
