UAE’s Alia Saeed runs to gold medal in women’s 10,000m at Asian Games

INCHEON, South Korea // Alia Saeed ran a personal best to win the UAE’s first gold medal at the Asian Games in the women’s 10,000 metres yesterday. Saeed, 20, led a breakaway trio with five laps to go at Incheon’s Asiad Main Stadium, comfortably holding off China’s Ding Changgin and Ayumi Hagiwara of Japan to claim gold. Her winning time of 31 minutes, 51.86 seconds was the fastest of her career – shaving nearly 50 seconds off the time she ran to win silver last year at the Asian Athletics Championships – and she will go...