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Asian Games: An 11-Year-Old's Puyo Puyo Gold and Korea's Military-Exemption Stakes
At the Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games, 11-year-old Yuki Kurihara won e-sports 'Puyo Puyo' gold — the youngest champion at the Games and Japan's first e-sports gold — beating a 25-year-old South Korean in the final. A widely shared framing contrasted the grade-schooler with a Korean rival said to be chasing a military-service exemption, and a 5-0 baseball rout of pro-heavy Korea by Japan's corporate-league side fed the same Japan-Korea storyline. The finer details of the rival's stakes spread as story and remain unconfirmed.