Updated On: 09 October, 2023 07:57 AM IST | Hangzhou | Ashwin Ferro
The focus of the night was the athletes and the volunteers without whom this massive event would be impossible.

Veteran India hockey goalkeeper and flag-bearer PR Sreejesh leads the Indian contingent during the closing ceremony yesterday. Pic/PTI
Given how Team India finished the Asian Games here with medals galore—28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze, totalling a record 107—their athletes would have wished these Games continued for a couple of more weeks.
However, at a glittering closing ceremony, once again enhanced by digital brilliance just like the spectacular opening gala a fortnight back, the curtains came down on the 19th edition of the continental sporting spectacle at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium here on Sunday.