Billiards returns to the Asian Games How far is it from the Olympics?

In the past weekend, the WST Pro series continued the first round of the group stage. High-ranking players such as Williams and Selby have come up with good forms to pass the test. It is regrettable that O'Brien and Davidson missed 147 consecutively.

Compared with the tepid WST Pro series, the return of billiards to the Asian Games is more exciting news this weekend. In the 2030 Doha Asian Games, billiards will become the official event of the Olympic Games. No specific event settings have been announced at present, but snooker, American and Kailun are expected to have a place.

Billiards entered the Asian Games for the first time in 1998, and then successively entered the Asian Games in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Except in 1998, the Chinese delegation had outstanding performances in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Asian Games. The Asian Games is of special significance to Ding Junhui, a Chinese brother. At the Asian Games in 2002, when he was 15 years old at the time, he won the individual snooker championship. This was the beginning of his attention to the Chinese people and the first time that he aroused domestic public opinion. A big discussion on the mode of abandoning learning and practicing.

Four years later, Ding Junhui, who holds three ranking champions, is in the limelight. He, Liang Wenbo and Tian Pengfei won three gold medals in snooker. After another four years, Ding Junhui lost to his old rival Fu Jiajun and failed to achieve his three consecutive personal championships. Pan Xiaoting finally won the long-awaited 9-ball individual gold medal and completed the final puzzle of his career.

In recent years, billiards has been working hard to join the Olympic Games, but it has repeatedly failed from Tokyo to Paris. We have no way of judging how much the return of billiards to the Asian Games will help their ultimate goal of "entering the Olympics", but if billiards can stably become an event in the Asian Games, there will be another goal for Chinese billiards. So the question is, billiards have all returned to the Asian Games. When can they enter the National Games?