China's Yu, 13, wins hat-trick of golds at Asian Games

The nation's 13-year-old swimming sensation Yu Zidi completed a hat-trick of Asian Games golds on Wednesday -- but will go home with "some regrets". The school girl powered home to win the 400m individual medley (IM) in an Asian Games-record four minutes and 28.56 seconds, making it three golds from three events in Tokyo. She also won the 200m butterfly and 200m individual medley, also in Asian Games-record times. Yu is shaping up to be a major medal threat at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, but she said she still has room to improve before then. "I gained a lot from these Asian Games but there were also some regrets," she said after the race. "I'll go back and keep reviewing what I didn't do well, and I hope I can do better next time." Yu's time beat the previous 400m IM Asian Games record set by China's Ye Shiwen in 2014 by almost 4.5 seconds. It was the fourth-fastest time in the world this year, with world record-holder Summer McIntosh owning the top three. Yu has dominated this week in Tokyo but she stood in wide-eyed amazement when a reporter suggested she had made it look easy. "Definitely not," she replied. "It didn't feel easy at all. It...