Nepal’s archers chase Asian Games medal amid crumbling facilities and equipment shortages

The target boards are rotting away. The tarpaulin put up to provide shelter from the rain is torn. And beneath it, Nepal’s archers are training with a dream of winning a medal at the 20th Asian Games.

For athletes preparing to represent Nepal at the Asian Games , the training ground at the Nepal Police Academy in Maharajgunj is far from the setting one might expect for a national team preparing for one of Asia’s biggest sporting events.