Shifting sands of Sanya at Asian Beach Games: Where grit is all you have

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On the flight from Shanghai to the resort city of Sanya, I found myself wrestling with a bit of an internal debate. Was I actually looking forward to the postcard-perfect sun, surf, and sand of Hainan Island, or was I truly ready for the intensity of the first Asian Beach Games I had ever covered?As