China eyes dominance in athletics at Asian Games

BEIJING - Chinese Athletics Administrative Center chief Feng Shuyong has vowed the national team will continue its dominance at the Asian Games by topping the medal tally and the overall rankings in November.

"The goal is to be No 1. That's for sure," Feng said in Shandong on Sunday at the close of the National Athletics Championships, which also served as the national qualifiers for the upcoming Asian Games in Guangzhou.

China's athletics team has topped the medal tally at the continental event since the 1986 Seoul Games. It finished 14 gold medals ahead of the second-place nation at the 2006 Doha Games, just as it did four years earlier in Busan.