Chinese national gymnastics team head coach Huang Yubin said that China aim to grab at least 12 of the 14 golds to be awarded at the coming Doha Asian Games.
China and Japan have been engaged in a long-time tug of war in the swimming pool.
Led by former world champion Lin Yi- chun and young potential Huang Yi-ling, Chinese Taipei shooters have set a modest two-gold target at the Asian Games.
Fatigue and flu are the obstacles hindering gymnasts from a clean sweep at Doha, said head coach Huang.
China are unlikely to relinquish their 24-year grip on the top of the Asian Games medals table despite using Doha to give their younger athletes big-event experience ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
The triple world gymnastics champion Yang Wei from China arrived in Doha on Monday for the 15th Asian Games, and he held high confidence to repeat his glory at Aarhus Gymnastic worlds.
Following easy victory in their preliminary group of the Doha Asian Games men's basketball tournament, Kazakhstan now had an ambitious plan to upset Asian champions China in their encounter in the second-round competitions.
The Chinese women's table tennis team won't repeat Busan mistakes in the Doha Asian Games, head coach said after a training session at the Al Arabi Indoor Hall.
Nine out of top ten Asian female players are set to star in the 15th Asian Games tennis tournament to be running from December 4 to 14 at Doha, Qatar.
China's Doha-bound Olympic champion Guo Jingjing has said that she will retire from diving after the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Chen Qing, one of the new recruiters to China's national table tennis team for the 15th Asian Games at Doha, expressed her aspiration for the gold medal here after arrival.