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China's red parade continues on track and field
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-11-02 21:16
China put in a near-perfect track and field performance at the East Asian
Games, falling just one victory short of a nine-event clean-sweep.
Chinese
triple-jumper Huang Qiu-yan clinches the gold medal at the East Asian
Games in Macau. China put in a near-perfect track and field performance at
the East Asian Games, falling just one victory short of a nine-event
clean-sweep. [AFP] | Double gold in the men's and
women's 100 metres along with wins in the women's 10,000m, high jump,
triple-jump, shot-put and hammer emphasised China's dominance of the Games,
which have been a one-team show from the outset.
Only Japan's Yuki Nakamura could stem the red tide with victory in the men's
10,000m. China also won the men's discus as it stretched its tally of gold
medals to 48 from a possible 67. No other team has made double figures.
Bespectacled student Hu Kai made a name for himself with victory in the day's
blue ribbon event, the men's 100m, despite clocking a relatively slow 10.40
seconds.
Hu, an economics student at Tsinghua University, shrugged off a pair of false
starts as he powered to the front from 30 metres and finished two metres ahead
of Japan's Shingo Kawabata.
"The false starts helped me because it enabled me to find my rhythm out of
the blocks," said Hu, nicknamed 'Flying Spectacles Man' by Chinese media after
his silver medal at the National Games.
"The time wasn't important. I just wanted to win the gold medal," said
23-year-old Hu.
Qin Wangping won the women's 100m in another slow time, 11.65, complaining of
tiredness after last month's National Games where she won both the 100m and
200m.
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