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Wong sets sights on road gold

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Veteran eager to end Asian Games career on a high note - but says it's getting tougher

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When Wong Kam-po won the Asian junior road race championships in 1991, he had already set his sights on winning an Asian Games road race medal - and he made it seven years later when he clinched the gold medal in Bangkok.

Eight years on, the 33-year-old cyclist wants to end his Asian Games career on a high note.

'This should be my last Asian Games and I really want to achieve some good results,' said Wong, who will retire after the Beijing Olympics. 'But it is getting tougher and tougher compared to my first Asian Games back in 1994. Over the years, I have become a target at major games and I have to give 110 per cent if I want to win.'

The talented rider should have won the road race title on his Asian Games debut in 1994. Wong came fourth, just behind the three medallists from Kazakhstan who joined the Asian family after the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 90s.

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Bangkok 1998 was a success but Wong could not repeat the feat in Pusan four years later when he had to settle for a bronze in the road race and another bronze in the track.

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