Two Koreas have decided to send joint teams to the 2006 Asian Games in Doha and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing following a three-hour meeting held on the sidelines of the East Asian Games on Tuesday.

MACAO, Nov. 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Two Koreas have decided to send joint teams to the 2006 Asian Games in Doha and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing following a three-hour meeting held on the sidelines of the East Asian Games on Tuesday.

    Away from the negotiation table and back to the medal table, China pulled further away with 17 more golds to make it 48 in total.

    Macao is in a distant second with seven golds, followed by South Korea with five and Japan with three.

    Kim Jung-haeng, vice president of (South) Korean Olympic Council (KOC), released a joint statement Tuesday evening after concluding a working-level discussion with his DPRK's counterpart.

    The reprsentatives of the KOC and DPRK's Olympic Committee agreed to hold a meeting on Dec. 7 in the DPRK south-western city of Keasung to further discuss the details of forming a single team,such as the selection process of athletes, according to the statement.

    The Keasung meeting will be between vice presidents of the two Koreas' Olympic committees, said the statement.

    Kim said he was optimistic to the prospect of forming a trans-Korean delegation.

    Two Koreas have held joint marches at opening ceremonies of international sports events for six times.

    In September, two sides reached a provisional agreement on fielding unified teams for the Asian Games at talks arranged by the Olympic Council of Asia in the Chinese city of Guangzhou.

    They agreed "in principle" to form unified teams for the 2006 Asiad and a joint soccer team for friendly matches with Brazil next spring.

    The Koreas fielded unified teams for the world table tennis championships and an international youth soccer competition, both in 1991.

    Back to venues, China failed to sweep the board in athletics because it didn't want to.

    China claimed eight out of nine gold medals on the first day of track and field competition and nine from diving, gymnastics and weightlifting.

    Be spectacled Hu Kai won the men's 100m title for China and his compatriot Qin Wangping became the fastest woman in the games with a not-so-fast time.

    China didn't send runners to the men's 10,000m, in which the last finisher picked up the bronze medal and Japanese Yuki Nakamura won the gold.

    In a rare scene in an international event, only three runners entered the race and Nakamura struggled home in 31 minutes and 59.69 seconds, a result even slower than that of the 17th finisher in the Chinese National Games last month.

    South Korean Lee Du-haeng snatched the silver in 31:59.72 and Macao's Lao Kua Nun took the bronze in 34.55.56.

    The men's 10,000m bronze medalist couldn't have made it to the women's top three, in which DPR Korean Paek Hyan-gok finished third in 34:53.06, 2.5 seconds faster than Lao.

    Chinese Bao Guiying nabbed the women's 10,000m gold in 32:35.07,with Hiromi Ominami of Japan second in 32.36.62.

    "Flying Spectacles Man" Hu Kai, nicknamed for his ever-present glasses, won over 100m in 10.40 seconds, a far cry from his personal best 10.27.

    Japanese Shingo Kawabata came second in 10.54, ahead of Chinese Taipei's Wang Shih-wen in 10.63.

    "I felt good about the victory but the time is not good because I just competed in the National Games," said Hu.

    The 23-year-old Hu jumped to fame in his international debut inthe world university games in Izmir, Turkey, in August, when he clocked 10.30 to win the 100m.

    The women's 100m crown went to China's Qin Wangping, who clocked a mediocre time of 11.65 seconds, yet good enough to beat teammate Shu Yan (11.76) and Japan's Ayumi Suzuki (11.95).

    China also won the men's discus throw (Wu Tao, 61.74m), women's shot put (Li Meiju, 18.12m), high jump (Jing Xuezhu, 1.85m), hammer throw (Zhang Wenxiu, 72.23) and triple jump (Huang Qiuyan, 14.08m).

    Olympic dual gold medalist Guo Jingjing helped China clean-sweep Tuesday's diving golds as she combined with Li Ting to win the women's 3m synchronized springboard with 337.20 points, 54.06 ahead of second-placed Japanese Misako Yamashita/Ryoko Nishi.

    Jiang Lishuang won the women's 10m platform, Xu Hao/Chen Jiameng won the men's 3m synchronized springboard and Li Yue the men's 10m platform.

    China continued to dominate weightlifting, grabbing three more golds from the men's 79kg class (Lu Changliang, 346kg), the men's 85kg (Jiang Hairong, 360kg) and the women's 63kg (Liu Xia, 235kg).

    Chinese gymnasts walked away with two all-around titles, with Feng Jing winning the men's (57.611 points) and Zhang Nan the women's (37.947).

    South Korea showed off their skills in bowling, winning the men's doubles through Choi Jong-in/Kang Hee-won, and the women's doubles through Choi Ji-na/Kim Yeau-jin.

    In soft tennis, Japanese duo Harumi Gyokusen and Ayumi Ueshima won the women's doubles and Wang Chun-yen of Chinese Taipei took the men's singles. Enditem