India, Oct. 5 -- Olympic champion shooter Abhinav Bindra has congratulated Indian athletes for their Asian Games performance but urged the country to move with greater urgency in strengthening its high-performance ecosystem with the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics less than two years away.

India finished fourth on the medal table in Nagoya with 85 medals, including 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze.

The tally was lower than India's record 106-medal haul, including 28 golds, at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

"Congratulations to every Indian athlete and to Team India on the Asian Games. A Games campaign is never just the few days we see on television. It is years of early mornings, injuries, doubts, missed occasions and countless hours of work,...