Valerie Adams may be the most dominant woman in track and field, but that doesn t mean she s running out of goals.

For instance: maintaining her dominance.

Girls are out there training and busting their guts to hunt me down, and that s great,” said Adams, who will open her IAAF Diamond League season in Doha on Friday and compete in the 2014 adidas Grand Prix in NYC on June 14. That s what it s supposed to be like. I m going out every competition fighting tooth and nail to try to stay on top for as long as possible.”

Adams, 29, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time IAAF World Champion (indoors and outdoors) in the shot put. The New Zealander also had eight of the 10 longest throws in the world last year, and has been ranked #1 in the world for eight of the past nine years.

As if that s not sufficient, she also has not lost a competition in more than three years, a streak of 46 straight victories going back to August 22, 2010—the longest current winning streak in the sport.

If I can hit 50, I d be pretty stoked,” said Adams today on an IAAF media teleconference from her training base in Switzerland.

Coming off surgery last September on her right knee, which over the years had sustained cartilage damage, and on her left ankle, Adams has picked up right where she left off, winning her first three competitions of the year—including her third World Indoor title.

At the London Olympics, it appeared that Adams streak was over when she took the silver medal behind Nadzeya Ostapchuk, of Belarus, until a test for performance-enhancing drugs came back positive soon afterward and Adams was promoted to 2012 Olympic Champion. Ostapchuk was given a four-year ban, less than the lifetime exile some had expected for her second offense.

While Adams immediate response was outrage, as expressed on Twitter, she said today: It is what it is. I ve moved on.”

Asked if she had ever been tempted by illegal performance enhancers, and how she managed to compete as a clean athlete, Adams answered: I manage to be a clean athlete because I want to be a clean athlete.”

She also wants another Olympic title, and plans to be in Rio along with half a dozen others—including Jamaica s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, also set to compete in the adidas Grand Prix—hoping to become the first woman to win three individual gold medals in the sport of track and field.

That s the ultimate goal. But first will come a return to NYC, where she set the meet record (20.60 meters/67 feet, 7 inches) in 2012 and where she is looking forward to doing some damage both at Icahn Stadium and at Lane Bryant.

Shopping!” exclaimed the 6 4” Adams with a huge laugh, when asked what she most looks forward to in NYC. I do love New York a lot. New York is New York, it s 24 hours, there s always something going on. Obviously I am there to compete but I do love to go to Times Square and I do love to shop. Chicks like me, a little bit taller, it s really hard for us to find good clothes and in the U.S. and New York I find some pretty cool stuff.

[But] competing is #1,” she said. Put that out there, OK?”