China's Olympic water polo medal hope no longer impossible
26/5/2008 17:07
Chinese National Women's Water Polo Team has made great progress, and the
Olympic gold medal dream is no longer impossible to realize, said Juan Jane
Giralt, coach of the national team recently.
"I understand that Chinese
people are not very familiar with water polo, and that China's water polo team
was built up for not a long time. Six month ago when I came in Tianjin , East
China, the team was far away from their dream of taking the gold medal in the
Olympic Games, but now the team shows that they have made great progress. The
Olympic gold is no longer impossible to get, and we are on the way towards it,"
said Giralt last weekend during an Asia-Oceania tournament of the FINA World
League women's water polo in Tianjin.
Giralt believed that the problem with
China now is that the members of the team are too young and in short of
experience. He hoped they can think much and accumulate experience in the games
before the Beijing Olympics.
Although China lost to Australia by 9-11 and
10-11 in two games, it won over Japan twice and China's second-string team in
the first round. China has taken 7 scores now, and reached the next series of
the FINA World League women's waterpolo campaign.
Xinhua
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