Beijing, 11 August – Comments from China’s XU Rui (CHN) and ZHANG Yangyang (CHN) after winning the gold in Junior Women’s Double Sculls.

XU Rui (CHN)

On the race:

“Basically it was ok, but not the best. As we tend to start slow, we trained especially on out start, hoping to improve in the final. We still made some mistakes and lagged behind over the first 500 meters, and did not catch up until we passed the 1250 meter mark.”

On strategy:

“We focused while racing and concentrated on rowing hard. We told ourselves not to panic”

ZHANG Yangyang (CHN)

On future plans:

“I will continue to train hard and treat every training session as a competition. I do not have specific plans for next year yet. Now I will focus on training.”

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