Flash Quotes from the Women's Team Finals

Comments from CHOI Hyeonju, KI Bo Bae, LEE Sung Jin and coach JANG Young Sool (KOR) after Korea's 210-209 victory against China in the gold medal match.   CHOI Hyeonju (KOR) – gold   On her average ranking round performance (21st place and 20 points behind her teammates):
"I had a shoulder injury for the ranking round so it was harder. It was better today but I haven't given up for the individuals yet."   On her injury:
"I had a slight pain for a while so I went to a doctor and had a shot in the aching part of the injury. After that shot, I didn't feel right, so that's why I struggled in the ranking round. I am now taping that shoulder area so my individual round should be all right."   On the individual competition:
"Today I shot for my country, but in the individuals I will shoot for myself."   KI Bo Bae (KOR) – gold   On the last arrow:
"No, I wasn't nervous at all because if I do my best I know it will go in the gold."   On their order of shooting:
"LEE shot first because she is the brave one, but I shot the last because I have more experience."   On the fans at the venue and in Korea:
"We thank you so much for your support."   LEE Sung Jin (KOR) – gold   On preparing for the individual competition:
"We will go away and do normal things but we will not put too much pressure on ourselves."   JANG Young Sool (KOR) – coach   On their performance:
"I feel so relieved now. CHOI (KOR) was the only problem I was thinking of because of the shoulder injury, but now that everything is done I feel grateful."   Comments from CHENG Ming (CHN), FANG Yuting (CHN) and XU Jing (CHN) the China team lost 210-209 to Korea in the gold medal match.   CHENG Ming (CHN) – silver   On winning a silver medal:
"I still feel very excited but, at the same time, it is a shame."   On competing against Korea:
"Competing against Korea is very good. Facing them is great experience for us."   FANG Yuting (CHN) – silver   On competing against Korea:
"Korea are a bit stronger than us but we are not afraid of them. We have our own beliefs and good experience and we hope to see them at the next Games. We will work even harder and strengthen ourselves in archery."   On attempting to retain the gold medal in the individual won by ZHANG Juanjuan (CHN) at Beijing 2008:
"Being able to compete on behalf of China is a great honour. I don't think about results, they will take care of themselves."   XU Jing (CHN) – silver   On competing against Korea:
"We do feel pressure competing with them, but we will keep fighting all the way."   Comments from Ren HAYAKAWA, Miki KANIE, Kaori KAWANAKA (JPN) after Japan's 209-207 bronze medal win over Russia.   Rene HAYAKAWA (JPN) – bronze   On their match against Korea:
"To be honest, before competing against Korea I thought I was going to win, but then we lost and I was regretful."   On archery in Japan:
"Our coach says archery sometimes is a matter of luck. I am the youngest in my team - I started archery only six years ago. Archery is not a very popular sport in Japan, we can start it only in high school." "In other countries, such as Korea, they can start at an earlier age so maybe they are 16 and they have been doing archery for 10 years. " "I would like it to be possible to start archery in primary school in Japan too. Since we won a medal at the Olympic Games I hope this will help to make archery more popular in Japan among children."   Miki KANIE (JPN) – bronze   On other sports more popular than archery in Japan:
"Compared to other major sports it may seem we are under less pressure but there are many people supporting us. We were not expected to win this medal so I hope this will be a good stimulation, a good opportunity to start archery, especially among children."   Kaori KAWANAKA (JPN) – bronze   On winning a medal at Lord's:
"I feel very honoured to have competed in this kind of place. I heard women are not allowed to enter some rooms so I am more honoured to have won here."   On what they talked about the night before the event:
"We did not talk about strategy. We told each other to give our best today. I think this will be the last competition we do together and so I told them to play it with a smile."   Source: ONS Edited by World Archery Communication