Tong Lixin Quotations

We did have an impeding during the race and we respected the judges' decision.

Since it is hard to wholly change the skills of adult skaters, we should train the youth from the very beginning to learn the techniques from the South Koreans. If everything goes well, the next generation of skaters may have more chance to catch up with the world.

We have to admit that besides Wang Meng, there are no more talented skaters in the country right now. We still have to find such new competitors to keep China among the top-level countries in the short-track field.

While claiming the gold medals at the Winter Olympics four years ago, our gap with South Korea, the world's leading country of the sport, was small, but now the gap between the two countries has grown bigger and bigger, especially in the aspect of techniques.

We are very competitive in the women's events, but that doesn't mean our athletes can definitely win gold medals.

Although we haven't found talented skaters in China like Ahn and Jin, I believe that from step-by-step training, new genius will come out. Short-track speed skating needs the efforts from generation to generation. We will do further research on the regularity of the sport and try to resume the success for China.

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.