China gymnastics women's coach unhappy with Olympic draw

TIANJIN, China, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Lu Shanzhen, coach of the Chinese gymnastics women's team, expressed his unhappiness about the draw of the women's team competitions for the Beijing Olympic Games gymnastics here on Thursday.

The draw was made here on Thursday during the finals of the 2008 Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) World Cup.

According to the draw, the Chinese gymnastics women's team, will play in qualification 1 with Romania, and mixed groups 3 and 4.

"It is the worst draw!" Lu expressed his disappointment after the draw. "We are in the first qualification and will start with balance beam."

"It will be a big challenge for us," added the coach.

Usually comparing with the others, gymnasts don't like qualification 1, since it starts in the morning which may have many disadvantages for the results, like lower temperature, shorter warm-up time, fewer audience, and so on.

"The draw was quite unlucky," said Cheng Fei, winner of vault at the 2007 Gymnastics World Championships. "We should work harder."