Yang Yu: 'Legs Were Shaking Before Finals.'

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Yang Yu: 'Legs Were Shaking Before Finals.'

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Yang Yu, who broke the women's 800m freestyle relay world record with her Chinese teammates at the World Short-course swimming championships, said she could believe what she had done even one day after the victory.

"She said he legs were shaking before the relay finals, because she had swam twice 200m butterfly," He Xinzhong, Yang Yu's coach, told Xinhua at a telephone interview on Thursday.

"She was very happy to win the world title. It's a much better feeling than that when she won the silver medal in the 200m butterfly," He added.

Yang, 17, was the title holder of the 200 freestyle at the championships, competed in her first butterfly event, finishing two minutes and 6.10 seconds, only 0.34 seconds behind the winner Petria Thomas of Austrlia.

"I'm not surprise she won the silver," He said. "She swam to her best results in the morning's heat. She was too tired in the finals."

"But I was really surprise she could swam so fast in the following relay. She told me she was exhausted after the 200m butterfly. I was very proud of her fighting spirit."

The Chinese women's team (Xu Yanwei, Zhu Yingwen, Tang Jiangzhi, Yang Yu) won the relay by 7:46.30, beating the previous world record of 7:47.14. The U.S. team took the silver while Australia won the bronze medals.

Yang Yu will compete in the 4x100m medley relay on Friday, 4x100 freestyle relay on Saturday and 200m freestyle on Sunday.

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