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We Don't Care about Chinese Divers: Japanese Coach
Three days before the Universiade diving competitions kick off, Japanese diving coach said Monday his team will not be influenced by the performance of the favorite Chinese divers and will try to do their best.
"I don't care about Chinese diver's performance. They're good, no doubt about it," said Kaneto Keita, who has brought his two women students here. "I just concentrate on my divers. So far as they try their best and do their dives well, I am happy," Kaneto Keita said.
His students, Takiri Miyazaki and Emi Otsuki, who have pulled off a bronze medal in the synchronized 10-meter platform in Fukuoka World Swimming Championships in July, will compete in the same event in Beijing.
Miyazaki will also take part in the women's individual platform event.
"We don't have pressure," said Kaneto, who had himself participated in three Olympic Games from 1988 to 1996.
But he said he hope the girls get used to pressure. "I hope the girls love pressure, which we don's usually have," said Kaneto, whose best performance was eighth in the men's 10m platform at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Miyazaki said they will try their best to win medals at the university games, which would be their second medal in international events. "We hope we can go to the 2004 Olympics," said the diver, who is studying postgraduate courses back home in physical education and aims to become a physical trainer in the future.
"I love diving very much," said Otsuki, an undergraduate majoring in teaching. "I will continue to dive until the day I can't do it any more," she said.
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