(Beijing, 18 April) - Comments from Marie-Pier Boudreau-Gagnon (CAN), Isabelle Rampling (CAN), Julie  Sauve (CAN), Gemma Mengual (ESP), Daria Iushko (UKR) and Kseniya Sidorenko (UKR) after the duet free routine of the Olympic Games Synchronised Swimming Qualification Tournament 2008 at the National Aquatics Centre on Friday.

Marie-Pier Boudreau-Gagnon (CAN)

On being nervous:
"Sure, we are nervous; its the olympic qualification. This is the biggest competition before the Olympics, so it was a bit stressful."

On changes in routine for the Olympics:
"We like to put a touch up on every program. Everytime after a competition we get comments from everyone and then touch up for the next one."

Isabelle Rampling (CAN)

On the ispiration of the theme:
"Being here in China, we really wanted to please the audience, and dragons was definately the way of going about it. Knowing the power of the yellow dragon, we really wanted to mark ourselves."

On today's performance compared to Wednesday's performance:
"I think we need to vision it and see the actual score itself. It's hard to just go with how you feel because you are in the moment, and it is not the same as taking a step back and seeing the precision and accuracy of every movement."

Julie Sauve (CAN)

On performance of the Canadian duet:
"We actually wanted a bit more [in the score]."

Gemma Mengual (ESP)

On her feeling of the performance:
"We are very happy today, but the training made me really tired."

On the final place after they got a good result: 97.667
"I'm not sure about the final place, because we were the eighth of the performance. But we have confidence to be the top, unless other teams make no mistake."
 
Daria Iushko (UKR)

On their score (46.417):
"The score is not as high as we expected. However, it's ok anyway."

"Compared with our performance on Wednesday, we feel more confident today and our synchronisation has been improved. We made improvments on every aspect."

Kseniya Sidorenko (UKR)

On their cooporation:
"We have been duet for nearly 5 years, and this is the fourth year. We are just like sisiters. We can feel with each other in the competition and daily life."

On their training:
"Everyday, we begin our training at 4 o'clock in the morning and keep training until 3 o'clock in the afternoon."