China's Olympic champion Women's Volleyball team has returned to China after capturing gold in Rio.
中国女排奥运冠军团已从纽约回国。
Head coach Lang Ping says their return to the top of the podium is a reward for the team's years of hard work.
"We had been preparing for it for four years and we trained especially hard this year. We held a lot of confined training sessions in order to achieve a breakthrough and to prepare for the US and Brazilian teams because these two teams are really strong. If you want to get a medal, you have to defeat one of these teams. So we paid more attention to those games, especially from the quarterfinals."
While China wasn't forced to take on the United States, the squad did eliminate defending champions Brazil on their home turf, denying the hosts a 3rd straight Olympic title.
Lang Ping says she's not going to give her team much time to bask in the success from Rio.
"I think that as soon as the athletes walked down from the podium it was time to start preparing for the next game. Talking about big goals, it will be the next Olympic Games, the Tokyo Olympic Games."
相关单词：squad
squad解释：n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组
squad例句：
The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
相关单词：bask
bask解释：vt.取暖，晒太阳，沐浴于
bask例句：
Turtles like to bask in the sun.海龟喜欢曝于阳光中。
In winter afternoons,he likes to bask in the sun in his courtyard.冬日的午后，他喜欢坐在院子晒太阳。
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