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Worlds are just warm-up for 2008, says China
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-11-15 11:01
"I have more freedom now," she said. "I have broken all links with my past
and I have progressed in my performance, too."
"I have even changed the music for my floor routine and I enjoy it better
than before."
Ponor chose the new song for her floor exercise with the help of a
disc-jockey in a professional recording studio.
"It sounds like music from a Turkish sultan's harem, with drums," a smiling
Ponor said.
Ponor, who drives a red convertible given to her by her mother when she
turned 18 in August, said the 15-year-old Sandra Izbasa who defeated her
recently at the national championships posed no threat.
"I don't see her as my successor yet," Ponor said. "She is good and quite
strong but she has to work a lot before she becomes better than me in a major
competition."
Last month, Ponor won her favourite event of balance beam at the national
championships but was beaten by Izbasa on the floor, a contest for which won
Ponor the gold in Athens.
Izbasa is not eligible to compete in the worlds because she is not 16 until
next June.
DIFFICULT SITUATION
The only Romanian to join Ponor in Melbourne will be
Leonida, who will compete on all four apparatus.
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