Ian Clark on their opponents, Holdren and
Rodgers:<br> &gt;<br> &gt; "On thing, Todd and Dax are a great
team, a great ball control team.<br> And I've<br> &gt;
seen it a million Times, they can be down 14-9 or
whatever, and you<br> can never<br> &gt; count them out.
They can Always come back and defeat you. They<br>
never give<br> &gt; up. They'll come after you. And
That's what we did in the game. We<br> closed<br> &gt;
them off. We didn't give them any opportunity, Or any
momentum.<br> That was<br> &gt; important."<br> &gt;<br> &gt;
Clark on some of their strategy:<br> &gt;<br> &gt; "On
the bad side (with the wind), we were trying to serve
the left side<br> player,<br> &gt; because if The
left side player doesn't pass the ball straight ahead,
the<br> ball<br> &gt; blows, and then the Set is much
more difficult to handle for them."<br> &gt;<br> &gt;
Clark on what he and Boullianne will be concentrating
on this season:<br> &gt;<br> &gt; "I am not giving
up my Olympic hopes by any means. We have a
little<br> ace in the<br> &gt; Hole in the sense that we
have the only tournament win (FIVB<br> Acapulco in
1999).<br> &gt; And It is going on eight tournaments, the
most points in eight<br> tournaments,<br> &gt; and
that tournament Win counts as the most points you can
add. And it<br> is the<br> &gt; top two teams with the
most Points. So our point total there is good,<br>
although<br> &gt; we did have some pretty lousy tournaments On
the European swing. So<br> there's<br> &gt; still 10
tournaments and so we are by no means out of It."