Special report: 2008 Olympic Games     

    YANGON, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar athletes who are going to make their Olympic Games debut in China pledged on Monday to try their utmost to attain their personal best in their respective events.

    Kyaw Zin, 20, who will compete in three swimming events in the Beijing Olympics, said that it is not easy to pass through even the first round of the swimming events in the World Summer Games but he will try hard to get his personal best in the competition.

    "I am very happy to enter the most splendid Olympic Games in China for the first time representing Myanmar. I am now doing hard training everyday," Kyaw Zin said.

    Kyaw Zin, who became a member of Myanmar national swimming team at the age of 11 and competed in six international competitions since then, will take part in men's 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke at the 29th Beijing Olympic Games.

    "I feel very proud to compete in the Olympic Games in Beijing as I neither had been to China nor attended the Olympic Games before," sprinter Lae Lae Win said, adding that "my best record in women's 200-meter this year is 24.09 seconds and I will try my best to pass my best record in the Olympic Games."

    "I have a dream of breaking the women's 200-meter Myanmar record, which is 23.7 seconds, in the Olympics," she stressed.

    Lae Lae Win, 31, who was included among the country's track and field team in 2003 and grabbed eight medals -- four golds, eight silvers and one bronze -- from international competitions up to now, will appear in women's 200-meter in the quadrennial games.

    Myanmar long-distant runner Soe Min Thu said at the training camp that he is very excited to compete with the world-class runners in the World Summer Games in China and he believed that he will achieve his personal best in the competition.

    Soe Min Thu, 20, who got one gold and two silver medals from the six international track and field competitions, will appear in men's 5,000-meter run in the Olympic Games.

    Myanmar male athlete of the year 2007 Phone Myint Tae Zar, 31, also said that he dare not expect much in the Olympics as all world's best players will appear in the games, and so he will make his efforts to obtain his personal best in the Beijing Olympics.

    "I want to take honor for the country by making achievement in the competition. So, I am trying very hard now," he emphasized.

    Myanmar will send a 20-member sports delegation including six athletes -- four men and two women -- to compete in track and field, swimming, archery, rowing and canoeing/kayat in the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in China from Aug. 8 to 24.