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Thursday 16 January 2014 6 minutes reading time
Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte, you're the second Italian in history to win the European title, the first to have succeeded Fusar Poli and Margaglio in Bratislava in 2001. What are your impressions of the evening?
Cappellini / Lanotte: Obviously we are extremely pleased with our performance, we wanted to skate well and just exeption. We tried to resist the pressure, we'' l have done, and so we are both happy that the score of the result. He could not have gone better.
We still have much to work with a view to Sochi, our performance has been good but we can do much better than that, we know it because it is what we do in training every day. We can still work on many aspects.
Ilinykh / Katsalapov, you had a great chance to finish first here ..
Ilinykh / Katsalapov: is sport. Sometimes it happens. We skated to a thousand'''' s time right from the start. Mistakes like these can happen, but we were skating with the heart, we did everything we could, just sometimes it can happen ..
Coomes / Buckland, do you remember your first Europeans?
Coomes / Buckland: Yes, it was in Tallin (2010, ed), 16esimi we arrived so we are very proud to have come this far.
Work with Platov, what can you tell us about him?
We are very fortunate to be coached by one of the best coaches in the world. It'' fantastic train with a team so excellent. As been skating feel as if he were behind us, supporting us. '' It was a great skater and now a great coach.
Ilinykh / Katsalapov, you said you started the program with great speed, do not you think that sometimes it is a risk to do it?
CL different approach Compared to last year'' s euros?
no, we have to Improve ourselves all the time. trying to mae everything stronger and with mor eemotions. Last year it was a fight for our first medal. this time we just rpacticed as hard as We Could. we didn'' t know it would not have been a fight until coming here.
CB i was stunned by yur lifts. how do you work on them?
we go home, watch videos of skaters, dancers, gymnasts, acrobats and look for new ideas. we work a lot with acrobats in the off season. furthermore i am so tiny nick Compared to That it would be silly to not use this advantage at this
IK what did you think when you finish a fall?
it would not be proper to say it here. it was unexpected for me. trying not to think abotu it. we had two elements blackberries so i just tried to keep it together and finish our skate.
when was the last time it happened with you?
it was one month ago (smiles)
CB you choose a different music than the others. why?
we love MJ. we wanted to go into sochi with somethng Knew We Could we connect with. Knew many eople we would go with classical music. but you cna Also feel a lot MJ I know that'' s why we chose it.
IK you Looked really tired. it is true or r u sad or angry?
we have a lot of power and nw culd skate another FD without mistakes now. but of course we'' re abit tired but it'' s normal. we just need to take a couple of days off.
CL we have been waiting for this moment I know NGOs. who do you be here dedicated.
my mom, she'' s not here but i acheive everythim smt i think of her. she must be smiling somewhere.
our parents, family, friends. all people everywhere who work with us and support us.
CL, IK got high scores, very close. how much does it give you momentum towards the Olympic games?
CL we got two personal bests. Especially the fd got high marks. we want to enjoy our second olympic games and skate our best, that'' s all
Ik oly ar gonna be held in our country know it'' s gonna be a great motivation for us. it'' s great to skate here and prepare for sochi here, to build momentum towards Sochi.
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