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Tanya Drubetskaya
Here are the statements made by couples dancing under the tender of the free program at the Trophee Eric Bompard in Paris. Virtue / Moir, Ilinykh / Katsalapov and Pechalat / Bourzat have answered the questions of journalists
Saturday 16 November 2013 7 minutes reading time
Virtue / Moir, you have already won here a couple of times, how do you feel?
Moir: This is one of my favorite races. We are proud to be here. I love the city and it is always special to return. Our performance was solid enough, even though we left a lot of points on the road. We are proud of how we competed, there is something positive to take home. For us, every race is a small stone that builds on our journey towards the Olympics.
Ilinykh / Katsalapov, what do you think of the silver medal, and of your performance.
Katsalapov: We would like to thank the public who supported us. We love to come here and be able to compete against great champions like Nathalie Pechalat and Fabian Bourzat and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir. We are pleased to have improved compared to what was done in Japan a week ago. The race was a great success as we are concerned.
Pechalat / Bourzat, your penseri on the race.
Bourzat: Today we felt a bit 'as in Nice two years ago with this audience cheering for us, we skated well in front of our fans. We may not have skated well as in China, we have lost a few points on the lifting, overall we did a good short with a score better than the previous race, so it's okay.
This is your last season: you have tried many different free, different stories, you think you still have stories to tell?
Pechalat: On the occasion of this free we sewed it all together, so many things that we proposed during our careers, but I think that there is always something to say. We worked together for 13 years, will continue, but after the races will be more beautiful, we will have complete freedom, it will be fun and I can not wait.
 Tessa Virtue: As far as we are concerned, we are not sure that this is our last season. We will decide after Sochi. We pinned on our mobile phones new ideas for free, but we'll see. After 17 years years I can not understand whether it is a matter of "now or never".
Pechalat / Bourzat, try to tell the story that strikes the viewer. Can you explain where it comes from the idea?
Pechalat: We decided to start from the book (The Little Prince, ed) which tells of a minor character, the rose. We had to rethink the history of the book for two main characters, the story takes place in four stages: as we meet, then the time that separates us, and meet again. I guess now you understand better ..
Have you changed a lot of things after the Masters, but how? II?
Bourzat: According to the rules the movement somersault not be coded as lifting as she can run by itself without my help. So we had to change it, just returned from the Master of France, we have created this new lift, we wanted something similar to the lifting of the pairs of art.
Virtue / Moir, tell us instead of your story.
Moir: For me and Tessa is a free very special. It took a while 'to find the music that we really wanted, our goal was to tell our 17 years together, telling our mutual affection and bond with skating.
Ilinykh / Katsalapov, which interpreted characters in your program?
Ilinykh: Music is the Russian composer Tchaikovsky's ballet. There is a real story, there are two main characters, the feelings are interpreted passion and love. We work a lot on the elements, the lifting on which we have worked with athletes of Cirque du Soleil. I think we will work more on the choreography for two skaters prove to be stronger, we have not had the time to show you everything you wanted.
All talk a lot of lifts. You begin to see movement very dangerous, sometimes it seems that there strangoliate each other.
Moir: Yeah I guess it's true that in some lifting there seems to strangle. I like the new lifts are much more athletic and more difficult, give greater credibility to the sport. More lifting is difficult and should deserve more points. Some are dangerous and we must be careful. We all work on safety, and then you know, also perform a quadruple can be dangerous. Pechalat: Yes, I think that everyone has opted for new and different solutions, risky without a doubt, we could play it safe on the lifts but we do not care just get level 4, we want to impress.
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