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At the end of the race couple'' s artistic this morning that concluded the European Championships in Budapest, the first three pairs classified issued press statements and answered questions from reporters. Here are their impressions, gathered for us live from Laura Sciarrillo.
Sunday 19 January 2014 4 minutes reading time
Volosozhar / Trankov: "Congratulations to the entire Russian team for the podium. We did it for the second time, something beautiful. I would also like to congratulate our coach as we are all trained by her, it might be the first time that a coach with all her couples on the podium. As for us,'' the mistake was ours and we want to make sure that does not happen again at the Olympics. "
Stolbova / Klimov: "We are happy with how we skated, we performed almost all of the items and we got the best score of the season. Proud to have finished on the podium as a team.
Bazarova / Larionov: "Unfortunately we made some mistakes, so I can not be said to be happy with the performance, we were not nervous, to be honest we were quite calm."
Volosozhar / Trankov, you have often said to fear the surprises. And this performance was definitely surprising.
Volosozhar / Trankov: Yes, sometimes it happens in training must insist on an item rather than another, but it never happened to commit so many mistakes on the jumps species. When we try the complete programs never happens. We need to think about how you can prepare for these two weeks.
'' Maybe a little voltage is dropped after the withdrawal of the German couple?
Volosozhar / Trankov: Certainly we felt less pressured but we still wanted to complete a good exercise for the joy of the Russian public present. Right now I do not understand what went wrong, I felt good on the ice, I was not tired, nervous or otherwise. However, for us it is always a pleasure to compete against the Germans, but we have no fear and we will not have to Sochi.
Volosozhar / Trankov, as this will weigh fight for your performance on the'' gold in Sochi own against the Germans?
Volosozhar / Trankov: Today was a Russian pair to win the free, there are other very strong couples from Russia, Canada, China. '' For us, it is important to have a good feeling and stay focused on our skating, apart from our competitors.
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