Figure skating - Junior W.CH.2013, Milan
The statements in the heat of the first three finishers in the men's single category of the Junior World Championships in progress at the Ice Stadium Agora of Milan.
Saturday 2 March 2013 6 minutes reading time
 Joshua Farris (USA), Junior World Champion, 2013:
"I'm really happy with how I skated today, I went to the track with the goal to have fun and do my best and I would say that I did great. I knew this was my last appointment as a junior, I was tense before arriving here in Milan, but then I immediately had a special feeling with this ice. The fall on the quadruple fortunately did not affect my performance, but to be honest I was afraid that the panel did not consider the full rotation. Next year will be great in the senior category with so many samples with which to confront. This podium is the emblem of the growth of the American movement, we are many and all competitive. We hope to monopolize the podium as well to PyeongChang 2018, but I will have to improve especially in transition and work to have a more solid quadruple and maybe why not enter the Salchow in my repertoire. I would like to participate in the Olympics next year, but will not be easy. "
Jason Brown (USA), silver medal:
"Amazing! I did something incredible that even in my dreams I thought I could achieve today! This morning I did not feel so confident, then after hearing the applause Joshua I loaded a lot and I wanted to show. At the end of her four initial Axel I said to myself: Well the more you do it, now believe it till the end! When I heard the roar of the audience at the end of the year I moved and excited and I thought about all the sacrifices that have to be dealt with here now. I do not like starting the program with the triple Axel, I prefer to test the ice with something simpler before running it, so I decided to put the double Axel because he has no restrictions, and anyway I knew that I would have limited the GOE to minimum losses. Compared to the national senior program I had to remove 30 seconds per my schedule so I changed all that. I inserted a quarter after two triple Axel that would give me the opportunity to speed up the exercise and precious time as we were to limit the stopwatch because I had exhausted the other jumps in the rest of the program. I take care of a lot of the transition, I do not like to think, well now I go there and do a jump, but in my head I always look more elegant and attractive way to deal with them, although I sometimes complicates the execution. In the last month I have repeated many Axel, that weakness has become a strength and I think at the senior level that can only help me. Sure, I need to work to have a quadruple because now without you are no longer competitive, but we'll start thinking about it since April. Do not think I have a chance to go to Sochi, but if I work hard I do not know what can be accessed in the near future. Certainly a day I'd like to wear the shirt American at the Olympics, maybe to those of 2018! I will work hard to get there because it's my dream since childhood.
Shotaro Omori (USA), bronze medalist:
"I feel great now. Before the race I was a bundle of nerves, but my coach calmed me and made me concentrate on the test. I felt the pressure to win a medal important, last night I slept very little, but this makes up for any effort. I'm not really sure what I'll do next season, I have not yet spoken with my coach, but I think that 60% will stay in the Junior Grand Prix for another season. "
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