Crisoula and Jenny, the Belgian partner of Beijing Express.
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Patrick ROBERT / M6
Crisoula and Jenny were eliminated at the end of the third episode of
Beijing Express, on the tracks of the red earth
, broadcast Tuesday on M6.
“We gave everything.
Others could have given up.
We have never given up nor lost any of our good humor, ”declared the two Belgians at
20 Minutes
.
After this third episode, filming was suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“When we got back, it looked like there was a war, everything was closed, everything was empty,” Crisoula testifies.
Their third final duel was fatal to them.
Crisoula and Jenny bowed to Cinzia and Rose-Marie during the final test of the
Beijing Express
episode
broadcast Tuesday on M6 and this time it was eliminatory.
20 Minutes
collected the reactions of the Belgian pair for the season.
Despite your elimination, are you satisfied with these three steps?
Jenny:
We are very happy with our course, despite our ups and downs.
We gave it our all, while keeping a smile.
Unfortunately, bad luck took over.
We were really unlucky, especially in hitchhiking because we had had to find a home in the evening.
Do you find that the stages and the tests were of a particularly difficult level?
Crisoula:
Fatigue accumulates, there is travel, the lack of our families, we don't sleep much, we hardly eat… So it's harder.
When you have to grow 50 kg of bananas on Ugandan roads, it's obviously complicated (laughs).
J .:
We are sad at the end of the day to say that we are last.
But we gave everything.
Others could have given up.
We never gave up or lost any of our good humor.
For the second time in a row you have chosen to face Cinzia and Rose-Marie in the final duel.
Did you have a grudge against her?
C .:
The first time, yes.
They had thrown us at the Catalan pair [Who then waved the black flag against them, forcing them to stop for long minutes]…
J .:
They expected us to choose them, they knew.
C .:
The very evening of the shoot, we explained each other about the black flag.
We get along very well with them, we love each other now.
We have no teeth against them, that must be said.
This third step is also the last before repatriation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
How did you experience this moment?
J.:
Even if we were eliminated, we made the trip to Ethiopia because they kept us in reserve [to return to the game in the event of the defection of another pair].
We said to ourselves that it was cool, that we could still see this country.
And then the repatriation was announced ...
C.:
We were sad and disgusted.
J .:
And worried.
We were not at all aware of what was happening with the pandemic.
We did not know how our relatives experienced the thing in Belgium.
C .:
We did not imagine that the Covid was of such magnitude.
When we got back, it looked like there was a war, everything was closed, everything was empty.
Were you afraid that you had done all this for nothing and that the images would never be broadcast?
C .:
We never do things for nothing.
Even if the images had not been broadcast, Africa is in our heart, in our head, in our memories.
The shows condense four days into two hours, there are a lot of moments that we do not see.
Is there one in particular that you wish you had seen on TV?
J.:
Our sharing with the locals.
We struggled so much during the day that finding a home easily in the evening was a comfort for us.
We were greeted with open arms.
C .:
The first evening, we danced the sirtaki with all the children of the village, dressed in Ugandan clothes.
J .:
Who would have thought that we would have danced the sirtaki in the depths of Uganda?
(laughs)
C .:
It was magnificent.
Afterwards, they showed us their local dances.
That, I would have liked it to be broadcast on television!
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