Graz (Austria) (AFP)

"It's a lesson, we probably needed it": Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, deprived of a sixth consecutive European coronation for fourteen hundredths and beaten for the first time in almost two years, estimated that this disappointment "will (the) boost even more ", Saturday in Graz (Austria).

Q: What is your state of mind?

Papadakis: "Obviously when we make small mistakes and don't win a title, we are disappointed, but we are lucky that we have the pleasure, and the side of creating emotions and being in connection with the public. We knew that the gap was very tight, that we had no room for error. And we made some mistakes. We are still very happy with our performance, it's our seventh European Championships and we won five, which is already huge. We can't always win, we accept it, it's a lesson, we probably needed it, and we can't wait to get back to work and be at the World Championships (in two months in Montreal, editor's note). "

Q: How do you explain the mistakes you made?

Cizeron: "I don't really have an explanation. There were little things here and there that weren't missed, but not very clean. We lost points as we went We can't really talk about a poor performance, it's still a pretty good performance. The scores are very close. It was not a perfect competition for us, it happens and it will boost us even more to work by the after."

Q: Is this defeat likely to sharpen your motivation?

Cizeron: "We can see it like that. Obviously, we would have preferred to win, but what is important is to know how to bounce back and get something positive from things that do not necessarily happen as we had expected. They are happening. At the time, we cannot rest on our achievements in a way, it will motivate us all the more to work. It fuels this fire, to want to be better, to go further. will make it work for us. "

Q: Do you think this result could change the way judges see you?

Cizeron: "No one is unbeatable. We are very consistent in our performances, and if we are perfect, we are very likely to win. I don't think that will have an effect on the judges: when they see you skating, they judge what they see. "

Words gathered at a press conference.

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