Sui & Han: "We both feel very happy"

The much-anticipated Pairs short program with a bottleneck of world medal-contending teams did not disappoint at the 2016 World Figure Skating Championships yesterday. Leading the pack going into the long program is Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China, followed by Canada’s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford and Russia’s Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov.

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“We both feel very happy that we have done a perfect short program,” Han said. “This is what we can do in training and I am very happy, as well as honored, to have shown it to the audience here.”

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“To finally hit that ending position and feel good with ourselves, we were starting to get very frustrated this season hitting our ending position and feeling upset with ourselves and enough was enough,” said Duhamel. “We came here to feel good at the end of our performance and we’re very proud that we were able to do that.”

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“This was not our best score,” said Trankov. “We did one big mistake on the throw. We are a little bit disappointed about this, but we saw the standing ovation of the audience and we thought it was more important to have this.” proud that we were able to do that.”

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What were your highlights in Pairs?

I look forward to the LP donnybrook.

It is too bad that so few countries have strong pairs programs.