Translation. I just did the Morgan and Vanessa part. It took me a while.
INSEPTV video interview featuring Morgan Ciprès, Vanessa James
https://youtu.be/tbMGVlSkeTY
P: Patrice Dumont, Host
E: Enzo Py, Guest host
V: Vanessa James
M: Morgan Ciprès
P: First guests of the day, the pair of Vanessa James and Morgan Ciprès, with the return of Enzo Py. Hello everybody.
E, V, M: Hello.
P: Since the start of the season, we're used on Team INSEP to get our bearings with talking about the Summer Olympic Games. It's going to change a little bit today. Traditional question. If you don't have the answer, it's not a big deal. I have it for you. Since when did figure skating first become part of the Olympic Games?
M: It's true, it's a traditional question. But each time, we don't remember the answer. [laughs]
P: Thank you very much. Enzo, a little help?
E: No idea.
P: Look at the board. A little bit of a trick question. 1908 at the London Summer Olympic Games. With single ladies, males and pairs. And 1920 at Anvers. So two Summer Olympic Games. Before 1924 at Chamonix, the first Winter Olympic Games. We'll talk about your Olympic results a little later. But first thing to remember or two, the gender parity in figure skating which is rare [in the historical context], and the participation at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. You knew about these?
M: No, not really.
P: First information to give us, the center of excellence at INSEP is for figure skating but no ice dance. Do you know if this is voluntary or circumstantial?
M: I think it's more circumstantial, because we already don't have a dedicated ice rink at INSEP [they train at nearby Bercy]. It's hard for us to really integrate INSEP. We have some skaters who are interns at INSEP. I was an intern here for three or four years. But no ice dance because their center of excellence is based at Lyon and other parts of the country far from Paris.
P: So, how many skaters at INSEP, how many coaches, today? Vanessa?
V: I don't know. About 20, maybe. A Little bit less. It must be about 15, right?
M: Yeah, about 15 skaters and some staff.
V: With 5 profs [coaches/teachers].
P: We will find out later when we ask this question to Claude Thévenard who's going to join us later. [part of Maé-Bérénice Méité segment, the answer was 3 coaches] Like you told us, Morgan, no proper ice rink within INSEP. You need to train in neighboring rinks. How many rinks do you train at, outside of here, Bercy?
M: I don't really know because we have all the ice rinks from the Île-de-France region. We don't have a lot of skaters that are part of the French National Team. We have the ice rink of Champigny, the ice rink at Bercy. We are all part of different local clubs. Vanessa is part of the Club des Français Volants, so Bercy. Maé-Bérénice is at Vitry, so she's part of the Club de Vitry. I am part of Dammarie[-lès-Lys]. But we all train in the same center of excellence [as the French National Team], so we train in conjunction with INSEP.
P: To come back to INSEP, what facilities do you use at INSEP? Are there some?
V: The facilities? We have the gym, the cafeteria. We all need to eat. [... either swimming pool or locker room, I am not sure what Vanessa meant] We have the medical facility. It's all great.
P: Where are those exactly in INSEP?
M: Exactly?
P: Like the gym, is that your dedicated gym?
M: No, we have access to everything, but we have a time slot. We share with other sports. And we train with a Judo coach, Benoît Campargue, who takes us sometimes to the covered stadium, sometimes we're outside, sometimes we're in the gym next to the wrestling, etc... We are a little bit everywhere.
P: So traditional question, how long have you been together as a pair?
V: Now, it's been four years and a half. We started in September 2010.
P: The other question, how did you meet?
M: We met... I'm a little bit younger than Vanessa.
P: Barely.
M: [jokingly] Barely, a little bit. She's going on forty. I, twenty. That's why it's a little bit difficult. [more seriously] No but, we were both part of the French National Team. I was a single skater. She was a pair skater with her old partner [Yannick Bonheur]. And we met like this.
P: There wasn't any matchmaker. People who thought that you could work well together.
M: Yes, after a while. We first wondered about partnering up with each other. It was a joke at first. We did a tryout. Some people thought that this could work. It's not like you could pair any two skaters from the French National Team. You have to really think about it. Everybody has to agree.
P: Today, if I can ask you another trick question, your strength and your weakness or lesser strength, what would they be?
V: We are very dynamic in character, and strong physically. We're powerful. But I'm not very light. I am bulked up. I don't know how to say it.
M: You're tall.
V: Yes, I'm also tall, which is a handicap in pairs. It's easier with a shorter person. But physically, we are bulked up, we're powerful, we are not the classical pair. Light and feminine.
P: You are more like an athletic pair.
V: Yes, exactly. This was the word that I was looking for.
P: Vanessa, rather a globetrotter of figure skating, because you were born in Canada, in Ontario. You skated for the United States, for Great Britain, and then finally France. Why France?
V: Why France? It's because in the United States... Like I said I am tall for a pairs skater, so I need to find a tall partner. In the United States, all the tall [pairs skater] boys were taken, or there was not a lot. So, I went on a meeting website, like for love, but for figure skating, ice dancers and pairs. We have to put in our picture, our goal, our record. And I found a partner named Yannick Bonheur, who's French. I went to France for a three day tryout. The Fédération [Fédération française des sports de glace or French Federation of Ice Sports] liked our partnership. I came back a week later and I stayed in France.
P: For two years with Yannick Bonheur.
V: Yes, two years.
P: We just learn something Enzo. There's a meeting website for skaters. Don't hesitate, if you need the address, Vanessa will tell you, a little bit later. Morgan, before you paired up with Vanessa, you never did any pairs skating. How's life as a pair? Is it better or is it more complicated?
M: It's... I compare this, for me, the life as a pair on ice is almost the same as life as a pair off ice. It's always great at the start. There are always moments where it goes down and then goes up again. There are highs and lows. It's difficult. We still have a common goal. We have to be demanding of ourselves and of our partner, but you still have to be sensible with the other, listen to each other. It's a really difficult sport.
P: How many hours a day do you spend with each other?
M: It depends on the day.
P: On average?
E: On the ice?
V: On the ice? Three maybe sometimes four. In total five or six hours per day, together.
M: We are a pair that needs to get along well to work well. And it happens also outside the rink. When there are tensions off the ice, we can feel it on the ice, it's not good for work. But when we get along well outside, we are even better on the ice.
P: And it works very well for you. Three national championship titles, already. Now, we are talking at this moment between two important dates in the Winter, the European Championship in Götheborg [Wikipedia lists Stockholm] that just happened and the World Championship in Shanghai that are coming up. Götheborg everything went well, third place after the short program. Fifth place in the final placement. What do you take from it? The joy from the short program or the sadness from the final placement, or a little bit of both?
V: I want to say both. It's our first medal, the European [Championship]. So it's really important. It doesn't happen to everybody. We have to take the positive. We skated well. The sadness is always there, but we bounced back with a great competition in Grenada, in Spain. We were third place at the University World Championships [Figure skating at the 2015 Winter Universiade]. It's easy to skate well. if we get good results, it's easy. It harder to be sad and to bounce back right after. It's our strength also.
P: Goal in Shanghai?
M: To skate well.
P: I don't doubt it.
M: It's always difficult for us to reach the World podium. If we come close to fifth, that would be great. The problem is we're a little bit injured right now. We will get through the end of this season and the World Championships.
P: And when you skate everyday at Bercy or elsewhere, do you think about PyeongChang? To dream of an Olympic podium or to get closer to it?
M: Yes. For me, it was always a dream since I was very young. I'm very competitive. We dream of the highest podium. For us, it could happen at PyeongChang in three years, three years and a half. Yes, we think about it more or less everyday.
P: We wish you the best.
E: How did you stop single skating and take up pairs skating with Vanessa? Was it complicated? How did it happen? Did you do a "white season" ["redshirt" in american college terms] to learn how to skate in pairs? Or did you do small competition and exhibition galas, to see how it goes?
M: You pretty much described how it went.
E: Great. It's me the coach.
M: I needed to learn everything. I needed to fill out. I was cut out physically for pairs but still I needed to bulk up a little more without doing too much because I still need to do my jumps and skate well. We had a learning season, half a learning season. Then we did a couple of exhibition galas with a some pairs element. Step by step, we tried to build something.
P: We don't always say. For you, it's obvious. When Vanessa talks about height and weight, it's because there's a time when you need to lift her and throw her. And when Morgan talks about getting bulked up, to gain weight but not too much, it's because he needs to lift and throw her, but still be able to do the jumps. Is there an element that is your secret weapon? Without telling your secret.
M: I don't think we have a secret weapon. We are a complete pair in a lot of things. At the core, we're really good jumpers and single skaters. That's why it works well together. She's not short, and I'm not huge. So, I can't do stuff with her that I could do with my little sister, for example.
P: I don't know your sister.
M: She's eight. That's why. We are complete skaters. We have impressive elements that are technical. It's what makes our strength, I think.
P: You want to add something?
V: I want to say all the jumps and throws, even the twist, we are very athletic. We're known for our height of our individual jumps. The height of our throw is a little bit different than other teams. I want to say all the jumps and throws.
P: A real asset.
V: Yes.
E: Together since September 2010 on the ice. Does that make you an old or young pairs team? Experienced enough or still learning?
M: When we did the Olympic Games, I was the youngest male pairs skater of our World ranking. We're getting older. But for the Olympic Games, we were young.
P: You'll be ripe in time for PyeongChang.
M: Normally.
P: Thank you, Vanessa and Morgan to stay still on the ice. It doesn't happen too often. I hope you didn't catch a chill.
M: No, it's alright.
P: We wish you all the best in the coming weeks.
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