Thanks a lot. Here is a translation:
Journalist: Was it the perfect start of the season for you ?
GP: Yes, up to now it really went well. Perfect doesn't exist but the start of the season met our hopes. Each new competition was better than the last, which is very encouraging. We're very satisfied to have accomplished during the competitions what we were able to achieve in training. Sometimes it's difficult to achieve the same performances in competition because the pressure and the stakes are different. So it meant a lot for us to be able to do it.
Journalist: As a symbol of this great start, there were several different WR. What do they represent for you in a sport where records aren't so talked about ?
GC: It's a matter of personal pride. It wasn't our objective but it happens as a result of what we set ourselves up to achieve. Breaking the 200 points barrier is indeed a nice symbol, even though our sport is different from athleticism or swimming, disciplines where you can compare records over time. In skating, the points system evolves so comparisons can only be made over a period of a couple of years. It's a sign we're on the right track with a really strong program which touches the judges. This does motive us even more.
Journalist: It motives but it adds to the pressure as you're now seen as favorites for the next OG ?
GP: There's always pressure and I feel that right now, we're in the most possible comfortable position. It's not always easy to live up to it but I prefer it to any other position.
Journalist: When you watch your performance in Nagoya and the 202.16 points, do you tell yourselves you can't do much better than that ?
GC: I think we still have a sizeable margin. We know what we need to improve, where we can still grab couple of more points. We feel relieved to know we beat records while keeping some space for improvements artistically as well as technically. For the moment, we've performed very well but we need to keep aiming for even more perfection.
Journalist: In a video shot by your sponsor L'Or,
you mention your sensations on the ice. What are they when one breaks a WR ?
GP: This program, we truly love it immensely. We chose it for the OG and we think it's the most interesting and the most complex we've ever done. And most importantly, it's the one with which we're the most at ease, the one in which we take the most pleasure.
GC: Our aim is to go get the audience's emotion as much as we can. Each movement, each intention must be clear to be understood by the audience. Let's not forget this is a sport and a show. It's important for us to work on that. We can spend hours in training to perfect on single move trying to be aware of the effect it can have on the spectators. Now, record or not, when we watch back our performances on video, we only see imperfections.
Journalist: Are you ever satisfied ...
GC: (smiling) Yes, of course.
GP: But even if we enjoyed ourselves on the ice and we had a great performance, there's still a will to improve and to spot what wasn't right.
GC: There's a big difference between a live experience and the fact of seeing it on video. On the latter, we can't feel as much the expressions of our faces, the way we enjoy ourselves. We can't fully grasp the speed on the ice and the atmosphere.
Journalist: While performing, can you really enjoy yourselves or the concentration sucks out everything ?
GP: Actually, I think enjoyment comes from concentration. Our performance is a whole and the concentration carries us, takes us further.
GC: The most beautiful programs we've skated, in reality, we were not thinking at all. People don't necessarily realize how technical all the steps are. Everything must be so precise without the slight margin for error. It takes a lot of concentration but it doesn't take away from the pleasure we experience when we feel we successfully accomplished an element. Those moments are unparalleled.
