🥇 Riku Miura / Ryuichi Kihara 🇯🇵 158.13 / 231.24
Ryuichi: "I honestly have nothing but words of gratitude. Yesterday, we thought a comeback was still possible. The encouragement of those words helped me turn my mindset forward. I'm truly thankful to everyone."
On the emotional reset before the free skate:
Ryuichi: "I couldn't stop crying today. I was so frustrated, I couldn't sleep last night. I didn't have a very good quality of sleep. I couldn't stop my tears since I arrived at the rink, even at practice, from warm-up. It was a feeling I didn't understand, something I never experienced before. But the messages I got from people, and our coach, lifted me up again. Then I was able to sleep and switch my mindset. This is the place where we fight. There's no way we could give up at these Olympics. We told ourselves we would absolutely attack until the very end. I had been crying since morning, but unlike me, Riku was really strong today. Before the competition, I reset mentally and told the team I was okay."
On what Riku told him:
Ryuichi: "She said, 'It's not over yet. We have things we prepared for the free, so we can absolutely do this.'"
Riku: "In the past, I wouldn't have been able to be this strong. It's because of all the work we built together, and the support he's given me through every competition, that I was able to become strong at this event."
On what they told each other before the skate:
Ryuichi: "She told me, 'This time, I'll skate for you'. As a response, I said 'Let's skate for each other. If it's us, we can definitely do it.'"
On what they said while hugging after their performance:
Riku: "Well... First of all, Ryuichi was basically crying the whole time.
Ryuichi: "I was crying, but it wasn't the whole time."
Riku: "He was crying even during the warm-up, quite a lot. He was crying during the free program, too. When I asked, 'What are you crying about?' during practice, he said, 'I don't even know why I'm crying anymore. So I said, 'You're like a baby.'
Ryuichi: "Everyone was worried at the practice."
-On how he was able to reset after a nap:
Ryuichi: "I must have been sleepy. Sleep is important. The quality of my sleep was very bad. I was able to sleep for 8 hours, but it was eight hours of sleeping yet not really sleeping. Clearly, my head wasn't clear. If you don't get proper sleep, you lose your emotional balance, too. I don't usually sleep right before competitions, but I was too sleepy today, so I told them to wake me up after letting me sleep for half an hour. I went back to the village and slept for about an hour. That felt good."
On fear during the lift after yesterday's fall:
Ryuichi: "I was feeling nothing but fear. In the final part, I was clearly tense and using too much force. Yesterday wasn't a technical mistake. The grip point was on the skirt and the pants. It's not because the costume was bad or anything. She slipped from the base support."
Riku: "It was just bad luck."
Ryuichi: "The supporting point shifted, which caused her to fall down. So it wasn't a technical mistake. That made the mental reset more difficult. Today's lift was more standard, but I felt nothing but fear, so I put in a lot of force. Usually during a performance we don't speak to each other, but before the throw lutz I told her to relax."
Riku: "He said that, but I didn't want to slip again, so I kept holding on tightly."
Ryuichi: "It was obvious."
Riku: "Yes, I was using strength on purpose. That was on purpose. I was thinking, there's no way I'm falling again."
Ryuichi: "But I was thinking, if you grip too hard, you'll go off-axis, and that's dangerous."
Riku: "I'm sorry."
@lumicel_ He is innocent until proven guilty. But he's also one thing for sure, a LIAR, as he admitted it himself by reversing his old statements about never dating KSR. Not only once. 🙄
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😁Funny moments from the pairs' event podium
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