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Lucas Broussard, 16, after he won the SILVER medal at the JGP Final earlier today 
- from the junior men's press conference afterwards:
(on the emotions on the silver medal) I’m very happy, it’s really crazy just cause I didn’t really expect to be here when I started the season with the back injury and I had to take a few months off the ice and I almost didn’t get any [JGP] assignments, and to get a silver medal was not something I planned on and here we are. I’m exceedingly proud of myself, how I handled myself and mostly I’m just happy that I had a lot of fun.
(who are the idols) My favorite skater here is Shoma Uno. I think, the power he gets is really impressive and he is an amazing skater too. It’s really inspiring to be able to just be here with him, walk by him, to look at him, it’s very surprising, it’s nice to know he is here and I’m here with him and it’s really cool.
(on what he takes from this event) The lesson I will take with me - no matter how awful I feel going into the competition unprepared or I felt like a wreck going into this one but even then I can still be successful despite a bad week of training or something aching or a really bad trip here - I can still do my best.
Lucas had 2 ISU PB scores in Torino: 220.43 total & 81.11 in his 1st place Tango SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjLk1AkPH4
His cleanest FS performance this JGP season was in Gdansk (SB 140.27 at Solidarity Cup where both 3Lz combos were landed cleanly and well, unlike the two today): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wecGC_49_Jo
Robert Yampolsky, 18, finished 5th with 198.02 (4th in SP & FS) - his quick quotes following his FS:
(on a shaky performance today) I think definitely illness and sickness threw me off, my training regimen was completely different coming to this competition because of it, so that was definitely part of what happened out there with the first two Axels. Usually I'm used to getting so much so many long program run-throughs in, but not having been able to practice them for a solid week before coming here threw me off, but at the end of the day it's my responsibility to try to get it together when I need to. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it today but I think in upcoming competitions I'll be a little more prepared and better suited to skate better, like cleaner programs.
(on his next goal) My next goal would be to land a quad in competition. I mean I've been landing triple Axels for about a season now, so the next step would be to probably do a quad, my Lutz is the closest. I’ve landed it here and there, but it's usually underrotated or I fall on it. It's close but I’m trying to get it more consistent.
(on the experience from the Junior Grand Prix Final) Well there's so much to take in. That was the biggest competition in my life and it's a whole new experience to compete with so many people watching in the foreign country, so probably try to calm myself, and I learned how to prepare my nerves a little bit better coming into such a big competition.
- from the junior men's press conference afterwards:(on the emotions on the silver medal) I’m very happy, it’s really crazy just cause I didn’t really expect to be here when I started the season with the back injury and I had to take a few months off the ice and I almost didn’t get any [JGP] assignments, and to get a silver medal was not something I planned on and here we are. I’m exceedingly proud of myself, how I handled myself and mostly I’m just happy that I had a lot of fun.
(who are the idols) My favorite skater here is Shoma Uno. I think, the power he gets is really impressive and he is an amazing skater too. It’s really inspiring to be able to just be here with him, walk by him, to look at him, it’s very surprising, it’s nice to know he is here and I’m here with him and it’s really cool.
(on what he takes from this event) The lesson I will take with me - no matter how awful I feel going into the competition unprepared or I felt like a wreck going into this one but even then I can still be successful despite a bad week of training or something aching or a really bad trip here - I can still do my best.
Lucas had 2 ISU PB scores in Torino: 220.43 total & 81.11 in his 1st place Tango SP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwjLk1AkPH4
His cleanest FS performance this JGP season was in Gdansk (SB 140.27 at Solidarity Cup where both 3Lz combos were landed cleanly and well, unlike the two today): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wecGC_49_Jo
Robert Yampolsky, 18, finished 5th with 198.02 (4th in SP & FS) - his quick quotes following his FS:
(on a shaky performance today) I think definitely illness and sickness threw me off, my training regimen was completely different coming to this competition because of it, so that was definitely part of what happened out there with the first two Axels. Usually I'm used to getting so much so many long program run-throughs in, but not having been able to practice them for a solid week before coming here threw me off, but at the end of the day it's my responsibility to try to get it together when I need to. Unfortunately, I couldn't do it today but I think in upcoming competitions I'll be a little more prepared and better suited to skate better, like cleaner programs.
(on his next goal) My next goal would be to land a quad in competition. I mean I've been landing triple Axels for about a season now, so the next step would be to probably do a quad, my Lutz is the closest. I’ve landed it here and there, but it's usually underrotated or I fall on it. It's close but I’m trying to get it more consistent.
(on the experience from the Junior Grand Prix Final) Well there's so much to take in. That was the biggest competition in my life and it's a whole new experience to compete with so many people watching in the foreign country, so probably try to calm myself, and I learned how to prepare my nerves a little bit better coming into such a big competition.
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. We should just accept 
