Men's C2 Teams - Collated Flash Quotes

Australian Canoeing Media Services, Monday, 3 October 2005

Jaroslav Pospisil (CZE) - 2nd Place
On getting the silver medal:
"I'll settle with silver but it is just a race. Silver is OK but we were going to get a medal just don't know what colour."

Remy Alonso (FRA)
On their disastrous run:
"We hadn't done too well on the first run after missing a gate. So we went into the second run hoping for a clean run."

On one of their team breaking a paddle:
"We came in to the first gate and our boat struck their paddle."

On being penalised 656 points:
"It's very hard to paddle a C2 with only one paddle."

His first reaction to seeing his teammates broken paddle:
"I can't repeat that."

Victor Lamy (FRA)
On what went wrong:
"We broke a paddle and we missed gates and made many mistakes but that's it. We had very bad luck."