For the most part, this is the radiography of a break-up. A break-up that shook (and shocked) the skating world last October, when Sara Hurtado announced on her facebook page that she and Adrià Díaz were no longer a team. And no one saw that coming, really, with the Spaniards showing continuous progress and finding themselves at the best moment of their career: last season, they finished the Europeans in Stockholm on the 5th place and had their best result at the Worlds (14th).
Still, things were not working for a while in their partnership – and this particular discussion with Sara, heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time, deals extensively with the premises of the separation; but also shows her ready and determined to start fresh, if occasion and a new partner present themselves. “If I’m going back, I would like to do the same, or better. That amount of effort has to be worth it”, she says loud and clear, on December 11, in Barcelona, while we both taking a break from the Grand Prix Final.
by Florentina Tone/Barcelona
We meet at Starbucks, in the mall across the competition arena, in between two morning practice sessions at GPF. Yuzuru Hanyu had just crushed the World record for the men’s short program a night before, and journalists were still discussing the result when I left the press room, while Sara is getting ready for another day at the office: she’s one of the official speakers of the event, explaining the audience, between performances, some of the rules of figure skating.
“All skaters seem to have a particular fondness for Starbucks”, I can’t help but noticing while we’re taking our drinks, and Sara answers with a smile: “It’s nice to have something familiar wherever you go”. And with that common place in the itinerary of a skater, no matter the country or the competition, we go directly to the leitmotif of our get-together: Sara’s decision to end the biggest chapter of her life so far, her 7-year partnership with Adrià Díaz.
The official announcement, posted on her facebook page on October 16, had left room for tons of questions and assumptions – with “nooo”, “shocker”, “speechless” being the prevalent reactions – and Sara knows a detailed explanation might be needed. Still, she doesn’t want to put all their problems under everyone’s scrutiny, and, for the next hour, she’ll keep a delicate balance between “too little information” and “too much”, striving to accurately analyze the presence (and the evolution) in her mind of the thought of giving up.
More like a story building up as we were speaking, verbalizing particular thoughts, fighting and dismissing others, Sara will pause a lot during our talk, in the search of the most adequate words to describe the ups and downs of their relation, and then the end of what it was, for 7 years, Hurtado/Diaz. The struggle, the pressure, the thought of having failed, “I wish I would have made it work, seriously…”, but, all in all, a decision that felt right, “It was better to leave it at a point that we were good. I didn’t want to be ashamed of my career to the point that it made me quit”.
An emotional encounter that was, with Sara wearing her heart on her sleeves, as she had done in all of their programs throughout the years, one that ended with jokes and laughter, and more than one promise for the future: “I just can’t go out there and cry: «I don’t have a partner». No. But I know that if I get one, I’ll make sure I’ll do my best”, “Hurtado/Diaz was Hurtado/Diaz. If I start something new, it will be new”.
A day later, we meet again, in the Grand Prix Final arena, for some pictures. The junior pairs’ free skate has just ended, and Sara chooses to sit just a couple of centimeters of the ice, while the Zambonis are cleaning the surface. One more photo in the Kiss and Cry, and the message is clear: Sara Hurtado is not ready to leave skating yet. And skating doesn’t want to let her go either.
Florentina Tone: The news of your separation came as a shock for the figure skating world – could you lead me into the process of taking this decision? Because you had already prepared your programs for this season, you’d performed them at a competition in Québec… When have you started thinking this wasn’t what you wished anymore?
Sara Hurtado: Of course, in the process of becoming a high level ice dance couple, you face many problems, many difficulties, and you have to be together all the time to fight them, to go over every bridge, and sometimes, like for a few seasons, we were having some troubles in training, in practice. In the day by day [routine]. That’s why I believe it was a shock for a lot of people… It’s behind the scenes where the hardships occur.
Especially when, in competitions, you and Adrià always seemed to be in your bubble…
Well, in competitions you always want to show the best of you, and this is also good for your own confidence – you want to put that aside, like: There’s no problem, we are ready, let’s do it. So we were always focusing on competitions on our work, to be our best selves.
But, of course, competitions are like four weeks a year, five weeks a year, and the rest of the day by day was… hard.
But were you having difficulties in the process of training itself, in communicating what you wanted…?
There was a problem of communication in between us, that’s for sure, and then we had different ways to address training. Like… [she is trying really hard to find the right words to explain the source of the problems]
Let’s say that at some points of the training one needed to work on something different, or in a different way than the other, and those moments were causing us trouble… In a couple, you have to understand what the other needs and, most of the time, sacrifice your own perception of what’s best for the better of the team.
But that’s something every team has to go through, and we understood each other: Ok, I know you need that, I know I need this…, but we never got to the point of overcoming it, we were always going back to that point of not being on the same page.
Let’s take a break here – and tell me a little bit about your daily schedule in Montreal…
Well, we would go to the ice rink, warm up off-ice – it was either 9:00 a.m. or 12:00 p.m., it depended on the session we were doing – then we would warm up on ice, do stroking, and then we would start working on different elements. At the beginning, it was more about the choreography, building the programs, a lot of training was done to the compulsory dance. And then, more close to the season, we would do some run-throughs, more intense physically. After getting out of the ice, we would do stretching – and we had two days a week at the gym, on our gym, and, on another two, we had ballet. So it was very complete, it was like a job. [she smiles]
Some days we also had a ballroom teacher coming in to watch our lines, some other times we had our theatre coach, and she paid more attention in our expression.
I remember Gabriella Papadakis talked beautifully last season about the theatre coach you had in Montreal…
Catherine Pinard, yes, she’s very special.
[and then Sara comes back to the decision of ending her partnership with Adrià] So, I don’t know, it was more like a general feeling… I got to the point that I felt I didn’t belong to a team anymore. And, yeah, I felt alone in there, I wasn’t enjoying it anymore.
So the feeling was that you were not in this together anymore – but you kept on going for a while…
Of course, because I really wanted to make sure that I did my best to fix it, that I tried everything to feel more confident as a team, and keep improving even more. Because I believe that we’ve improved a lot these last few years…
You sure did, and people were really looking forward to your programs and continuous progress. That’s why I’m saying it was a shock for many, the end of Hurtado/Díaz…
I really valued that, I really valued our personality, the message that we were always sending with our programs. I really loved that side of ours… It was, it is part of me, part of what I wanted to do with my skating. So having that in front of me, it was like carrying a weight and you wanted to run, but…
And everyone has a little something, no one is perfect, and we all have bad days and good days, but at the end it was that feeling of not being the same as before, and wanting more…

Sara and Adrià during one of the best seasons of their career: here they are perfoming their “Surviving Picasso” free dance at 2014 Europeans in Budapest; less than a month later, they’ll finish the ice dancing event at 2014 Olympics in Sochi on the 13th place
From the outside, you seemed to have a wonderful time in your last season as a team, you improved tremendously, prior to that we went to the Olympics with that amazing Picasso free dance…
The Picasso program was really special to us. That program brought us together. For real. Even if we had a rough training, I knew I could always go back to that feeling and everything was going to be ok. For me, the personality, the character that I was skating in that program, I felt really related to. It was always great, I always loved it.
But after Sochi, I don’t know, I got injured, all these things were happening and, at one point, the balance started to shift…
But you were having these problems ever since… when? All your career?
More or less, yes.
Ever since you moved to Canada?
Before Canada. It’s something that it was always there, because it’s in our personalities. And, of course, when the pressure gets higher, the problems stop you more. You know, you have to have as less difficulties as possible if you want to keep going higher and higher.
…But I’m still good friends with Adri. It’s not like we don’t speak to each other now. We were both in it, we both know what happened and what we were trying to do and accomplish. So there’s no hard feelings between us, we ended up pretty good, I believe. If he calls me tomorrow: Sara, I need this, I’m gonna be there. But when at the point of working together… You can be really good friends with someone but then you know you won’t be able to work with that someone.
Especially when this is such a close relationship as in a skating couple… This is more like a marriage, really, you have to have a great connection with the one standing beside you…
It’s really hard to explain that relationship, because it’s not boyfriend and girlfriend, it’s not just friends… It’s a really close relationship, and if you don’t trust each other 100%, there will always be a gap for mistake, and for doubt.
Let’s talk about the summer going into the 2015-2016 season: you started preparing your programs…
[she decides to start even earlier] Well, last season for me was really hard. In the middle of the season I had a moment I didn’t really feel good to compete…
Prior to the Worlds?
Prior to the Europeans. Ironically, yes. [she laughs bitterly, thinking they had the best result of their career in this competition – they were 5th in Stockholm]
But I wasn’t feeling in a team. I wasn’t emotionally, mentally prepared. In my career I always felt the competition was the reward of the hard work you put into, it was the moment of enjoying what you’ve done before and feel proud of. And, heading to the Europeans, I was feeling that whatever result we would get I was not going to feel proud of… because of before. And so I think that’s really sad, because… you know that phrase that says: It’s not about the final result, it’s about the journey? For me is totally like that. It seems really hard for me to say this, but who cares if I’m 5th or 10th if inside me… It’s not enough for me to have a number on my curriculum…
I’m not saying that I wish we didn’t end up 5th, it was great and I think we skated really good, I believe we deserved to be there. But, after that, I got that feeling striking me again: how will we work well, to fully enjoy this?
You know, sometimes you have a bad performance, but you know you’ve been doing as much as you could, so you feel complete: Ok, I had a bad performance, but I know I did my best. In this case, I knew I didn’t do my best.
And we talked about it after the season, me and Adri. I told him about all this, about how I was feeling before the competition, and that we needed a change in the way we were training, thinking about our future, our future goals, because ever year it gets harder and harder…
Not to mention people were always expecting great things from you two…
…and us too. I don’t think anyone likes to be static, in one place. We all like to move forward, keep improving. So, yes, I told him all that, and he understood, so we said: “Ok, let’s try something that we didn’t try before”, and we started working with a psychologist, to be more together, to have also like a little referee in between us, to tell us: “Hey, he means this, she means that…”, so there were no misunderstandings.
And after the Worlds, we went on vacation, to recharge the batteries, and we started this season like giving it a last try. And sometimes we were really scared to ask for help. Me personally I’m like that: No, no, I’ll fix it myself. So before all this, I was always thinking: No, no, I’ll be able to fix it. But then, being in the moment, in the situation, I was like: Oh, My God, I can’t. So we decided to ask for help.
But people around you, your family, were you talking to them, asking for advice? Were you trying to find some help in the closest ones?
Yes, of course. But from them I get more support. In this case, we needed someone neutral. We both needed to fix things in our approach to strong training, so we both needed to let go of things and build something new, that’s why we needed someone from the outside.
And it really helped, it did. In the beginning of the summer we were much better, we were really communicating good, I could see improvements, we could see improvements. And then we built the programs, and we were a little late with the short one, because we had to change it three times because of the music…
Other dancers had that problem too this season: Madison Chock and Evan Bates changed their short dance three times, Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje decided to change it too, two weeks before Skate Canada…
Yes, of course. But me and Adri, being such a young ice dance team, we really needed to run-through the programs a lot, to get the timing together, the holds, the transitions, all the movements together, because… we started like yesterday. I mean, it’s not something that was easy for us. We were faster to get lifts and other things that were working, but in the very basic of ice dance, the compulsories, it took us longer. So it was like: Stepping back, stepping back, change again, change! And we were like: Really?
But why the change in the short dance music?
Our initial choice was a little too bluesy – and the judges really wanted to see a clear waltz. So we took the innovation too far, in a way. And, yes, that took us a little longer, so it started to get rough again.
And I knew this was the last thing we had to try, and it was still not working, so it was like a huge failure for me. It’s very hard to see that, in front of you. Like: “Saraaa, it’s not working!” [with the outright tone of a mechanical doll].
It was like: “It’s not good, this is not working”, “Oh well, we’ll fix it!”, “This is not working!”, “We’ll fix it!”… and to see that not happening…
But you finished the programs eventually, the short and the free, and the tango was actually a wonderful choice [their free dance for this season was set to “Vesper” by New Tango Orchestra and “Nostalgia” by Pasión Vega]…
It was great. That program was great. I feel very sorry for it… and also the one which is on youtube is like the worst we did, the worst one [the free dance they skated at the Souvenir Georges-Éthier 2015, in September 2015]. And we’d skated that program in practice really good, like really, really good, we thought it was going to be the second Picasso…
And also making the choreography with David [Wilson] was very special, a very special week, because he’s such a great person, and he always gave us that energy of: “Guys, you can do it!” He knew how to take our something special and mold it into something great. So it’s sad that we were not able to perform that program to what it really deserved.
At that particular competition everything seemed absolutely out of place.
It was a disaster. [she says that in a blink] Every single element is bad. And it’s sad that this is going to be there forever… I mean, we all have bad performances, but the bad part of that video is not about the performance, it’s about the meaning behind it, you know? It’s like: Yes, there is a problem here, people! [on a very serious tone] And it’s not about the program, it’s not about the elements, it goes way far…
So you had that in Québec, at the end of September, and you returned to Montreal…
Yes, I came back and, of course, my body broke, I got injured. We were supposed to go to Finlandia Trophy, and we missed it. The competitions were very close but we really wanted to go to Finland to practice, before going to Moscow and Bompard. So I got injured and it was like… These bones in the ankle, they rubbed too much, and a part of it got swollen and every time I was putting my skates I got like electric shocks.
In a way, it was my body telling me: Sara, you have to stop. Because it’s gonna kill you. All that pressure, the anxiety of not being able to… It was like: I want it, but I can’t have it. So, yes, it was really hard to make that decision, but I believe it was better to leave it at a point that we’re good, that you can finish in a good moment. And also with our career… I didn’t want to be ashamed of my career to the point that it made me quit. I wanted to take the decision because I felt it was right, I felt it was the right moment to end.
So, more or less, the decision was made during your injury, but the thought of giving up…
The thought of giving up was there from the season before. And this season was the last try.
What about the people behind you, your coaches? Were they aware of the situation? Of course they were aware…
Yes, they were very much aware.
Were they trying to glue you back together?
Yes, of course. They tried their best, and more, to make both of us team up. But, to a point… if you don’t want it, they cannot force you. It had to come from us. They can give us their experience, they can give us their guidance, but if we don’t make the decision to follow that guidance it’s never going to work. So, yes, for them it was hard too.
And they were the biggest believers in us. They were there every single day, through every single moment and tough times, just pushing us: “Guys, let’s go, let’s do it!”, and always thinking about everything, how to make us better. They were just thinking for our good, the whole time.
You were lucky to have them, actually – and you had them before becoming the coaching team of the moment…
Oh, yes. We were extremely happy and I will always be grateful to them for all that, because they totally saved us, and brought us to Sochi. We arrived in Montreal in a very hard moment, leaving our first coach [John Dunn], in London, completely out of shape, in December 2011…
Two years before the Olympics in Sochi…
Yes, it was really a short time, and we arrived there like two weeks before [2012] Europeans, something like that… A Spanish team, lost in Montreal, with two really weak programs, coming from a really bad performance at a Grand Prix in Paris – we thought that was the end, because we saw ourselves without a coach, and we were like: What will we going to do now? Are we ever going to make it till the Olympics? Are we foolish, are we naïve to just believe this is still possible?
So, in that scenario, they just took us in their hands and said: “Ok, guys, let’s start”. And, like with a messy wardrobe, they took everything out and they started putting back together, in order. So I felt that we connected really good and that I could always let them know what was going on, and they were always be willing to help, they were never indifferent…
Probably that’s the key to success in their case, that’s what makes them a great team of coaches: their involvement and that making you into believing you can do this…
Yes, like they do more than the work, they’re not only coaches. They’re also life coaches [she smiles]. There’s this new fashion of coaching in business right now, and Marie-France, Patch [Patrice] and Romain are a really good team. And being in Montreal and working with them, that was actually one of the reasons it took me so long to decide to [quit]… But, at the same time, it was also a part of the decision: we had the best team of coaches and still… [long pause here]
But were there any other factors than your different approach to training involved in making this decision? External factors, like financial problems, not being able to work…?
Well, there were always financial problems, we have been going through them since we started. Because we started when we were no one – no one didn’t even know what ice dance was in Spain – so it was not until two years, three years later that we started to get some scholarships, some recognition from the Government. So that was there, it was part of our journey, but we made it work with what we had. It was like: Ok, how can we make it work? But that was never a barrier for me, and also because I have my family supporting me…
For figure skating this is immensely important, to have your family sticking with you and showing you support every step of the way…
So much, so much. I would not be here without them. It would have been impossible. First, because of their support, their emotional support. Anytime I would call, my mom would pick up the phone, no matter the time difference. If I’d needed them, they would have been there, if I’d needed money, they would have made it work. And even my brother was putting money from his pocket… [she smiles] I have nothing else to ask from them. So all these together… With the best coaches and the best support, and still not moving forward…
Well, from the outside, you seemed to move forward, you and Adrià – that’s why so many people were like “Noooooo” when hearing about you going separate ways. To many, many people, you were something else in ice dancing…
Yeah, I know. [tears run down her cheeks] I wish I could have made it work, seriously…
After making it public, seeing all the reactions, I was overwhelmed. Like: Oh, my God, we mean so much to these people? We touched lives with what we did on the ice, and you don’t realize it until they just come and tell you: Sara, when I grow up I want to skate like you or things like that.
It was the hardest decision of my life and talking about it is always emotional. I had to choose between myself and my happiness, and the potential we had… Either way, I was losing something.
But heartbreaking as it was, I still think it was the best decision to make. And I think that every athlete goes through this at one point in their career, and you don’t know how to explain it, but you feel it inside, like something is missing, that fire that brings you to every practice, when you wake up and go: Today, I’m gonna nail my twizzles! Because I can! That drive, when it starts fading out, you can feel it inside, because you end up with no energy to fight for it, and it goes really slowly… And, at one point, you’re like: I can’t. I can’t do it anymore.
So you decided to come home to Madrid…
Yes.
And… now what?
Now what? I have no clue! You tell me! [we both laugh uncontrollably]
You’re home for how long? Two months, I think…
I don’t know. I don’t even know what my time is…
When I made the public announcement on facebook, of course I didn’t know how to explain 7 years of my life in a short time, and I didn’t know what was going to happen in a few weeks, I just wanted to let everyone know that Adri and I were not skating together anymore. That’s why maybe my message wasn’t clear for some people, because they understood it as if I was quitting skating. But, at that point, I was like: I don’t even know if I want to skate again… I couldn’t even make the choice, I wasn’t ready for that. Because something so big was ending, that I didn’t have the energy, I couldn’t see any further.
So I went back to Madrid, I was home for a few days, I tried to totally disconnect myself from the world, and be just with my mom, my dad, my brother, and celebrate my birthday with them. There were like 7 years that I didn’t celebrate with my family… [Sara turned 23 on November 3rd]
And, being there, I realized that I still wanted to put my skates on and go on the ice; I wasn’t done with skating, I was done with that team and that relationship on the ice, but not with the actual skating. I still have a lot to learn, I still want to keep skating, I love it so much, I’m not done with it. I don’t feel like I want to hang my skates and do something else…
But before that, everyone was like: “What do you want to do? And how are you feeling?” And at first I was: “I have no clue”. Then, I started: “Well, maybe I could look for a partner”. [she smiles] So that’s when I had the interview for “Marca” and I made public my intention to continue if I found a partner.
And how’s the partner-thing going…?
It’s not going very fast. We’re in the middle of the season, and, of course, it has to be someone that is willing to skate for Spain. That’s my idea…
Aren’t there any dancers available in Spain?
There are some, but little, there’s like a Novice. [she smiles] And, of course, I will be looking for someone of a higher level. Because if I’m going back, I would like to do the same, or better. That amount of effort has to be worth it. That’s why I made my decision, it was not worth it anymore for me. So I decided to quit – and now, if I go back, it has to be worth it. It can’t be just for fun. If I want to keep skating for fun, I’ll do it in Madrid, with my family… And with the winter in Spain… [she laughs]
So, your eyes are on an international partner, who will be willing to skate for Spain… That’s the plan.
Yes.
Do you have someone in mind?
I have no one… [And then she makes a joke, in a funny voice, as if she were speaking in a megaphone] “I make a public announcement, please: I’m looking for a tall, dark haired guy [she laughs heartily], muscleeees…” No, I’m joking. If only it were that easy… There are a lot of things to consider.
But are you doing an active research? Thinking about who might be?
I wasn’t able to be that active these days, since I was getting a lot of work with the organization of the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona… Still, my friends are getting in charge of it, and every time we see each other, there are a lot of jokes around me. [she smiles]
For example, there were the Worlds of Hockey in Madrid recently, and Spain was playing. Like the second league, I don’t know. And I was just going to the guys: “Guys, I need a partner!” [on a very bossy tone, and laughing at the same time] “Who’s changing the discipline?” And they were all like: “Aaaaaaah”, lacking the enthusiasm, of course. “Do we have to wear tights?” And I was like: “No, no, you can wear whatever you want”. …And they were: “Sara, I don’t know if I can pick you up. I’m good with the stick, but maybe with a girl I will freak out…” You know?
You have to look at the situation optimistically, because otherwise…
With humor, yes [she nods]. I just can’t go out there and cry: “I don’t have a partner…” No. I know that if I get one, I’ll make sure I’ll do my best. And if not, it’s ok. I have to accept that it might not happen. I just have to feel proud of what I achieved, and take that with me for the rest of my life, like that’s never going to disappear. And if I start something new, it will be new.
Of course, people will say: “But, you know, Sara, it will never be the same, it will never be the same as you and Adri…” Well, I don’t want it to be the same, you know? Of course, it will never be the same, and I want to keep it like that. Hurtado/Diaz was Hurtado/Diaz.
I wonder what it will work with Hurtado…
[Laughing]. I don’t know. I have no clue.
But for sure I will have to wait until the end of the season, minimum, because that’s when people move around more. And, in a way, it’s not the best season to do that, because it’s the pre-pre-Olympic season and it’s kind of tight. But, you know, I’ll give myself until June, maybe July… And if next season is starting and I found no one, I’ll have to see if it’s over for me, because I cannot be waiting forever.
You mentioned Olympics – and I need to ask you that: are you thinking about 2018 PyeongChang?
Of course, we all are thinking about the Olympics, yes. It will be really tight – like really, really tight – to get the nationality and everything, but, yes, I am thinking about it.
At this point, you’re involved in the Grand Prix Final and that is keeping you somehow connected with the competition and the skating world altogether…
Yeah, I’m really glad that I get to do that.

Sara, congratulating Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov on their win in the pairs event at 2015 Grand Prix Final

One of Sara’s duties in Barcelona was interviewing the winners in the Kiss and Cry – and she did that with passion and enthusiasm, asking Yuzuru Hanyu, among other things, how come he was that confident during performances. “How do you train that solid confidence? Do you eat it? Where do you find it? Where should I buy it?”, she asked with a smile. Yuzuru laughed, and answered in all honesty: “I don’t have any idea. I want to get some too… Because I was really, really nervous here, I felt a heavy pressure today”. And then to the audience: “Please, tell me! How do I get confidence?”

Interviewing Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, the winners of the ice dancing event at 2015 Grand Prix Final in Barcelona
Do you feel any regrets when seeing your former colleagues, your friends maybe, on the ice?
No regrets, it’s more nostalgia than regret. It’s just me seeing: “Oooh… I wish I were there, I wish I could have skated…”
But do you keep skating, are you going regularly to an ice rink?
Well, this week was, more or less, like a rollercoaster, and since I arrived in Barcelona I wasn’t able to skate much. Because I was here, and the ice rink is on the other side [of the city]…
You could just use the one in front of you when commentating, the Grand Prix Final ice rink…
[Smiling] I do have my skates with me, actually…
So you won’t be skating in the GPF gala, like last year?
No, no.
And you won’t be skating with Javier Fernandez either…
[Laughing] Noooo… But my friends are asking me: “Can you not ask Javi?” And I’m like: “Come on! He’s too good at what he does to make him switch…”
[Laughing] But you did skate together a couple of weeks ago, during a media event promoting the Grand Prix Final…
Yeah, and he was like: “Oh, I know the rumba, let’s do the rumba!” And I was: “Ok, come on, Javi, let’s do it…” And he was skating with me and was like: “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!”. It was really funny.
After GPF, you’ll be back in Madrid…
Yes, I have to do papers, because in February I’ll go back to University. I’ll be in my second year, studying Journalism and Audiovisual Communication. This is like coming back to myself… And I’m also helping the club [Majadahonda] in Madrid with the kids, giving them lessons, and I’ll do a seminar for everyone that wants to come to Spain [the seminar took place at the end of December 2015]. But coaching is a temporary thing, it’s not something I would like to do as a daily job. Yes, I see myself helping, doing some choreography, seminars, stroking classes, but not every day. Once a week, maybe twice…
Sara, if it’s something you’d like your fans to know, feel free to pass them the message through Inside Skating…
I want them to know that I’m forever grateful for all the support we had since the very beginning, since we were no one, and people just liked our personalities. Also, don’t be sad that is over – and even though it’s something natural in all human beings, please, don’t try to look for the guilt of this, there’s not a guilty one, not him, not me, it was the combination of the two.
Do you want them to keep the faith in your coming back?
Oh, yes, I would love to. And if the moment comes and Adri and I both come back in our separate careers, I will ask them as a favor not to judge. To give us the chance to start over. To look at us with fresh eyes, and not with our past stories behind. To let us reach them again, even if with different partners.