(Kramer) was sitting on a bench right across from me. After the fourth lap I saw him get up, walk away, sort of give up. I liked seeing that. |
Chad hasn't been drunk at practice. There are times when he goes out and celebrates and has fun when he competes well. |
Chad's pair is not super strong, but that's good. He can focus on his own race. |
Conditions were tough. And when they're tough, it comes down to willpower ? who wants it most ? and that is what he said before he came off the ice (after his final warm-up). |
For a rookie, he did pretty good with a gold, silver and bronze. I think he learned a ton. |
He couldn't pop off it because it wasn't stable. We figured it out last night and worked it out. We should have fixed that skate (before the 1,500). We made a big mistake. |
He has been hopeless and helpless. It was just so hard to see as a coach. |
He was down and out. I tried to help him, but there's only so much a coach can do. |
He's an emotional guy. But I don't think he understood why this was happening. He was a little thrown off that he was like this ? like he didn't know himself. ... But we were positive and tried to reinforce the things that we had talked about. |
He's definitely going to be able to get on the podium again. |
He's going to be better in four years than he is now. He's still learning. He's still not done. |
He's going to get mad and he'll be more determined. |
He's learned a lot about the sport in the last two years. The next Olympics are going to be even better than this one. |
I cried my eyes out. That was typical Derek. He stepped up and skated a very good race when he had to. To come through like that, he's just a champion. |
I remember how Bob skated very, very bad in Salt Lake. I know his parents well, and I remember hugging his mom for about 10 minutes when she was crying, having to console her. So if it's not Chad, then I'm happy for him to win. |