The lesson you learn is that it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is believing in yourself, kicking out of the start gate and leaving everything else behind. |
The World Cup is sort of what we do. The Olympics are sort of a bonus. |
They are not convinced I'm American; they think I'm Italian. |
To me the Olympic spirit embodies the magic of competition, hard work and coming to a point in your career when you're around the best athletes in the world, and having the whole world watching. |
We always are training in bad weather and I grew up skiing in powder. |
We had high expectations. Everyone wants to shoot for the moon. You'll end up in the stars, anyway. |
We like to be fun, we like to keep it light. It was more like a fun thing than a ritual. |
We will use this as an opportunity to show the world what we do. We like to show everyone that skiing rocks. |
We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go. |