It was definitely a goal of mine. But I haven't had the results in the last few weeks, so I'm going to focus on staying in the top three and improving my skiing. |
It's always good to have a strong team that supports you and backs you up and is getting those results besides you so you don't feel like the entire team rests on you. I think it's a very good thing that our whole team is doing well. |
It's definitely weird going from the hospital bed to the start gate. But it's ski racing. I've done it my whole life. I wasn't worried that I'd forgotten anything. |
It's definitely weird to go from the hospital bed to the start gate. |
It's like his upper body is detached from his lower body. His upper body is just crazy. It's all over the map. But what his lower body does is incredible. He's always going straight down the fall line. It's by far the straightest line I've ever seen. |
It's sweet. I've changed my equipment. I'm not surprised because I grew up skiing slalom. I just fell off the map for a while because of the speed races. It's always good to add another disciple you can do well at. |
Last time in Salt Lake, they did such a good job organizing, and everyone was excited. You could just feel in the air, it was excitement. I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I don't feel like it's exciting. |
Last year I had a lot of top-three results, but we didn't really get any prizes, just money, so this is really awesome. She's a little ornery, but she's cool. |
My back, I?m in a lot of pain. I hope so. |
Not racing is not an option. I didn't work my whole life to say, 'Maybe next time. |
Pain was something I was gonna take no matter what. It was just a matter of if my body could physically withstand the forces of the speed. |
She put me under her wing when I came onto the team. I met her when I was nine years old, and she gave me the motivation and kind of the goal to be in the Olympics and win an Olympic gold medal. |
She was incredible, she spent the whole night with me until 10 o'clock. She cried with me. She said she knew I can do it, that I have to be positive and get back out there as soon as I can. She knew as soon as I got back out there, I'd have a medal. Just not today, I guess. |
Slalom skiing is going really well so it made up for my downhill. I have a lot of confidence in my slalom. I trust my skis, trust myself and it's showing in my races. I skied aggressive in the slalom, taking chances and I was really fast so I'm happy about today. |
That's the thing I'm worried about. |